Daniel Afolabi

Product Engineer

Seattle, Washington, United States8 yrs 3 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Senior Technical Writer with strong UX expertise.
  • Led documentation for major AWS launches.
  • Developed innovative content strategies across industries.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Technical Writer with expertise in Cloud Computing and User Experience.

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Skills

Core Skills

Technical WritingContent StrategyAcademic WritingUser ExperienceSoftware Engineering

Other Skills

DocumentationAutomationCompetitive AnalysisMentoringArgument MappingWriting StrategyFeedback FacilitationUser ResearchContent PrinciplesSoftware DevelopmentCross-Functional CollaborationJavaCSwiftScience Journalism

About

Senior technical writer with demonstrated experience in UX and content strategy. Graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University with a degree in philosophy and minors in computer science, cognitive science, and French language and culture. Interested in philosophy and its interdisciplinary value in viewing and framing approaches to technology, human cognition, and language. Former varsity student-athlete and avid trivia aficionado. I love living at the intersection wherever it exists: humanities and STEM, academia and industry, athleticism and scholarship, theory and application.

Experience

8 yrs 3 mos
Total Experience
3 yrs 9 mos
Average Tenure
9 mos
Current Experience

Netflix

Senior Technical Writer & Content Designer

Jul 2025Present · 9 mos · Greater Seattle Area · Remote

Amazon web services (aws)

3 roles

Senior Technical Writer (Technical Content Experience)

Promoted

Oct 2023Jun 2025 · 1 yr 8 mos · Greater Seattle Area

  • Developed content for Governance, Operations, Security, IAM (GOSI) Docs
  • Led end-to-end documentation initiatives for pivotal AWS launches, including re:Inforce and re:Invent, delivering content for cloud monitoring, resource governance, and organizational policy enforcement. Collaborated with principal-level stakeholders across product, UX, and engineering
  • Drove automation initiatives that reduced documentation maintenance, leveraging engineering metadata to automate rule descriptions, region availability, and console content across 800+ managed rules and 500+ resource types
  • Ran competitive analyses, internal audits, and deep dives to improve documentation, including a scenario-driven content strategy refactor that focused on the top jobs-to-be-done
  • Mentored junior writers, developed training materials, and led interns through end-to-end project ownership
Content StrategyDocumentationAutomationCompetitive AnalysisMentoringTechnical Writing

Technical Writer II

Jun 2021Sep 2023 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Greater Seattle Area

  • Content owner for AWS Organizations and AWS Config

Technical Writer

Jul 2020Jun 2021 · 11 mos · Greater Seattle Area

  • Content owner for AWS Config

Airbnb

Product Content Strategy

Jun 2019Sep 2019 · 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Canonical standards: Started with 8+ variants in product and used a competitive survey
  • of 18+ businesses to create a standard for signup/login with documented decisions that show sensitivity to the user and awareness of the team's business goals
  • User research: Ran a study from beginning to end which culminated in a presentation deck with key takeaways and recommendations for the team’s content strategy
  • Foundational resources: Other deliverables include content principles, terms list, localization guide, and a formulation of high-level problems, best practices, and areas of opportunity

Facebook

Software Engineer

Jun 2018Aug 2018 · 2 mos · Greater New York City Area

  • Shipped an interactive “Recommendation Chaining” feature that suggests additional pages for a user to recommend after they have left a recommendation
  • Worked cross-functionally with engineering, design, and product management during the global launch of Facebook Recommendations
User ResearchContent PrinciplesCompetitive AnalysisContent StrategyUser Experience

Princeton university

2 roles

Writing Center | Leadership

Promoted

May 2018May 2020 · 2 yrs

  • Developed strategies to position an argument within an academic debate, substantiate and organize claims, and purposefully integrate a variety of sources
  • Designed and executed initiatives to support writing across the disciplines on campus; past initiatives included:
  • Organized writing “Kickstarters” in Princeton’s residential colleges
  • Ran feedback “Extravaganzas” with Writing Seminar faculty
  • Reviewed scientific abstracts for Princeton Research Day
  • Hosted collaborative Zoom-based “Virtual Writing Labs”
  • Featured Writing Fellows through “Spotlights” on social media
  • Launched the “Thesis Selfie” campaign
  • Assisted in the recruitment and hiring process for new fellows
Argument MappingWriting StrategyFeedback FacilitationAcademic WritingContent Strategy

Writing Center | Fellow

Sep 2017May 2018 · 8 mos

  • Led 50-minute one-on-one conferences for various stages of the writing process: brainstorming ideas, developing a thesis, structuring an argument, and/or revising a draft
  • Trained to apply the writing lexicon (thesis, motive, structure, keywords, methodology, evidence/data, analysis, source use) to a range of disciplines including the humanities, the social sciences, and STEM
  • Filed detailed reports for each student

Facebook

Software Engineer

Jun 2017Aug 2017 · 2 mos · Menlo Park, California

  • Created an independent music-playing app from the ground up using the Spotify API and Parse as the back end
  • Project selected by management at final prototype forum and our team was granted a private meeting with CEO Mark Zuckerberg
Software DevelopmentCross-Functional CollaborationSoftware Engineering

Education

Princeton University

Bachelor's degree

Jan 2016Jan 2020

Purdue University

Dual-enrollment

Jan 2015Jan 2016

West Lafayette Jr/Sr High School

Academic Honors Diploma

Jan 2012Jan 2016

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