Kalyan Ponnekanti
I’m a technical writer and also manage a team of technical writers. I mostly write programmer’s reference manual, integration guides, and developer documentation. I work for Titaniam, Inc. in the cybersecurity domain. I am in charge of product documentation, testing product builds, and support proof-of-concept deployments for customers.
What do I like doing?
- troubleshooting issues (technical writer tools, publishing flows, product installation and deployments)
- learning new authoring and publishing flows (currently we have implemented the authoring and publishing workflows in ReST > PDF, ReST > HTML)
- exploring programming languages (currently learning python)
- learning about new business models (a huge fan of Shark Tank)
- learning about technology (blockchain, ADAS, cryptography)
What is this blog about?
- Serves as a personal knowledge base
- Reflects my learnings from work
- Records troubleshooting topics
- Curates remote technical writing jobs
- Curates first issue documentation requests on GitHub
Education
- I am Masters in Electronics engineering from Cardiff University.
- I also earned a baker’s hat.
Domains where I have worked as a technical writer
- Semiconductors
- embedded processors (ARC processors), hardware accelerators for cryptography algorithms compiler tool chains, secure processor, side-channel protection hardware)
- Communication hardware (set-top box software and hardware)
- Software
- mobile device management
- enterprise security (embedded entitlements management, single sign-on, identity management)
- Cybersecurity
- protecting Elasticsearch and Opensearch indexes at rest
- tokenization
- fileshare proxies
- S3 bucket proxies
What am I most passionate about?
- Cooking
- Reading fiction
What is on my reading list?
- Celtic Myths
- Best Short Stories in Telugu
- Collection of 50 Greatest Short Stories (Edgar Allen Poe, O’ Henry, Kate Upton, …)
- Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman
What URLs do I frequently read?
- www.techcrunch.com
- www.idratherbewriting.com