David Herbert

David Herbert

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Frontend Engineer | Technical Writer | JavaScript | React | Next.js
Lagos, Nigeria

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  • Upside
    Technical Writer (Contract)
    Upside
    Oct 2025 - Current (8 months)
    Created documentation for Enthusiast, Upside's AI-powered agentic toolkit for e-commerce, focused on frictionless onboarding and clarity. Created customer-facing and developer-facing content for Enthusiast, and translated complex engineering topics into clear, insightful content that supports our technical audience and open-source community.
  • C
    Senior Technical Writer
    ConfigCat
    Jul 2023 - Aug 2025 (2 years 2 months)
    Built the ConfigCat API documentation portal from the ground up using Docusaurus, leading to the reduction of developer onboarding time, customer service inquiries, and a 4.8/5 customer trust rating on TrustPilot. Drove creation of customer-facing content, including API documentation, walkthrough guides, release notes, and blog posts for ConfigCat's global user base, leading to first-page Google ranking and 35.6% growth in organic traffic from developer communities. Improved existing documentation on integrating ConfigCat with other third-party tools and utilizing their SDKs in various languages to deploy feature releases and software updates. Responsible for reviewing freelance authors' submissions for technical accuracy, grammar errors, a
  • CoderPad
    Technical Writer
    CoderPad
    Oct 2021 - Mar 2022 (6 months)
    Developed interactive frontend coding challenges called “Tiny Interviews” to facilitate assessing candidates' real skills during interviews, with corresponding validation tests for immediate feedback, driving greater interest from leading enterprises like Spotify, Shopify, and Netflix. Scaled the blog engagement by contributing SEO-friendly technical articles on JavaScript, React, and CSS, growing the community of readers from 55,000 to over 110,000+ developers, and enhancing community engagement.
  • LogRocket
    Technical Writer (Freelance)
    LogRocket
    Nov 2020 - Sep 2021 (11 months)
    Authored several blog posts on modern web development practices for LogRocket's developer community, which enhanced code reusability significantly across various development teams, contributing to more maintainable and efficient codebases. Developed and executed a sound content strategy for the LogRocket blog, focusing on JavaScript best practices, leading to first-page ranking on Google.
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    Technical Writer & Reviewer
    ContentLab
    Oct 2020 - Oct 2021 (1 year 1 month)
    Authored over 50+ high-performing articles, whitepapers, and guides that boosted software adoption of several enterprise clients, SaaS products, and B2B services like Mattermost, CircleCi, Revenuecat, etc., leading to a significant increase in customer acquisition. Collaborated with Product, Engineering, and Design teams from client companies and organizations to translate complex technical concepts into clear, accessible documentation to optimize user engagement and product adoption. Reviewed freelance authors' submissions for technical accuracy, grammar errors, and possible improvements.
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    Frontend Engineer
    Spowse
    Jan 2020 - Oct 2021 (1 year 10 months)
    Developed and implemented user-friendly front-end interface for a black singles dating app, with features aimed at sparking honest conversations, serving over 10,000 users across multiple venues in the UK. Spearheaded the redesign and integration of React.js into the company's web application, transforming the template-based design into a modern, dynamic interface that significantly improved performance, scalability, and user experience. Diagnosed and resolved a critical issue in the calculation of user rating and memory leaks introduced by poor use of React Hooks, reducing average wait times and significantly improving user experience, leading to increased user activity and customer satisfaction.