2025-11-05-tether-nodejs-and-documentation-experience
Tuesday, November 5th, 2025
Node.js Development Experience
I have extensive Node.js development experience. TypeScript and JavaScript have been my primary coding languages throughout my career, and I'm quite familiar with modern development environments.
I started my career as a Software Engineer at Google Cloud from 2015 to 2019, where I led a small team working on Cloud SQL. During this time, I used Node.js regularly as a part of Angular 1 and 2 development.
More recently, I graduated top of my class from Gauntlet AI, an AI-first coding bootcamp, which brought me back into active development with modern tools. I'm loving modern Node.js and TypeScript environments, especially with tools like Cursor and Claude that enable rapid, high-quality development, and fine grain control of source control using natural language.
I elaborate more on my technical background in my cover letter, but the short version is: I'm comfortable reading code across different programming languages, developing proof-of-concept applications, and working with robust, modular codebases.
Technical Documentation Experience
Technical documentation, tutorials, courses, and self-explanatory guides are exactly my zone of genius. I elaborate a bit in my cover letter, but here are specific examples:
Professional Documentation
Gitcoin Passport (Lead Product Marketer): I contributed heavily to the documentation that helped grow the platform from 200,000 to 1M users. The documentation needed to make complex Sybil resistance concepts accessible to developers.
- Documentation: https://support.passport.xyz/passport-knowledge-base
Google Cloud SQL (Software Engineering Lead): I heavily contributed to the documentation for Cloud SQL as part of my role leading a small engineering team. Documentation was foundational to everything we did.
- Documentation: https://docs.cloud.google.com/sql/docs/introduction
Airchat (Advisor and Power User): I wrote comprehensive documentation for Naval Ravikant's now-defunct voice-first social network startup. This was a living guide that helped onboard hundreds of early users.
- Documentation: https://garysbrain.notion.site/Getting-started-with-the-new-Airchat-a-living-guide-April-2024-844cd99c2f9749738ca096dcd37c83dc
Event Documentation
ZuConnect Istanbul 2023: I created comprehensive FAQ documentation that everyone was a huge fan of. It massively reduced support time for the event staff because everything was self-explanatory.
- Documentation: https://garysbrain.notion.site/ZuConnect-Istanbul-2023-FAQ-c6104752aa7e42078e822ac0c240ea43
Edge City Denver 2024: I created detailed documentation that made it easy for 3,000+ attendees to navigate this complex multi-room, multi-venue event over seven days. Clear documentation was essential to the 4.6/5 satisfaction rating we achieved.
Personal Projects
Faith Walk Documentation: As I mentioned in my cover letter, I've heavily documented my faith walk in a way I've never seen done before. I built a custom wrapper for that documentation and can easily build similar custom documentation solutions for Tether.
- Documentation: https://www.garysheng.com/faithwalk?file=README.md
Truth Management Framework: I've documented my framework for organizational knowledge management, treating it like source code with version control.
- Documentation: https://github.com/garysheng/truth-management/blob/main/why-truth-management-matters.md
Why This Matters for Tether
The pattern across all these examples is the same: I believe great documentation is what enables ambitious visions to scale. Whether it's open-source projects, complex events, or organizational knowledge, I know how to create documentation that reduces support burden, empowers users, and drives adoption.
I would love the opportunity to write the documentation for Tether across all your product lines. This is exactly the kind of work I'm wired to excel at.