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2025-11-05-tether-technical-documentation-lead-cover-letter

Wednesday, November 5th, 2025

Dear Tether Hiring Team,

I'm applying for the Technical Documentation Lead role because Tether is pioneering the global financial revolution I want to help communicate to the world. Your partnerships with cities, tokenization of real-world assets, and commitment to transparency represent exactly the kind of transformation that requires exceptional documentation to reach its full potential.

I'm wired to care deeply about documentation. I started my career as a Software Engineer at Google Cloud from 2015 to 2019, leading a small team where documentation was foundational to everything we did. Since then, I've developed a framework for what I call "truth management": the discipline of helping organizations document and evolve the shared operational knowledge that enables aligned action. This philosophy drives everything I do.

Why I'm a Fit​

I'm Passionate About Documentation as a Craft​

I love educating people. I love being very, very clear with my communication. I believe great documentation is what separates products that scale from products that struggle.

I've open-sourced my approach to truth management because I believe remote teams need to document their operational knowledge systematically to succeed at scale. To show you how seriously I take documentation: I've deeply documented my own faith walk (not to impose my beliefs, but to demonstrate how detailed I can get when documenting what matters).

I've practiced and helped teams experience the benefits of high quality documentation across diverse domains:

  • Built a youth nonprofit that trained thousands globally. Documentation and clear guides were essential to scaling impact. Named Forbes 30 Under 30 for this work.
  • Grew Gitcoin Passport from 200,000 to 1M users through strategic communications that required translating complex Sybil resistance concepts into documentation developers could understand and use.
  • Organized Edge City Denver 2024—working with Vitalik Buterin's early experiments in pop-up cities. Success required clear documentation for each experiment, e.g. one with 3,000+ attendees for one week, another with 500+ attendees across two weeks.

I Have the Technical Chops​

I spent four years at Google Cloud developing in Node.js and leading a small engineering team. Documentation was one of the first things I learned to master because you can't lead effectively without it.

I'm comfortable:

  • Reading code across different programming languages
  • Working with Git and Markdown (I use them daily)
  • Developing proof-of-concept applications and example snippets
  • Understanding robust, modular codebases and translating them into clear documentation

I recently graduated top of my class from Gauntlet AI, an AI-first coding bootcamp, which means I'm current with modern development practices and can proactively keep pace with rapid development teams.

I'm Passionate About Open Source​

I've worked extensively with open-source technologies throughout my career. One of my mentors is Travis Oliphant, who wrote some of the most popular open-source libraries in the world in the Python ecosystem (NumPy, SciPy). I understand the community dynamics, the importance of clear documentation for adoption, and how to stay aware of questions and issues faced by developers.

I believe great documentation is what makes open-source projects accessible. Bad documentation is what kills adoption. I want to ensure Tether's open-source projects and platform products have documentation that empowers developers worldwide.

I'm Excited About Tether's Mission Beyond USDT​

What really excites me about Tether is the full vision:

Tether Finance: USDT is trusted by hundreds of millions. That level of adoption requires documentation that works across cultures and technical skill levels.

Tether's City Partnerships: I'm deeply interested in the intersection of urban development and crypto. I believe crypto-integrated cities will be the next Silicon Valleys. As I mentioned, I've played a meaningful role in Vitalik Buterin's early pop-up city experiments. Tether's governance partnerships with cities represent the future I want to help document and communicate.

Tether Education: Democratizing digital learning aligns perfectly with my life's work around democratizing human flourishing. I want to help document the tools that empower people to thrive in the digital economy.

I Thrive in Remote, Fast-Paced Environments​

I've worked with globally distributed teams throughout my career. I know how to collaborate remotely, communicate asynchronously, and maintain documentation that keeps distributed teams aligned despite timezone differences.

I can proactively update documentation to match rapid development pace. I can juggle multiple projects simultaneously. I can stay aware of community questions and systematically improve documentation to support them better.

My Commitment​

I see this role as an entry point where I can excel immediately while gradually expanding my impact with Tether over time. I know I can do more than just write documentation, but I also know that exceptional documentation is foundational to everything Tether is building.

I want to lead documentation efforts across all Tether products. I want to develop proof-of-concept applications and example snippets that make your open-source projects accessible to developers worldwide. I want to proactively improve documentation so your community faces fewer barriers to building with Tether's technologies.

Most importantly, I want to bring my truth management framework to bear on helping Tether document the financial revolution you're pioneering—from USDT to city partnerships to sustainable Bitcoin mining to democratized education.

I'd love to discuss how my technical background, my passion for documentation as a craft, and my framework for systematically documenting organizational knowledge can help Tether achieve its mission.

Thank you for your consideration.

Gary Sheng