Nico Alba — Technical Writer / Documentation Engineer



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GitHub • 2nd September 2025

Tutorial: Use Pyth price feeds on Solana with Anchor

End-to-end tutorial takes you from a blank repo to a working Anchor program on Solana devnet that reads a Pyth price feed.
GitHub • 25th August 2025

Solana smart contract

A minimal Solana onchain program built in Anchor, running against a local single-node validator. ( + docs)
19th August 2025

RAG chatbot

A RAG chatbot with source citations, powered by Ollama + Chroma. Streamlit front end and FastAPI back end.
GitHub • 7th August 2025

GenAI for doc automation/acceleration

A topic that explores how generative AI prompts can be used to automate and accelerate doc creation.
GitHub • 30th July 2025

Sphinx + reST demo

A simple Sphinx doc site written entirely in reStructuredText.
GitHub • 6th August 2025

Jupyter Notebook: Decoding messages with Python

A series of Python-based cryptography exercises, built and tested in a Jupyter Notebook.
GitHub • 26th July 2025

API endpoint lister

Simple Python script that reads a YAML file and writes the API endpoints to a Markdown file.
GitHub • 11th July 2025

Python web3 app

Vibe coding a Python web3 app that queries the blockchain.
GitHub • 20th June 2025

Review of Kubernetes OS tutorial

I reviewed, edited, and uplifted a tutorial on the Kubernetes open-source docs.
11th September 2023

Sample doc site

Sample static doc site generated with MkDocs, including an OpenAPI spec I created from scratch and API docs generated with Redocly; all served with GitHub pages.
Markdown indentation • 8th September 2023

Markdown indentation

Topic I wrote on Markdown indentation standards for our style guide.
Therapy Bot • 20th April 2020

Basic JS web app + SDK doc

JS app + SDK doc I did for a class on basic programming for writers.
Integrating the Tactical Datacenter • 23rd January 2020

Integrating the Tactical Datacenter

Guidance for integrating the extended storage hardware in Microsoft Azure's Tactical Datacenter.
Livefyre + Adobe Experience Manager • 20th February 2019

Livefyre + Adobe Experience Manager integration doc

Cross-solution topic I created from scratch while working at Adobe.
Livefyre with Adobe Target • 19th February 2019

Use Livefyre with Adobe Target

Doc on using Livefyre with Adobe Target.
Custom Call-to-Action Button • 18th February 2019

Custom Call-to-Action Button

Topic I created from scratch while working at Adobe.
GDPR Demo • 17th February 2019

GDPR Demo for Adobe Social

Small demo I made with SnagIt for submitting GDPR requests in Adobe Social.
Venmo User Guide • 30th November 2015

Venmo User Guide

Sample indexed user guide I created for a Technical Writing Seminar at UC, Riverside.
Activations & Returns • 13th January 2015

Activations & Returns

Activation & Returns instructions for DWP customers. Shipped out with every phone that goes out.
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