Mike Jang's professional accomplishments, 2025

I had a marvelous 2025. Here’s what I’m proud of:

My work with open source

In January, I led the open sourcing of the NGINX documentation repository. With lots of help, I learned “tricks” like masking commits and PII. I learned what lawyers, security engineers, and senior managers hope for – and worry about with open source.

Write the Docs Writing Day Hackathon

In May, we made it work with a hackathon at Write the Docs NA (Portland). In one day (Writing Day), we got 27 contributions!

Spoke at FOSSY

In August, at the Free and Open Source Software conference (https://2025.fossy.us/), I spoke about our lessons learned and how others can open source their software.

How I used customer feedback to create and enhance docs

I also set up the majority of documentation for a newer product, NGINX One Console. I got the chance to watch as customers tried to go through our training for that product, and watched their struggles. I used those lessons to enhance our Get started guide. I used related lessons to help set up a sequence of REST calls that our users asked for (That’s use case docs, not just API reference info).

Spoke at All Things Open

In October, inspired by work on a 5000 line script, I spoke about “Content Design, the Prequel” at the All Things Open conference. TLDR: it’s how we can bring the lessons of UX content design to the command line.

Special moment

At the All Things Open conference, someone recognized my name from a previous book on the Red Hat Certified Engineer exam.

He told me that my book helped him pass the exam and get a better job. He said it changed his life, and asked to give me a hug.

At that moment, I felt like I had done something significant with my work.

AI Work in Progress

Over the past couple of months, I’ve been working on an AI Agent for UX Content Design. The results are promising, and I hope to report more on this after 2026!