Season of Docs 2020 Proposal for Apache Flink (Vivin)

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Below is a project proposal from a technical writer (bcc'd) who wants to
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proposal and ensure that you have a mentor to work with the technical
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The deadline for project selections is July 31, 2020 at 20:00 UTC. For
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Title: Restructure Table API & SQL Documentation Project length: Long
running (5 months)
Writer information *Name:* Vivin
*Email:* [hidden email]
*Résumé/CV:*
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TLRqFhgMWhAi1oMfDz0cE0EvT6sJdQu9/view?usp=sharing
*Additional information:* To be honest, I am new to technical
documentation. However, my motivation and enthusiasm have been something
that has helped me touch heights which are generally considered to be
challenging. To instantiate my claim, I did my undergraduate in Mechanical
Engineering from NIT Surathkal and despite the rigorous curriculum, I
managed to complete my degree in 7 semesters so that I could take
fundamental CS courses like Operating systems, Computer architecture, Data
structures and algorithms, Compiler design and discrete math. My coding
journey began two years back when I interned at IIT Madras. The project was
numerical modeling of the asymmetry of the lung using Monte Carlo
simulations to model viral disease spread. It was a challenge for me as I
had to learn FORTRAN in a span of one week and finally completed the entire
project successfully in six weeks. There has been no looking back since
then. This experience helped me secure an internship last year summer at a
start-up where I got to scrape data using scrappy and process the same
using Kafka and Flink to build a database with billions of entries of IP
data in the world and visualize the flow of data streams using Grafana and
Prometheus. I also created Flink jobs to validate valid IP requests.The
power of Flink was something which amazed me a lot. I also realized how
stream processing had changed the development world from earlier ETL
processing. This is where I fell in love with open source technology. Right
now, I am working for Syslog-ng under GSoC(Google Summer of Code) and it
has been a great journey so far. With this background, I would like to
explore technical documentation which I believe is an incredible skill when
it comes to communicating technology in the most efficient manner.
Project Description I went through FLIP 60 forum and the discussion thread
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=127405685.
I would like to work on restructuring the existing structure into the
detailed and exhaustive structure mentioned in the link above.
Having worked on two projects involving Flink in my previous internship, I
understand the working of Flink and the intricacies involved and the
problems faced as a first time user. I am also willing to learn whatever
necessary and give my best {{EXTRA16}} {{EXTRA17}}