Senior technical author

Technical Writing Bath, England, United Kingdom

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Senior Technical Author with 30+ years of experience producing, managing, and leading high-impact technical documentation. Former roles include Lead Technical Writer at a startup and at a global IT firm where I grew the documentation team from one to 30+ writers, established docs-as-code practices, created the company style guide, and delivered major improvements in documentation quality, tooling, and workflow automation.

Extensive background in developer-focused documentation, platform/infrastructure technologies (Linux, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, VMware, AI, automation, standards compliance, security), and modern documentation tooling (Markdown, Git, Sphinx, CI, diagrams-as-code). Adept at mentoring writers, improving processes, and driving consistent documentation across multiple product teams.

Before moving into software documentation, spent over a decade in technology publishing as an editor, launching and running several magazines. This polished my writing, communication, planning, and user-centric content design skills.

Now seeking roles where I can strengthen documentation strategy, improve efficiency and quality, guide teams, and help deliver exceptional developer and product documentation.

Expectations

I want a position where I can have a meaningful impact on the quality and consistency of documentation, collaborate closely with engineering teams, and continue developing modern docs-as-code practices that make teams more efficient. Ideally this would be within a company that values documentation as a critical part of the product.