Developer experience consultant and technical writer

Frances Elliott

Developer experience consultant, particularly specialized in API onboarding, and technical writer. Former software dev project management. I use this space to reflect personally on my work challenges and accomplishments.

Some new roles

I’ve taken on some new roles in my team recently:

Building the tools I document

I’ve come a long way as a self-taught developer. My software dev team is shorthanded at the moment, and the lead architect pinged me recently and said some...

Studying machine learning through Coursera

Since I document tech that involves machine learning and natural language processing, I’ve been meaning for a while to take Coursera’s Machine Learning cou...

My first REST API documentation

I’ve documented low-level hardware APIs, but never REST APIs – I learned a ton working in Swagger for a Watson service API. Looking back, it breaks down into...

Good news (and bad news for this blog)

The good news is, I got a new job that I really like! I’m now working as an information developer for IBM Watson; the technology is really interesting.