An Engineer's Field Guide to Great Technical Writing

Docs for Devs: An Engineer’s Field Guide to Technical Writing can be found here.

Jared worked as a technical writer at Google for more than 14 years and recently transitioned to Waymo, the self-driving car company spun out under the Alphabet umbrella. You can find him on Twitter and LinkedIn.

Zachary has been a technical writer at GitHub and the Linux Foundation, and now works as a staff technical writer at Stripe. You can find all her online accounts at her website.

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