I don’t talk about my day job all that often. What I’m doing currently is software development – specifically, I write tools and create infrastructure for a documentation team. This ranges from writing deployment pipelines and build scripts to writing extensions for the writing software we use, to building out sites and wrangling server configurations. I enjoy it, and I like that the role is broad, where what exactly I’m working on can vary a lot from day to day, depending on what needs to take priority. Prior to my current role, however, I was a technical writer – one of the folks writing the docs, and I wanted to talk about that a bit, as I think it’s a great role that I think a lot of folks might overlook.
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