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.

Lookback on DX Onboarding teardown

When I take on a new client, I like to take advantage of my fresh eyes to walk through the onboarding steps a developer takes to get to Hello World and/or fi...

Docs-first tip - test prerelease Github packages

I’m all about a docs-first approach – for example, in the latest SDK domain-model overhaul I participated in, I was able to contribute to the API’s call sign...

Developer onboarding - Docker vs Contentful CLI

Recently, I’ve been rethinking developer onboarding for my client because of a domain-model/UX overhaul of the API & corresponding online app. I’ve been ...

Fun with a newish devrel team and the pivot to b2dev

I’m embedded in a newish (~1 years old) devrel team as the sole dev docs writer with my latest client, and I have to say, it’s a lot of fun! Here are some of...

Spearheaded my first docs as code

I can finally say that I’ve led a docs as code initiative! It took buy-in from the engineering manager, technical elbow-grease, and a helpful DevOps lead, bu...