Portia Burton has hosted 10 Episodes.
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Episode 10: Mike Jang
May 22nd, 2022 | Season 1 | 34 mins 17 secs
In this episode, Mike shares his personal journal on how he got started in technical writing and how he spends his time planning and evangelizing. He also shares ideas on how to be a leader as a technical writer, all the different techniques he uses, and how to be a part of the community and give back to the community.
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Episode 9: Zachary Corleissen
May 8th, 2022 | Season 1 | 38 mins 9 secs
Zach Corleissen is currently a staff technical writer at Stripe, solving complex documentation challenges and serving as a mentor to other writers.
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Episode 8: Google Season of Docs
April 25th, 2022 | Season 1 | 39 mins 41 secs
In this episode, we talk about Google Season of Docs, everything that’s involved in it, and how you can apply to participate in this fascinating program. Not only do we have the Google Season of Docs team with us, but we also have a contributor.
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Episode 7: Amy Burns
April 18th, 2022 | Season 1 | 33 mins 19 secs
Amy Burns is the Senior Content Developer at Vercel. She’s here to talk about how she got into technical documentation, and she explains four job titles regarding writing and the differences between them.
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Episode 6: Aisha Blake
April 1st, 2022 | Season 1 | 38 mins 24 secs
Aisha Blake is a Director of Developer Relations at Pluralsight, as well as a theater kid turned tech community leader, speaker, conference organizer, and teacher. Aisha explains how a Developer Relations Engineer is one flavor of a whole range of titles among other things.
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Episode 5: Beth Aitman
March 24th, 2022 | Season 1 | 40 mins 56 secs
Beth Aitman is a Senior Technical Writer at Google, where she works to improve the developer experience for Site Reliability Engineers, and she’s also the editor of the Write the Docs newsletter.
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Episode 4: Swapnil Ogale
February 27th, 2022 | Season 1 | 36 mins 16 secs
Swapnil Ogale has over 16 years of technical documentation experience across a range of industries in Australia and globally. Currently, he works as Redocly’s Technical Writer Advocate, pursuing his passion for writing, along with advocating for the docs-as-code approach for product content.
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Episode 3: Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti
February 27th, 2022 | Season 1 | 35 mins 16 secs
Fabrizio Benedetti is a Senior Staff Technical Writer at Splunk, and previously was a technical journalist and studied psychology. Fabrizio takes us through his journey of technical writing and shares some helpful tips if becoming a technical writer interests you.
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Episode 2: Tom Johnson
February 23rd, 2022 | Season 1 | 38 mins 7 secs
Tom Johnson is a tech writer and has worked at both startups and big tech for the past 17 years. He has a blog called, I’d Rather be Writing, which he’ll tell us about, as well as an API doc course that provides a lot of free information on how to write API documentation.
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Episode 1: Megan Sullivan
February 22nd, 2022 | Season 1 | 35 mins 9 secs
Megan Sullivan is a Developer Educator at Apollo. Megan shares her background and story about studying CS, going into teaching CS courses, and how putting the two together helped her become a more confident professional developer and create a path for others with an educational background.
