Bio

Anne is an enthusiastic and technical leader who provides improved developer experiences with APIs and SDKs. She works as a director of developer experience at Cisco within the strategic developer relations program, DevNet. With her team of experts, she supports developer tools for API quality and design, product feedback loops, developer documentation, and developer success including communities. Anne coaches teams who want to weaponize documentation for the best user outcomes. She wrote a book called Docs Like Code to demonstrate developer tools and workflows like GitHub and automated publishing and code integration, applied in the technical writing world. She proudly serves on the Workforce Advisory Committee at Austin Community College, pushing the field toward future opportunities in API and developer documentation. In collaboration with the Inclusive Future Action Office at Cisco, Anne works with engineering teams to eliminate biased language in code and content.