Angela L. Smith writes technical documentation — API references, developer guides, customer FAQs, knowledge base articles, and case studies — for software companies from early-stage startups to established platforms. Her background includes academia, engineering, and archaeology, an odd combination that shows up in the work anyway: she likes systems that make sense and writing that gets out of the reader's way.
She came to this career after a first career, after university, after becoming a mother. The order wasn't tidy, but the writing benefits from it. Years spent learning how things work well enough to explain them to someone else turns out to be its own kind of training.
Based in the San Francisco Bay Area. See the Writing Samples page for examples of past work, or get in touch about a project.