Woman in Tech Speaker Profile

Could your team use some inspiration and working examples? Would you like to quiz someone who has tried innovative techniques for GitHub for documentation, open source software, building collaborative teams, or REST API documentation? I’m available to speak to teams and would love to help your team learn and grow.
Sessionize link: https://sessionize.com/anne-gentle/

Upcoming Engagements

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Past Presentations

Cisco Live United States: Las Vegas June 8-12, 2023

Cisco Live Europe: Amsterdam February 6-10, 2023

Inclusive, Accessible Tech: Bias-Free Language In Code And Configurations CodeMash Sandusky, Ohio, Thursday, January 12, 2023, 1:00-2:00

Inclusive, Accessible Tech: Bias-free Language in Code and Configurations. Kubecon North America, Detroit, MI October 2022
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Docs as Code: Publishing Processes for API Experiences. Austin Homegrown API Meetup Austin, TX August 2022

Panelist, Junior Achievement S.H.E Leads Virtual STEM Summit March 2021.

Docs Like Code: Strategies and Stories December 2017, Write the Docs Australia.

Docs Like Code: Strategies and Stories December 2017, Center for Information-Development Management (CIDM) Austin Regional Information Development Event (RIDE) Conference.

Docs Like Code: What happens when you can change, review, and publish docs with automation techniques? February 2017, Southwestern Ontario Chapter STC

Transformation at Intuit: How Code and Documentation Thrive with CI/CD December 2016, Intuit web presentation

Deploying Apps on OpenStack: Things We Found While Playing Around, with Hart Hoover, OpenStack Summit Barcelona October 2016

OpenAPI as a Standard – A New Way Forward for API Documentation, OpenStack Summit Austin April 2016

Managing Medical and Health Data With OpenStack, a Wearable Sensor, and Smart Apps, OpenStack Summit Tokyo October 2015.

Collaborating on GitHub for Open Source Documentation, Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing October 2015.

Journey into Continuous Glucose Monitoring Technology as a Parent, Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing October 2015.

I’ve been thinking a lot about developer support at Cisco recently, especially for the way the world works today with multiple cloud providers. This post is a re-publish of my talk from over five years ago, but the techniques and tools for listening and helping others are still true today. At Rackspace, we watched several […]

Cisco DevNet is our developer program for outreach, education, and tools for developers at Cisco. From the beginning, the team has had a vision for how to run a developer program. Customers are first, and the team implements what Cisco customers need for automation, configuration, and deployment of our various offerings. Plus, the DevNet team […]

I had a great talk with Ellis Pratt of Cherryleaf Technical Writing consulting last week. Here are the show notes, full of links to all the topics we covered. Podcasts are great fun to listen to and participate in, if a bit nerve-wracking to think on your feet and make sure you answer questions succinctly […]

At the beginning of this year, I worked hard to summarize my thoughts on API documentation, continuous publishing, and technical accuracy for developer documentation. The result is an article on InfoQ.com, edited by Deepak Nadig, who also was forward-thinking in having me speak to a few teams at Intuit about API documentation coupled with code. Always […]