Summary
Doug Fulton is a Principal Technical Writer with over 25 years crafting system-level documentation and, more recently, RESTful API reference and governance. He led API design and enforcement at Capital One—authoring standards, reviewing over 1,000 endpoints, and building a tool that both detects OpenAPI/AVRO infractions and converts Swagger to internal docs. Comfortable in code as well as prose, he has contributed production code and built in-house documentation and bug-reporting tools using languages from Lisp and C++ to Ruby and JavaScript. A ten-year manager of writing teams, he combines publication production skills (layout, localization, web design) with pragmatic API governance, and brings a musician’s attention to structure and rhythm to complex technical narratives. Based in Pennsylvania, he blends deep legacy OS documentation experience with modern API-first practices.
8 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor and Master of Arts in Music, Bachelor and Master of Arts in Music at University of Iowa
Doctor of Musical Arts (incomplete), Doctor of Musical Arts (incomplete) at Stanford University