Summary
Emily Kapner is an award-winning Principal Technical Writer and Content Strategist with nine years in senior roles and over two decades shaping developer and enterprise documentation at companies like Salesforce, Oracle, and SAP. She specializes in unified content strategy, DITA-based structured authoring, and crafting prescriptive, task-focused content that helps developer and admin audiences succeed with complex cloud and DevOps tooling. Known for building consensus across cross-functional teams, she combines hands-on authoring (FrameMaker, XML, Oxygen) with content architecture and CMS expertise to streamline lifecycle and delivery in Agile environments. At Salesforce she led Trailhead modules and developer docs for DX, unlocked packages, and DevOps Center, earning STC recognition for practical, high-impact content. Comfortable working with minimal source information, she frequently drives documentation projects end-to-end—translating engineering concepts into usable workflows that measurably improve product adoption.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Technical Writing Certificate, Technical Writing Certificate at De Anza College
San José State University
MBA, MBA at University of Colorado
University of California Santa Cruz