Erik Larsen
Senior API Technical Writer at Deque Systems, Inc
Vancouver, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolErik Larsen is a Senior API Technical Writer with 19 years of experience translating complex APIs and developer tooling into clear, usable documentation. Based in Vancouver, Washington, he currently shapes API docs at Deque Systems and has a strong freelance background producing developer-facing guides, press materials, and eleven books—including writing his own tooling to generate print-ready PDFs and ePUBs. His career spans deep technical roles at Microsoft and Qualtrics, where he wrote hundreds of samples and automated documentation workflows, saving teams significant time. Comfortable in code and design, he ships samples in languages from C# and Objective‑C to Python and R, and has hands-on iOS app and build-engineering experience. Notably, he has maintained open-source documentation tooling (Sandcastle) and routinely combines technical interviews, code experimentation, and image retouching to produce polished, privacy-safe documentation.
19 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Economics, Master's degree, Economics at Clemson UniversityBachelor's degree, Economics, Bachelor's degree, Economics at University of Washington
Github Skills (26)
accessibility10
testing10
voiceover10
devtools10
axe10
testcafe10
visual-regression-testing10
wcag10
ui-testing10
cdp9
openui59
api7
integrations5
tesseract4
macos3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
enlarsen/Tesseract-Box-Editor
May 2014 - Jun 2015
Contributions:33 commits, 2 pushes in 1 year
boxocrfontsmactraining
enlarsen/RadioTools
Dec 2013 - Jan 2015
Contributions:13 commits, 2 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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