Heather Stenson
Technical Writer at Stripe
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolHeather Stenson is a technical writer with 11 years of experience crafting developer-facing and user-facing documentation for products at Mapbox, Postman, Stripe, Google, and Facebook. She brings a full‑stack development background and an M.L.I.S., which gives her a rare blend of engineering fluency and information‑architecture rigor for APIs, web/desktop apps, and internal processes. At Mapbox she contributed directly to prominent open‑source mapping repos—improving examples, API links, and platform docs for mapbox-gl-js and mapbox.js—so she understands both code and developer workflows. Heather has led style‑guide work, migration projects (GitHub to developers.google.com), and cross‑functional content strategy, consistently translating complex product behavior into clear, actionable guides. Based in San Francisco, she pairs hands‑on editing and content design with UX writing and email/customer journey work, and she’s known to keep a surprisingly sharp editorial eye fueled by a fondness for potato chips.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Library & Information Science (M.L.I.S.) Library and Information Science, Master of Library & Information Science (M.L.I.S.) Library and Information Science at San José State UniversityFull-Stack Web Development, Full-Stack Web Development at General AssemblyBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Anthropology, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Anthropology at Colorado State University
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Github Skills (31)
map-box10
javascript10
ios10
leaflet10
mapbox-gl10
ui-design10
doc10
uid10
front-end-development10
3d10
maps10
macos10
maplibre-gl10
documentation10
webgl9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
mapbox/mapbox.js
Nov 2018 - Mar 2021
Mapbox JavaScript API, a Leaflet Plugin
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 26 commits, 11 PRs in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Heather primarily updated and created examples within the documentation of the Mapbox JavaScript API. These updates involved modifying code snippets to demonstrate various features, including map interactions, marker implementations, and integration with external data sources. The commits focused on refining the existing examples, adding new functionalities, and improving the overall clarity and usability of the documentation. The user was also responsible for updating and maintaining the styling of the examples.
leafletapimapboxleaflet-plugindocs-site
mapbox/mapbox-gl-js
Mar 2018 - Sep 2021
Interactive, thoroughly customizable maps in the browser, powered by vector tiles and WebGL
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:53 reviews, 23 commits, 42 PRs in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Heather primarily focused on improving the documentation and user interface elements of the Mapbox GL JS library. They fixed spacing issues in the style specification documentation, updated API links to a new URL structure, and made several corrections and clarifications within the documentation, including the addition of iOS SDK documentation links and an explanation of the `queryRenderedFeatures` method. The user also made minor formatting and example fixes in the API reference docs.
vector-tilestilesmonorepobrowsermapbox
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