Joshua Baxter
Senior Technical Writer, Technical Writing Manager at Google
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoshua Baxter is a Senior Technical Writer and manager with over a decade of experience crafting developer documentation and tooling for platform teams at Google and Microsoft. He currently leads documentation efforts for Android and related tools at Google, bringing deep expertise in XML/Markdown pipelines, automation, and documentation platform convergence. Joshua has a strong engineering background—building C#/LINQ, PowerShell, and web-based tooling to streamline docs workflows—and has previously written docs and code samples for Visual C/C++ and Windows tooling. He pairs hands-on technical problem solving with people leadership, having taught SQL to teammates and collaborated directly with community MVPs to close longstanding documentation gaps. Based in the Greater Seattle area, he holds an M.S. in Applied Computer Science and is known for automating tedious processes to make complex developer content more accessible.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
M.S., Applied Computer Science, M.S., Applied Computer Science at East Tennessee State University
Japanese
Github Skills (9)
hardware9
source-port9
windows8
zephyr7
tvm7
text-selection7
microsoft6
formatter2
markdown2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
brianlic-msft/commercialization-public
May 2017 - Jun 2017
Windows hardware documentation for Microsoft partners.
Contributions:2 commits in 1 day
source-portwindowstvmhardwaremicrosoft
joshbax-msft/mdhelper
May 2016 - Sep 2017
Contributions:9 releases, 1 PR, 43 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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