Katherine Kinnaman
Strategic Technical Writer
Abilene, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKatherine Kinnaman is a Strategic Technical Writer with over a decade of documentation and QA experience and four years focused on developer-facing products at Anaconda. She specializes in creating and managing extensive documentation libraries in Markdown, HTML/CSS, and Word, and has hands-on experience coordinating with developers and QA to turn customer feedback into clear, user-focused content. At Anaconda she documents core products like Navigator and Anaconda.org and has contributed to the well-known conda project, improving cheatsheets, guides, and installer documentation. Katherine pairs documentation craft with practical testing and regression automation work, enabling tighter feedback loops between docs, QA, and engineering. Based in Abilene, Texas, she’s actively expanding her hardware and software skills and learning Python to deepen her technical authorship.
4 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Arts, English, Bachelor of Arts, English at Abilene Christian University
English
Github Skills (8)
doc10
datasheet10
conda10
rs10
restructuredtext10
documentation10
markdown-it8
markdown8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
conda/conda-docs
Jan 2022 - Oct 2022
Conda documentation
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:52 reviews, 8 commits, 19 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Katherine primarily contributed to the documentation of the conda project. Their work involved adjusting table formatting in a miniconda hashes document, removing references to arm64, and merging in updates to reflect the correct installer list. Additionally, the user rewrote the contribution section of the help and support page.
condadocumentation-site
conda/conda
May 2022 - Jan 2023
A system-level, binary package and environment manager running on all major operating systems and platforms.
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:133 reviews, 18 commits, 18 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Katherine's commits primarily focus on updating and improving documentation within the conda repository. They revised the conda cheatsheet, updating the content and transitioning it to CSV tables and PDF downloads. The user also corrected broken links, fixed formatting issues in the documentation, and updated the Anaconda Cloud references to Anaconda.org. Furthermore, they contributed to the getting-started guide, reflecting a consistent effort to improve user documentation.
os-agnosticcondaagnosticpackage-managerlinux
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