Summary
Kathryn Elliott is a seasoned technical writer and content architect with nearly a decade of experience shaping documentation for enterprise software, most recently as Senior Content Developer on Azure DevOps at Microsoft. She blends deep information-architecture skills with hands-on authoring—having created installation, programming, and end-user guides across more than 25 document types and led documentation for complex VoIP and messaging systems at Openwave. Kathryn has a strong track record of launching products and scaling doc teams, including managing remote teams and building an award-winning quick-lookup online reference integrated with a custom Lucene search. Comfortable working with developer and IT audiences, she excels at distilling complex technical workflows into concise, usable content and driving cross-team documentation strategy. Based in Bellevue, Washington, she combines an engineering education with practical product-team experience, bringing both analytical rigor and user-focused clarity to documentation programs.
9 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Los Angeles
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Applied Mechanics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Applied Mechanics at Stanford University