Kayce Basques
Staff Technical Writer at Google
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolKayce Basques is a Staff Technical Writer in San Francisco with 11 years of experience translating complex software and hardware topics into clear, product-facing documentation at Google. She led content strategy for web.dev and developer.chrome.com, driving an 8x pageview increase, automating contribution workflows (including a GitHub content-quality bot), and doubling contributor engagement while managing and mentoring writers. Her deep ownership of Chrome DevTools and Lighthouse docs—serving millions of users—reflects a rare combination of hands-on docs authoring, product-integrated content strategy, and engineering collaboration. An active open-source contributor, she has shaped Python anti-patterns and WebFundamentals docs, improving discoverability and code clarity. With an academic background spanning computer science and history, she pairs technical precision with strong narrative judgment to make low-level systems accessible to diverse audiences.
11 years of coding experience
Associate of Science (A.S.), Computer Science, 4.0, Associate of Science (A.S.), Computer Science, 4.0 at College of San MateoBachelor of Arts (B.A.), History, 3.84, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), History, 3.84 at UC Berkeley
Stackoverflow
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google-chrome
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polymer
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Github Skills (31)
markdown10
lighthouse10
javascript10
technical-writing10
readability10
devtools10
google-chrome10
markdown-it10
html10
developer-tools10
documentation10
twitter-bootstrap9
debugging9
web-content9
python9
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
quantifiedcode/python-anti-patterns
Sep 2014 - Nov 2014
An open collection of Python anti-patterns and worst practices.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:154 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Kayce's contributions primarily focus on creating and refining documentation for Python anti-patterns. They wrote and edited multiple articles, including "Explicit return in \_\_init\_\_", "Method could be a function," and "Unreachable code." The user also made edits to existing documentation, such as fixing markdown and clarifying the code examples provided. Their contributions focused on the content and the presentation of the documentation.
pythonantiworstanti-patternspatterns
google/WebFundamentals
Dec 2015 - Apr 2019
Former git repo for WebFundamentals on developers.google.com
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:3 reviews, 319 commits, 686 PRs in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Kayce primarily contributed to the repository by adding and updating documentation related to Chrome DevTools and Lighthouse audits. Their work involved creating feedback widgets, improving existing documentation, and adding new references for specific audits and features. The commits show a focus on improving user guidance and clarifying information within the Google WebFundamentals documentation.
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