Laurel Kline
Sr. Technical Writer, Internal Developer Relations
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLaurel Kline is a senior technical writer and developer relations leader with two decades of experience helping developer communities and product teams turn APIs into impactful apps. Based in San Francisco, she currently shapes internal developer experience at Google, designing documentation-driven workflows that route support across engineers, volunteers, and contractors. Her background spans building developer programs at scale—from managing eBay’s 168k-strong developer community and saving the company millions to launching Kintone’s US platform partnerships and hackathon series—paired with hands-on documentation production and tooling expertise. Fluent at translating between developers, product managers, and executives, she routinely reframes deep technical work for strategic audiences and created authoring guides that uplift teammates’ writing. A former top contributor to Google’s internal glossary and a Hackbright-trained full-stack graduate, she blends editorial rigor with practical engineering empathy to reduce friction and accelerate developer time-to-first-hello.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate, Full Stack Development, Certificate, Full Stack Development at Hackbright AcademyCertificate, Technical Writing, Certificate, Technical Writing at UCSC Silicon Valley ExtensionUniversity of California Santa Cruz
French, LatinProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
geekshe/developer-program-dashboard
Feb 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:44 commits, 53 pushes, 2 branches in 22 days
geekshe/ratings
Jan 2017 - Feb 2017
Contributions:6 pushes, 2 branches in 4 days
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