Summary
Marci Windsheimer is a Principal Technical Writer with eight years of senior experience and over two decades in technical communication, currently shaping documentation at Elastic. She has led teams and documentation strategy at Google, The New York Times, and Digital Asset, and brings deep expertise in developer-facing content, API reference, and knowledge management. Marci pairs a writer’s precision with engineering-friendly workflows—automating processes and editing directly in codebases during roles at Devpost and Amazon Web Services. Her background includes a J.D. and an MS in Library and Information Science, reflecting a rare blend of legal rigor and information architecture that informs clear, usable docs. Based in New York, she’s known for “weeding overgrown prose” to make complex systems genuinely comprehensible for engineers and product teams.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. English, B.A. English at Colorado College
M.S. Library and Information Science, M.S. Library and Information Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
J.D. Law, J.D. Law at University of Minnesota Law School