Summary
Mary Anthony is a Staff Technical Writer with eight years of focused experience (and a two-decade span of broader technical roles) building developer- and admin-facing documentation, documentation tooling, and UX text for early-stage startups and enterprise teams. She specializes in documentation engineering—migrating and consolidating complex doc sites (MkDocs, Sphinx, Docusaurus, GitBook), automating builds and CI/CD with Python and GitLab, and reducing publication time from days to minutes. Mary combines hands-on documentation build engineering with project and team management, having led migrations at organizations like ThoughtSpot, Docker, and Confluent while also architecting documentation for web3 and telephony APIs. She brings a user-centered design perspective from coursework in journalism and UI design, and a knack for turning large, fragmented repo landscapes into phased, practical migration plans (she once analyzed 61 repositories and 550+ pages to drive consolidation). Based in Buellton, CA, she also runs IT and Smartsheet architecture for a bioskills training company, showing an uncommon blend of clinical research validation, documentation ops, and product-focused UX writing.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Coursework toward Masters Journalism User Interface Design, Coursework toward Masters Journalism User Interface Design at The University of Texas at Austin
B.A. Political Science, B.A. Political Science at Miami University