Summary
Nicole Mcallister is a Senior Technical Writer with over 30 years of experience blending technical writing, database programming, and application development, grounded in MA and BS degrees in mathematics. She has documented developer-facing APIs, SDKs, and platform integrations at top-tier tech companies including NVIDIA, Meta, and Amazon, with deep domain experience across cloud, web services, social, healthcare, and finance. Known for advocating for developers and end users, she writes instructive code samples, documents tools and processes for colleagues, and optimizes content for localization under tight deadlines. Nicole’s background as a programmer and SQL developer gives her unusual fluency in engineering documents and the ability to ship precise API and CLI references as well as higher-level conceptual guides. She has repeatedly redesigned content architectures (notably for the Alexa Skills Kit) and contributed to onboarding and hiring, combining hands-on documentation craft with mentorship and process improvement. Based in Seattle, she brings a rare mix of rigorous analytical training and practical software experience that helps engineering teams move faster and communicate clearly.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
MA Mathematics, MA Mathematics at The City College of New York
BS Mathematics, BS Mathematics at Purchase College, SUNY
Stuyvesant High School