Francis Roberts
All things docs
I build documentation sites and write the content that lives on them. That means engineering the underlying infrastructure (migrating legacy platforms like Textile onto modern React, TypeScript, and MDX stacks) alongside authoring the API references, guides, and troubleshooting content developers actually use.
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🏍️When offline
Motorbikes in the morning, docs engineering in the day, and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu at night.
💼My docs journey
Developer Educator and Docs Engineer at Ably (2023)
Co-developing technical docs for the LiveSync database sync product, and contributing to the re-engineering of the ably.com/docs codebase by migrating pages from the legacy Textile content system onto the new Next.js + TypeScript + React stack. Building scalable content strategies for developer adoption.
Lead Docs Engineer at Couchbase (2022)
Built scalable documentation framework, authored API docs for Cloud/Mobile/Edge platforms, consolidated fragmented repos into unified GitHub monorepo.
Docs Engineer at CDW UK (2021)
Authored developer-centric API docs for cloud platforms, maintained AWS/Azure documentation, created multi-language SDK documentation.
Docs Engineer at Atlas Copco (2018)
Authored software/hardware manuals and API documentation, developed browser-based documentation portals.
📝Docs tips
I share the docs tips and tricks I pick up on LinkedIn. I'm also a crypto geek writing about blockchain, smart contracts, and developer tooling over on the blog.
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🤝Let's work together
Ready to improve your documentation? Let's discuss how I can help your team create docs that developers actually want to use.
