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I’m Beck, poet with a passion for process — helping you empower users by designing and building solutions built to scale.
I’ve designed, implemented, and managed everything from content, support, training, and onboarding architecture for organizations from startups to enterprises.
My methods bridge the gap between product design and user experience, whether that’s advocating for users during early stage development planning, serving as de facto alpha tester and bug fixer extraordinaire, or producing top-quality content that gets users excited about features.
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Delivering content as an integrated and integral part of product.
Docs-as-code goes beyond just producing documentation in the same development ecosystem as features — thinking of content as product that’s part of product, a dedication to intuitive content architecture on top of immaculate user resources, and wrapping content and feature storytelling into the definition of done.
Some behind-the-scenes insights into how I built this portfolio site and other projects, created to showcase my abilities as a content architect.
I was the sole Senior Technical Writer for ValidMind, a generative artificial intelligence financial services startup, where I employed docs-as-code methodologies alongside software engineers delivering documentation as part of product in the same development ecosystem, transforming a minimal set of user guide drafts into a fully idealized and comprehensive knowledge base.
At ValidMind, I delivered documentation not just as complete product, but designed and implemented extensible documentation architecture:
Atryum is an open-source agentic orchestration tool developed by ValidMind. As ValidMind’s sole Senior Technical Writer, I was responsible for almost all of the documentation for Atryum.
Engendering empowered users through effective guidance content.
Along with a love of gratuitous alliteration, I truly enjoy authoring user guidance content. That’s because I believe that great guidance content empowers users, and empowered users get excited about product.
I designed and built a retro-inspired, mobile-responsive Next.js guestbook application styled with Tailwind CSS and a backend powered by Supabase, complete with comprehensive documentation in MDX, including an API reference implemented with Scalar.
I was the sole Senior Technical Writer for ValidMind, a generative artificial intelligence financial services startup, where I employed docs-as-code methodologies alongside software engineers delivering documentation as part of product in the same development ecosystem, transforming a minimal set of user guide drafts into a fully idealized and comprehensive knowledge base.
As I authored the bulk of 53% of user content out of many contributors,1 most of ValidMind’s documentation saw my influence at some point. I’ve selected some of my best work to showcase below:
1 Citation: validmind/documentation statistic archive
Atryum is an open-source agentic orchestration tool developed by ValidMind. As ValidMind’s sole Senior Technical Writer, I was responsible for almost all of the documentation for Atryum.
I authored approximately 95% of the content for Atryum,2 including the samples selected below:
Samples from older roles or projects.
Before we had any formal technical writers at SaaSquatch, a B2B affiliate software startup, I created and maintained company-wide technical process, product and installation documentation. Using Contentful and a bit of cobbled together code, I overhauled our public knowledge base with a focus on accuracy, client accessibility, increased internal ease of upkeep, and future extensibility.
While the following samples are quite dated before I refined my voice in an official technical writing role, I’ve included them for completion and progression value:
Driving action and building connection through technical insight.
To me, software storytelling goes beyond simple feature highlights — culminating in tangible statements of value for users.
I was the sole Senior Technical Writer for ValidMind, a generative artificial intelligence financial services startup, where I employed docs-as-code methodologies alongside software engineers delivering documentation as part of product in the same development ecosystem, transforming a minimal set of user guide drafts into a fully idealized and comprehensive knowledge base.
Check out some blog posts I wrote on our product offering and industry that shine some insight into my writing style:
Samples from older roles or projects.
Before we had any formal technical writers at SaaSquatch, a B2B affiliate software startup, I created and maintained company-wide technical process, product and installation documentation. Using Contentful and a bit of cobbled together code, I overhauled our public knowledge base with a focus on accuracy, client accessibility, increased internal ease of upkeep, and future extensibility.
Below is the very first article I wrote for SaaSquatch. While it feels a bit rough now years later, it still showcases my consistent author voice: