Anne Gentle

Anne Gentle is a developer experience leader, helping companies define and grow their strategic developer relations programs. She currently works as a technical writing manager at Pismo, which provides banking infrastructure using REST APIs. Previously a Director at Cisco, her team worked on API quality assessments and API documentation with OpenAPI specifications, interactive REST API documentation, and developer tutorials. She pursues eliminating biased language in code and content with open source projects. Anne wrote the book, Docs Like Code, to provide practical guidance for docs-as-code workflows with GitHub, automation, and enhanced processes for developers and writers to work together. She proudly serves on the Austin Community College Workforce Advisory Committee, pushing the field toward future opportunities in API and developer documentation.