Q&A with Tom Manshreck, on the O'Reilly book "Software Engineering at Google"

Join us for a Q&A session with Tom Manshreck, a staff technical writer for Google and a key contributor to the book "Software Engineering at Google."

We'll talk about:

• The process for assembling the book.
• Lessons for technical writers and editors about helping developers write for a general audience.
• Tom's direct advice for developers who need to write documentation.

Please note that RSVPs close 24 hours before the event.

OUR SPEAKER:
Tom Manshreck is a Staff Technical Writer within Software Engineering at Google since 2005, responsible for developing and maintaining many of Google's core programming guides in infrastructure and language. Since 2011, he has been a member of Google's C++ Library Team, developing Google's C++ documentation set, launching (with Titus Winters) Google's C++ training classes, and documenting Abseil, Google's open source C++ code. Tom holds a BS in Political Science and a BS in History from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Before Google, Tom worked as a Managing Editor for Computer Science at Pearson/Prentice Hall and various startups.

-TRANSIT:
Stand up from your desk. Turn around three times, and say "There's no place like home."
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