API Documentation

Software developers use APIs to make applications that communicate with other applications and with software/hardware components. API technical writers create documentation and other content that helps developers hook their applications up to someone else’s API.

For a technical writer, API documentation is an exciting, challenging field that is in high demand particularly in Silicon Valley. However, navigating the various technologies and programming languages in the API landscape make it one of the more difficult fields to excel in. Not only is the content highly technical, when you write for developers, explaining code doesn't always follow a 1-2-3 step approach that is common with user interface documentation.

About Andrew Fuchs

Andy Fuchs is a senior technical writer, software developer, and scrum master, currently with Google. He was one of the world’s first consumer video game sound designers. He has dreamed in multiple languages, and finds thrills riding his motorcycle at the racetrack.