The Akaash object

Every skill and tool, documented the way I’d document an API object. Attributes are grouped by what they’re used for.

{
  "object": "technical_writer",
  "id": "akaash_amalraj",
  "experience_years": 8,
  "livemode": true
}

Attributes

documentation_types array

The kinds of documentation I write and have shipped to production.

• API references
• SDK and integration guides
• Release notes
• User guides
• Admin guides
• Configuration guides
• Troubleshooting guides
• Knowledge base articles
• SOPs
• Dispute documentation
• Style guides
• In-product content
• Partner communications
• Instructional videos

docs_as_code array

How I write, review and publish.

• Git
• GitHub
• Markdown
• VS Code
• Cursor
• PR-based reviews
• Stoplight
• Docusaurus

api_tooling array

What I use to understand and verify APIs before I document them.

• REST APIs
• JSON
• OpenAPI / Swagger
• API spec authoring
• Postman

generative_ai array

A daily and power user. See AI-augmented docs.

• Claude Code
• Codex
• Cursor, including custom rules

structured_authoring array

Topic-based authoring with typed concept, task and reference topics, content reuse through keys and conrefs, and conditional publishing. See the DITA sample.

• DITA
• Oxygen XML Author
• MadCap
• Acrolinx

style_guides array

Style guides I’ve written to, adapted, or maintained. See the before and after rewrites.

• Google developer documentation style guide
• Microsoft Writing Style Guide
• House style guides for docs, microcopy and video
• Merriam-Webster (spelling and hyphenation)
• WCAG 2.2 (accessible content)

security_and_compliance array

Topics I’ve documented or worked closely with.

• OAuth 2.0
• API key management
• Okta SSO
• Risk and compliance docs
• SDLC / DDLC
• Threat modelling
• Risk assessments

financial_domain array

• Cross-border payments
• Wallet interoperability
• Dispute handling
• Settlements
• Fraud and transaction monitoring
• Mortgage industry basics
• Blockchain, Web3 and DeFi concepts (personal interest)

collaboration array

• Jira
• Confluence
• Crowdin (localization)
• Cross-time-zone teams
• Mentoring

multimedia_and_diagrams array

• Camtasia
• HeyGen
• Lucidchart
• Visio
• EdrawMax
• MS Word styles and templates
• Excel

programming_languages array

Enough to read code, write working examples, and ask engineers better questions.

• Python
• Ruby
• HTML
• Markdown

human_languages object

education object

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