About Me

Engineering documentation that scales with the software it describes.

I'm a documentation strategist shaping how complex software products are documented and understood. In enterprise environments, I've owned the structure and delivery of developer guides, API references, and solution frameworks. My focus is writing the documentation and engineering the systems that scale it: information architecture, content modeling, and process automation.

I design documentation systems for the teams who contribute to them. Instructional design and UX principles inform the content structure, self-service governance, and the contribution guidelines that hold a documentation system together as it grows.

Cody Anthony

What colleagues say

Working with me, in their words.

He consistently demonstrated exceptional technical depth, strong ownership, and a deep commitment to customer experience. He led complex documentation workloads end-to-end, spanning user guides, API content, infrastructure-as-code material, and in-product help, and his work directly influenced engineering and design decisions. Senior technical leaders regularly praised the clarity, accuracy, and precision he brought to deeply technical domains.

— Samantha Lindsey, documentation manager, AWS (managed Cody directly)

I was fortunate to work with him on a complicated content migration project. Cody developed the initial set of tooling and scripts that were essential to making the migration relatively quick. These scripts were carefully developed, well documented, and successfully used for many sets of content conversion. Other writers have been able to build on this quality engineering work to improve the migration process.

— Duncan Mackenzie, Software Development Manager, AWS (former Head of Docs, Stripe)

Cody is a fantastic technical writer and content designer. He implemented mechanisms that enabled strong collaboration inside Amazon and with technical writers at an external service provider we partnered with. He designed the structure of our user guide, prioritized the most critical content, and always delivered bar-raising content on schedule or ahead of schedule, well calibrated for customers with varying levels of background knowledge.

— Eric Chapman, Product Manager, AWS (worked with Cody on the same team)

// Skills, Tools & Technologies

What I work with.

Documentation and content design

  • API documentation
  • Developer guides
  • Content strategy
  • Content design
  • UX writing
  • Information architecture
  • Content modeling
  • Style guides
  • Microcopy
  • Release notes
  • Tutorials
  • CLI and SDK references

Tools and platforms

  • Git
  • GitHub
  • GitLab
  • Markdown
  • AsciiDoc
  • DocBook
  • XML
  • OpenAPI
  • Confluence
  • Jira
  • Figma
  • Cloudscape Design System
  • Oxygen XML Editor
  • VS Code
  • Cursor

AI and automation

  • Claude
  • ChatGPT
  • Gemini
  • Cline
  • Q Developer CLI
  • Model Context Protocol (MCP)
  • Prompt engineering
  • Agentic workflows
  • GenAI tool development
  • Content automation
  • Process automation

Development

  • Python
  • JavaScript
  • Node.js
  • HTML/CSS
  • REST APIs
  • JSON/YAML
  • CI/CD pipelines
  • Docs-as-code
  • Static site generators