Anindita Basu

I can write documentation from scratch. I can also coach, guide, and handhold non-writers (for example, coders) when they write.

My interests include docs-as-code, REST APIs, information architecture, and DITA.

Skills

  • Advanced: Markdown, HTML, reStructured Text, DITA, MkDocs
  • Intermediate: Jekyll, Swagger, Python, Git, Liquid
  • Beginner: Sphinx

Career highlights

  • Set up a docs-like-code authoring toolchain
  • Defined style guidelines for in-product text
  • Defined style guidelines for videos
  • Implemented SEO practices, and laid down the process and guidelines
  • Implemented progressive disclosure
  • While creating wireframes for a product, filed a defensive patent disclosure

Employment history

Principal Technical Writer

Vymo Technologies, Bangalore, 2020 to date

  • Set up the authoring toolchain

  • Write the docs

Principal Technical Writer

Oracle Inc., Hyderabad, 2018 to 2020

  • Handle implementation guides, user guides, and REST API guides

Staff Technical Writer

OpenText Technologies, Hyderabad, 2017 to 2018

  • Write and peer review product documentation

  • Contribute to video language guidelines, review storyboards, and mentor video creators

  • Review UI text

Technical Editor

HCL Technologies, Bangalore, 2016 to 2017

  • Edit the documentation for the testing suite of products that IBM India sold to HCL Technologies

Technical Editor

IBM India, Bangalore, 2011 to 2016

  • Train writers on IBM Style and on DITA

  • Lay down style guidelines for emerging documentation deliverables such as videos and Cloud

  • Create wireframes for the user interface for a web version of a product

Information Developer

IBM India, Bangalore, 2008 to 2011

  • Write and edit product documentation such as online help files, embedded user-interface help, and videos

  • Implement SEO practices, and lay down the process and guidelines

  • Implement progressive disclosure

Senior Technical Writer

Integra Micro Software Services, Bangalore, 2006 to 2008

  • user manuals

  • localization

Deputy Manager

Bharatiya Reserve Bank Note Mudran Ltd, Bangalore, 1996 to 2005

  • Finance, accounts, administration, vigilance

Senior Editor

Taxmann Publications, New Delhi, 1995 to 1996

  • Write, review, and edit digests of court judgements of Indian tax laws and corporate laws

Certifications

  • Human-Computer Interaction, 2017, The Interaction Design Foundation

  • Information Visualization, 2017, The Interaction Design Foundation

  • Using Python to access web data, 2016, Coursera

  • Programming for Everybody (Python), 2014, Coursera

  • Human-Computer Interaction, 2013, Coursera

Education

  • Diplôme de Langue, Alliance Française de Bangalore

  • Master of Business Administration, Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra

  • Bachelor of Science, University of Allahabad