Building documentation systems that think ahead
I'm Nikhila Jain, a staff technical writer with a developer's mindset and 20+ years of experience crafting intelligent documentation systems. I work at the intersection of engineering, AI, and storytelling—building content that scales with teams and supports semantic search, RAG pipelines, and LLM fine-tuning.
My current focus: building AI-ready documentation systems that are human-readable today and machine-ingestible tomorrow—structured, consistent, and optimized for both human understanding and machine intelligence.
Core expertise
AI-Native Documentation
LLM-ready content, embedding strategies, automation workflows, and semantic search optimization.
Docs-as-Code
Git-based pipelines, CI/CD automation, Markdown-first tooling, and version control best practices.
Developer & API Docs
Integration guides, REST API references, real-world code samples, and developer experience optimization.
Cloud & Infrastructure
AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, distributed systems documentation and operational runbooks.
Modern Tooling
Docusaurus, GitBook, Vale linter, GitHub Actions, OpenAPI/Swagger, Mermaid diagrams.
Content Strategy
Information architecture, content modeling, documentation systems design, and UX writing.
What I do
I architect documentation systems with a developer's precision and a writer's clarity. This means:
- Designing information architecture that scales with product complexity
- Building docs-as-code workflows with CI/CD automation and quality gates
- Preparing content for AI integration—embedding strategies, metadata taxonomies, and RAG optimization
- Writing developer-focused documentation that actually gets used
- Instrumenting docs as products with analytics, search insights, and adoption metrics
- Closing the loop with experiments, feedback, and documentation-driven product decisions
Let's connect
I'm always interested in discussing documentation architecture, AI-native content strategies, and building developer experiences that scale.