I’m Laura Kassovic. I started as an electrical engineer, spent a decade running a hardware company, and now I write documentation for a build tool.

At Intel I did post-silicon validation on Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge, then logic design for the DDR PHY on Atom SoCs. In 2013 I left to start MbientLab, which built Bluetooth motion sensors and shipped more than two and a half million of them before we began winding it down this year. Along the way I co-created Beacon, an eddy current probe for 3D printers, with my husband Matt.

Somewhere in there I worked out that the part of all this I liked most was explaining it. I took a technical writing job at Unit21, a fintech startup, and built their documentation from nothing. Since 2023 I have been at Gradle, where I look after the documentation for a build tool whose docs get well over a million visits a month, and increasingly do developer advocacy alongside it.

The timeline on the home page lays it out, and each era has a post behind it.

This site is where my thoughts go.