Ayomide Yissa · Documentation & Systems · Lagos, Nigeria
A bit about me
Writing taught me to start with the audience. What's their pain point? What do they actually need? Once I have that, I think about structure and how to present the information in a way that meets the user where they are. That's what I do, whether I'm writing a doc, designing an information system, or figuring out why something isn't connecting.
Two things I do
Documentation & Information Architecture
I design how organisations structure and deliver information. Creating dev docs, API references, knowledge bases. I don't just write docs, I understand how it fits into the bigger picture.
Docs-as-Code · Diataxis · Taxonomy
Systems & Operations Design
I design the systems that organisations run on—structuring how information is organised, how work flows, and how processes scale as things grow. I design systems that are structured, repeatable, and built for long-term use.
HubSpot · Zapier · Airtable · Apps Script
Selected work
Documentation · API reference
Finance API Documentation
Full API reference, authentication guide, and endpoint documentation for a financial data product.
Documentation · Open source
NBA-API Package Documentation
Designed and published community documentation for the NBA-API Python package, filling a gap in the open source project.
IA Audit · Coming soon
Information Architecture Audit in progress
A full IA review of a real product — current structure, where users get lost, and a proposed redesign.
I'm looking for a full-time remote role — as an information architect, technical writer, or operations specialist — helping teams bring structure and clarity to how information is organised and how work gets done.
A selection of documentation projects, systems I've designed, and operational infrastructure I've built. Case studies go into the thinking behind the work, not just the output.
Documentation · API reference
Finance API Documentation
Full API reference documentation for a financial data product — including authentication flows, endpoint references, parameter tables, and example responses. Built in Gitbook with a focus on developer usability.
Documentation · Open source
NBA-API Package Documentation
Community documentation for the NBA-API Python package — an open source project that lacked a proper reference. Designed the IA, wrote the guides and endpoint references, and deployed the site. Also wrote an accompanying tutorial on using the package.
Documentation · Open source contribution
MindsDB IBM-db2 Integration Docs
Contributed the IBM-db2 integration documentation to the MindsDB open source project — covering setup, configuration, and usage with the MindsDB AI layer.
IA Audit · In progress
Information Architecture Audit coming soon
A full IA review of a real product — mapping the current structure, identifying where users get lost, and proposing a redesigned architecture with before/after diagrams.
Articles on documentation strategy, knowledge base design, systems thinking, and operations. I write to figure things out as much as to explain them.
KnowledgeOwl · Documentation strategy
Calculating the ROI of Documentation
How to measure the business value of documentation — and make the case for investing in it properly.
KnowledgeOwl · Knowledge base design
Help Centers as the Foundation of Excellent Service
Why a well-structured help centre isn't a support tool — it's a product decision with company-wide implications.
KnowledgeOwl · Documentation craft
Optimizing Visuals in Technical Documentation
When images help, when they hurt, and how to make the call.
Ayo's Notebook · Operations thinking
Stakeholder Management
What I've learned about managing up, across, and through — from inside the work.
Ayo's Notebook · Systems thinking
Measuring Before Change Matters More Than You Think
Why the baseline you establish before making a change is often more valuable than the measurement you take after.
Hashnode · Technical writing
Predictive Maintenance with Machine Learning
Process, challenges, and insights from documenting a complex ML application for a non-specialist audience.
Five years across writing, systems, and operations — and still asking the same question.
I started my career as a writer — curious about how complex things worked and obsessed with explaining them clearly. That instinct led me into technical writing, where I discovered something more interesting than writing itself: the systems underneath the words.
Documentation lives inside processes. A knowledge base is only as good as the information architecture holding it together. A tutorial only makes sense if the product workflow it describes actually works. The more I wrote, the more I found myself redesigning the systems I was documenting.
Over the past five years, that instinct has taken me from writing API references and developer guides to building the operational infrastructure that organisations run on — CRM pipelines, workflow automations, progress-tracking systems. I've come into early-stage companies and created the structure that didn't exist yet: the frameworks, the tools, the processes, the documentation.
Along the way I interned on what's considered the best-selling technical writing manual of all time at Boffin Education, contributed to open source documentation projects including MindsDB and The Good Docs Project, and have been a regular contributor to KnowledgeOwl — writing about documentation strategy and knowledge base design.
I think of myself as someone who connects the dots. I take a complex system, ask why it isn't clearer, and build something that makes it so. I'm at the stage of my career where I want to go deep — to join a team with real structure, bring everything I've learned, and grow into the best version of what I do.
What I'm looking for
A full-time role — as an information architect, technical writer, or operations specialist — at an organisation that's clear about where it's going and serious about developing its people.
Role titles that fit what I do: Information Architect, Documentation Engineer, Technical Writer, Knowledge Systems Lead, Technical Program Manager, Operations Specialist. I'm more interested in the problem than the title.
Tools & skills
Documentation & IA
Operations & Systems