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James Whitford

Pretoria, South Africa

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Technical Writing Portfolio

As a Frontend Developer, Software Technical Writer, and AI-native practitioner at Ritza, I develop full-stack applications, build production AI workflows, and create comprehensive technical documentation for industry-leading technology companies.

I work daily with agentic systems, multi-agent patterns, RAG pipelines, and automation tools, using Claude Code as my primary development environment.

This hands-on experience producing real software alongside the documentation that explains it ensures authentic, code-backed content that drives user adoption and consistently achieves top search rankings.

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Letta

AI agent memory platform (stateful, long-term memory agents)

Feature Documentation

SDK Migration & Audits

Tech Stackups

Ritza's own site - developer tool comparisons and AI guides

Bryntum

Scheduling and project management UI component library

Sourcegraph

Code intelligence and developer productivity platform

Code Capsules

South African cloud hosting platform for developers

Replit

Browser-based IDE and collaborative coding platform

Technical Documentation

Release

Ephemeral environment platform for software teams

Cerebrium

Serverless ML inference platform

Sentry

Application monitoring and error tracking platform