Heidi Waterhouse

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Heidi Waterhouse

Senior Technical Product Marketer, Octopus Deploy · verified 2026-07-24

Heidi Waterhouse spent a couple of decades as a technical writer at Microsoft, Dell Software, LaunchDarkly, and many, many startups, learning to communicate with and for developers. She coauthored Docs for Developers: An Engineer’s Field Guide to Technical Writing. She is passionate about storytelling, finding business value, and the ROI of laptop stickers. When she’s not helping craft startup messaging, you can find her in her sewing room listening to a book. She lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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2025

BookProgressive Delivery

with James Governor, Kim Harrison & Adam Zimman

2025

TalkProgressive Delivery

Las Vegas 2025 · 28 min

2019

TalkLightning Talk: The Devil's DevOps

London 2019 · 5 min