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About

About

A Few Words About Me

Hello. I'm Dachary Carey. I build things that help developers succeed.

By day, I work on agent experience (AX) at NVIDIA, helping products become agent-ready by measuring how AI agents discover, use, and recover when working with NVIDIA technologies. That means designing agent-readiness evals with product teams, testing agent-facing surfaces like Agent Skills and docs discoverability empirically, and turning what we learn into practical guidance teams can act on.

Independently, I maintain open source specs and tools for agent-friendly developer content. I wrote the Agent-Friendly Documentation Spec and its reference implementation, afdocs. CNCF's CLOMonitor uses afdocs for its agent-readiness checks, the Linux Foundation is building docs scoring for LFX Insights on it, Cloudflare tests its docs against it, and hosted scoring tools from Fern, Mintlify, and Document360 are built on it. I also built skill-validator, which checks Agent Skills in CI at Intel, MongoDB, Confluent, Redis, Netlify, and many other orgs.

By night (and weekends), I build apps. I've shipped PR Focus, a macOS app for managing pull request reviews, and I'm working on a few iOS apps that scratch various personal itches. I write Go libraries for semantic diffing, CLI tools for documentation auditing, and whatever else solves a problem I'm having.

I also love coffee. Good coffee, though. None of this mass-produced Dunkin' Donuts swill. (Yes, I live in New England and am well-aware of the blasphemy in that statement. I stand by it.)

The Path Here

I've been a professional writer for over 18 years - starting with freelance work in 2007, then pivoting to software documentation in 2016. I joined MongoDB's Developer Education team in 2021 as the first writer on a team of developers.

That role pushed me to grow. I went from documenting SDKs to building testing infrastructure. From writing code examples to building tools that audit 35,000+ code examples across 40+ repositories. The line between "technical writer" and "developer" got blurry, and I discovered I liked it that way. I finished my 5.5 years at MongoDB as quality owner for the company's first official Agent Skills, and in 2026 that work led me to NVIDIA, where I now work on agent experience for the developer experience team.

I'm driven by curiosity - when I encounter a system or ecosystem, I want to understand how it actually works, not just how it's supposed to work. That impulse has led me from building audit tooling to conducting ecosystem-scale research: analyzing hundreds of data points, identifying patterns, and publishing findings. The tools I build often start as "I want to understand this" and end up as something others can use too.

These days, my work sits at the intersection of development, communication, and analysis. I build tools, I write documentation, I investigate ecosystems, and I help other people do all of it more effectively. I also write commentary and analysis about the agent ecosystem at AE Shift. For more on my documentation background, see Documentation & Developer Education.

The Personal Stuff

I'm married to the inestimable Kay Rhodes. We have two dogs (Lita, a Lab/Beagle mix, and Maui, an English Springer Spaniel), and a cat (Ash, a Maine Coon). I talk about them maybe a little more than I should.

I live on a beautiful property in a rural area, where I get to putter around with my tractor and do various projects. I'm big into DIY - from converting an ambulance to an RV, to wrenching on my motorcycles, to whatever project the house demands this week. I play D&D, paint minis, and I'm a great baker. Let me make you some cookies sometime.

Get in Touch

You can find me on GitHub, LinkedIn, or Mastodon. I occasionally write about development and documentation on this blog.