Joseph Kato

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Joseph Kato is the original creator and sole maintainer of Vale, a suite of open-source tools for automated prose linting and documentation quality. Used by Microsoft, GitLab, Docker, and more, Vale has over 1 million downloads and helps documentation teams enforce consistent, inclusive, and high-quality writing at scale.

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