About

Professional experience

  1. Technical Writing Expert

    OTTO – present

    • Lead a team of 6 technical writers laterally, enabling 100+ engineering teams.
    • Built communication practices that reduced friction across engineering and kept teams aligned as the organization grew.
    • Build knowledge structures that work for both humans and AI.
    • Partner with engineering, product, and leadership on developer experience, knowledge sharing, and AI initiatives.
    • Share expertise both internally and externally through talks and at conferences.
    • Mentor colleagues and promote best practices in technical communication.
  2. Senior Technical Writer

    OTTO –

    • Established the technical writer role within the company and built the team.
    • Built a knowledge ecosystem that made information consistent, easy to find, and shared across teams.
    • Grew communities around technical communication and knowledge sharing.
    • Improved content discoverability and usability for developer audiences.
    • Made APIs and internal products easier to understand and adopt for developers.
  3. Senior Product Manager / API Product Owner

    OTTO –

    • Owned vision and roadmap for OTTO’s Consumer API portal.
    • Grounded priorities in user research with developers.
    • Worked with engineering and product to improve API quality and consistency.
    • Established review processes and standards that raised the bar for API quality.
  4. Senior Process Manager

    OTTO –

    • Pioneered technical writing at OTTO: identified audiences and built buy-in.
    • Introduced API guidelines and built an internal API community.
    • Raised awareness for high-quality, usable APIs through hands-on collaboration with product, engineering, and leadership.
  5. Technical Writer

    ePages –

    • Made the platform usable for developers, merchants, and customers, from API content to UI texts and help resources.
    • Built a developer portal with engineering and product, and led developer experience and content strategy.
    • Built and ran the localization process.
    • Bridged engineering and product, and mentored young talent.
    • Contributed to employer branding, blogging, and the tech community.
  6. Technical Writer

    Tchibo –

    • Created product content for non-food products, in close exchange with quality and localization.
  7. Technical Writer

    Suzlon Wind Energy –

    • Enabled field engineers to transport, commission, and operate wind turbine generators with clear, step-by-step guidance.
    • Made turbine software understandable for the people operating it.
    • Built a shared terminology and coordinated translations into multiple languages.
  8. Technical Writer

    Tanner AG –

    • Technical communication projects across multiple industries.

Education

  1. Graduate Technical Translator

    University of Hildesheim

Languages

German
Native
English
Fluent
Spanish
Good

Tools and technologies