About Me

As a Technical Documentation Specialist, I’m not just about explaining how things work – I’m all about enhancing developer and user experiences.

With a knack for developing and implementing new processes, guidelines, and cutting-edge tools, I’ve led transformative changes in technical documentation.

With a strong background in open-source projects and a dedication to elevating the Developer Experience (DX), I’m here to revolutionize how we perceive and interact with technical documentation.

Experiences

Technical Documentation Specialist

January 2023 - Present
Traefik Labs
  • Developed new documentation processes, guidelines, and tooling, resulting in faster deploys, consistent documentation and enhanced user experience.
  • Created new content and documentation structure for various projects, resulting to enhanced user experience based on good practices and user research.
  • Integrated AI-based search into documentation and integrated custom search and search scraper with Typesense, leading to better and consistent search results.
  • Established screenshot automatization for consistent UI documentation, improving the documentation with always up-to-date screenshots.
  • Designed and implemented a fully automated “Docs as Code” CI/CD pipeline, reducing deployment time by 80% and increasing the general quality of the documentation.

Developer Experience Lead

December 2020 - December 2022
Onna
  • Developed and introduced new processes, guidelines, and tooling for documentation and developer experience (internal and external).
  • Created templates and tooling for unified READMEs and documentation, resulting in consistent setups and faster developer onboarding.
  • Introduced new CI setups and pipelines with faster checks and builds, reducing time to deploy.
  • Developed API design and test processes leading to consistent APIs with enhanced developer experience.
  • Created company-wide Developer Handbook, to enhance and ease onboarding.
  • Implemented good practices for Docker, Docker Compose, and Podman and introduced custom linting, resulting in smaller and more secure images which reduced the build and deploy time.

DocOps Engineer

December 2019 - September 2020
Pronovix
  • Developed, deployed and maintained quality assurance guides for APIs and documentation, improving the general quality.
  • Created custom Docker images and Docker Compose setups for showcasing “Docs as Code” resulting in enhanced customer demos.
  • Consulted customers about “Docs as Code” solutions and implementations leading to faster deploys, higher quality of documentation and enhanced developer experience.

DevOps Engineer

September 2019 - October 2019
Sloppy
  • Implemented and maintained automated build and deployment processes based on CentOS, DC/OS, and Docker.
  • Reduced deployment times by enhancing, creating and maintaining Ansible playbooks and roles.
  • Provided technical support to development teams for applications deployments.

DevOps Engineer

March 2018 - September 2019
Wundertax
  • Developed and maintained AWS cloud infrastructure for web applications.
  • Managed deployments in Kubernetes with Deis, resulting in more consistent and faster deploys.
  • Introduced guidelines and automated QA checks for Docker images, improving the size, security and deploy time.

DevOps Engineer

2010 - March 2018
Milieudefensie

Managed cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines for web applications.

  • Designed and implemented a fully automated CI/CD pipeline, reducing deployment time by 50% and increasing deployment frequency by 75%.
  • Developed and maintained scripts for system automation, reducing manual intervention by 60% and increasing system efficiency by 40%.

System Administrator and Support

2009
Toltech/AccelCloud

Developer

2008
Contactivity

System Administrator

2007
Waag Society, Institute for Art, Science and Technology

OSS Contributions

In my free time, I love to contribute to the following open-source projects and communities:

Plone - Plone is an open-source content management system (CMS).
Traefik - Traefik is an open-source Edge Router that makes publishing your services a fun and easy experience.
Write the Docs - A global community of people who care about documentation.

Skills & Proficiency

OpenAPI, GraphQL (and related tooling for documentation, designing, mocking and testing)

Developer Portals and API Gateways (Kong, Tyk, Traefik Hub, Stoplight, Redoc, ReadMe)

Documentation tools (Sphinx, MkDocs, AsciiDoc, GitBook, Docusaurus, etc)

Static blog engines (Hugo, Pelican, Jekyll)

CI (Jenkins, Travis, CircleCI, Drone, GitHub Actions)

Web server (Nginx, Apache, Caddy, Lighttpd)

Packaging (deb, rpm, aur, nix, brew)

Deployment (Ansible, Puppet, Salt, etc)

Infra tools (Packer, Terraform)

Hosting (KVM, XEN, OpenVZ, LXC/LXD, K8s)

Container (Docker, Docker Compose, Podman)

Container hosting (CoreOS, Rancher, K8s, Portainer)

Languages (Golang, Markdown, Bash, reST, Python)

Monitoring (Nagios, Sensu, Icinga, Zabbix, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog)