2017–2018: As the first API technical writer in Booking.com’s Partner Services department, I was responsible for the entire API documentation process, including planning, writing, visual design, and (automated) testing. I also advised other teams on documentation best practices, and ran technical writing workshops for non-writers.

2020: After a little more than a year in Tokyo, I rejoined Booking.com to pioneer the documentation process, tooling, and information architecture for their payments platform.

I moved from Amsterdam to Tokyo to join LINE’s developer documentation team, where I wrote and reviewed English content, oversaw translations, and evangelized documentation tools and methods to teams across the APAC region.

As Visit by GES’s first and only technical writer, I produced, from scratch, a technical documentation set and suitable information architecture for the development team and beyond. As a Works Council member, I helped draft statutes and oversaw office renovations.

As part of Visma Software’s technical writing team, I wrote technical (DITA XML) content for diverse target audiences (basic users, sysadmins, developers) using a variety of formats and tools (OxyGen, MadCap Flare). I also founded a Terminology Management Special Interest Group and laid the foundations for a TM process still in place today.

Ran own translation company, specializing in content related to games and music.

Specialization: Writing & translation

Specialization: Bass guitar

Specialization: Linguistics

  HTML, CSS & JavaScript

  OpenAPI/Swagger

  Regular expression

  Visual Basic & Python

  MadCap Flare

  JIRA & Confluence

  Mkdocs, VuePress & other SSG

  Git, SubVersion & other VCS

  Dutch (native)

  English

  Markdown, ReStructured Text & ASCIIdoc

  German

  French

  Japanese

Listening to Paul Simon, reading Terry Pratchett, watching Wes Anderson films, playing the electric guitar