Besides writing, editing, and reviewing content, I am supporting engineers to write and tell their stories through the Scaler Writer program — helping with everything from finding the narrative hook to creating structure and improving writing. I work closely with engineers throughout the Scaleway ecosystem as well as with my colleagues in DevRel.
About Me
Hi! I’m Kai, and I would love to build and grow your company’s technical content department! I have a strategic mindset and a knack for understanding and communicating technical topics. I’m an enabler at heart and can help your engineers create developer-focused content that matters for your audience.
Aside from providing engineers with editorial support, I create fantastic content of all types (blog posts, live streams, podcasts, etc.). I’m also a skilled interviewer, thanks to my background in journalism, my endless curiosity and eagerness to learn new things and, last but not at all least, my innate empathy.
I enjoy public speaking and am a natural networker. I’m involved and volunteer in various online tech communities and have a keen interest in Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI), mental health, and neurodiversity.
Watch my most recent talk “How to Talk About Mental Health Without Losing Your Mind” at You Got This Broadcasting Service Conference.
Work Experience
I help startups and entrepreneurs shape their brand and find their voice and values. Services include tone of voice workshops, brainstorming content strategy, re/structuring websites, copy creation, and inclusive language audits. I can also guide other writers with copy coaching and constructive editing.
Dialogue in the Dark is a social business providing empowering job opportunities for blind and visually impaired people and educating the public about what it is like to be blind. I handled PR and marketing responsibilities, created content for the website and social media, created and spearheaded ad content, liaised with journalists and helped run events.
Skill3D is Austria’s biggest eSports agency specialising in eSport and gaming events. As Skill3D’s first ever PR hire, I set up press work procedures at the company. I wrote press releases and blog posts, monitored media coverage, managed media contacts, and liaised with journalists during our events. I also initiated and organised the “Games Don’t Kill” exhibition at Museumsquartier Wien in June 2009, which attracted a lot of attention and was covered by multiple media outlets.
Wiener Zeitung is one of Austria’s biggest (and oldest) national broadsheets. I worked in the Local/Vienna department, creating a wide range of content. I wrote daily content, often on a very short deadline, but also created extensive, research-based features on topics such as youth trends, extreme sports, environmental issues and technology. I liaised with contacts, covered press conferences, occasionally co-authored pieces with colleagues, and edited and proofread other people’s work on a daily basis.
Education
Class Central’s Web Development Bootcamp
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FreeCodeCamp/Class Central remote
In 2022 I completed Class Central’s Web Development Bootcamp. Over the course of six weeks, I learned HTML and CSS through the combination of FreeCodeCamp’s self-paced New Responsive Web Design classes and live-streamed lessons by Jessica Rose. I’ve finished multiple projects varying in scope and have also engaged in my cohort’s Discord channel, where I tried to help out others wherever I could — which, in turn, has also helped my own learning progress. At this point in time, I just have to hand in my very last project.
Diploma in Digital Filmmaking
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Filmschule Wien Vienna, AT
During this comprehensive course in Digital Filmmaking, I focused on script writing and directing and made my first short film called Snapped, a story about two young women who find a way of communicating with each other through art.
MA in Journalism & Media Management
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FH Wien Vienna, AT
During my studies, I acquired further knowledge about journalistic methods and honed my writing skills. In my thesis, I explored the effects of lobbying efforts on reaching marriage equality in Austria.
Volunteering & Own Projects
Taboola Rasa is a non-profit mental health advocacy project I started in 2016. Taboola Rasa seeks to create awareness for mental health experiences and neurodivergence and erase the stigma attached to them by interviewing people and sharing their stories with the world.
As part of the TEDxVienna group of volunteers, I played a significant part in organising three separate conferences in 2014. I was involved in communication and PR work but also ensured the show went smoothly as the stage manager for the main conference, “Brave New Space”.
Fun facts about me
- Started working as a journalist when I was 16
- Gigged as a stage manager on live TV broadcasts while in school and uni
- Almost became a professional bassoonist
- Wild swimming all year round (yes, even in winter!)
Skills
- Developer-Focused Content
- Content Strategy
- Editorial
- Interviews
- Public Speaking
- Live-Streaming
- HTML & CSS
- Python
- Culture, Branding & Tone of Voice
Languages
- German (native)
- English (native equivalent)
- Italian (intermediate (used to be fluent))
- Hungarian (second mother tongue, very rusty)
- I Also Speak Dev (fluent)