Florian Scholz

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I'm Florian (he/him) and you've found my CV.

Florian Scholz — Photo of Florian in March 2024.

I'm focused on technical writing & documentation engineering, especially for web technologies and web compatibility.

Since late 2009, my main contribution is to build web platform documentation and tooling for web developers, most notably on MDN Web Docs – a resource about web platform technologies for web developers & designers worldwide.

In 2021, I co-founded Open Web Docs for which I'm currently serving as the Director.

I live in Bremen, Germany. You can contact me via Mail, Mastodon, or LinkedIn.

Experience

Director, Open Web Docs

Full-time, March 2024 – today

Chairing the Open Web Docs Steering Committee
Leading a team of staff technical writers
Prioritizing documentation work, create roadmaps, and milestones
Exploring funding opportunities and partnerships
Growing and maintaining a community of contributors actively involved in web platform documentation

Content Lead, Open Web Docs

Full-time, November 2020 – February 2024 (3 years and 4 months)

Chairing the Open Web Docs Steering Committee
Technical writing & documentation engineering contributions to MDN Web Docs
Prioritizing documentation work, create roadmaps, and milestones
Growing and maintaining a community of contributors actively involved in web platform documentation

MDN Content Lead, Mozilla

Full-time, May 2020 – October 2020 (5 months)

Defining the high-level MDN content strategy, curating the MDN content roadmap
Intelligence gathering on Firefox and Web platform updates that will require documentation
Planning Firefox release documentation (release notes)
Technical Writing (maintainer ECMAScript docs, HTTP docs, and various Web API docs)
Project and technical lead of mdn-browser-compat-data ("BCD")

Staff Technical Writer, Mozilla

Full-time, October 2013 - May 2020 (6 years 8 months)

Project owner of mdn-browser-compat-data (compat data used on MDN, caniuse, VS Code, Firefox Devtools, and others)
Responsible for documenting the ECMAScript/JavaScript programming language. Complete documentation refactor for the release of ES6 in 2015.
Curating and planning Web platform content
Co-creator of MDN HTTP docs
Designing content structures and information architecture
Helping localization teams and supporting the MDN volunteer community

MDN Web Docs Contributor, Volunteer

Part-time, December 2009 - October 2013 (3 years 11 months)

Documenting HTML5 and CSS3 Web technologies
Documenting MathML
Giving feedback on MDN's wiki engine (Kuma)
Refactoring MDN content macros (KumaScript templates)
Translating MDN content into German

Software Engineering, hmmh multimediahaus AG

Full-time, August 2010 - October 2013 (3 years 3 months)

Software engineering internship. Judged 98% (A) by the IHK jury.
E-commerce systems and CMS development (TYPO3, Magento, PHP/MySQL, JavaScript)

Projects

mdn/content (Maintainer)
mdn/browser-compat-data (Maintainer, see also caniuse collaboration)
openwebdocs/mdn-bcd-collector (Maintainer)
web-platform-dx/web-features (Maintainer)
MDN documentation linting (Mentor, Google Summer of Code 2017)