Curriculum vitae #

Jobs #

Product manager: cybersecurity | Google, Zürich
Oct 2025 - now Detecting threats against the company.
Product manager: rollouts | Google, Zürich
Apr 2022 - Sep 2025 (3.5y)
Making Google’s internal deployment system more usable and easier to debug.

Senior technical writer | Google, Zürich
Aug 2019 - Apr 2022 (2.5y)
Helping Site Reliability Engineers get stuff done.
Technical writing and documentation lead | Digital Asset, Zürich
Sep 2018 - Aug 2019 (1y)
Working out how to teach people Haskell.
Lead technical writer | Improbable, London
Aug 2016 - Aug 2018 (2y)
Helping games developers build new worlds.
Technical and UX writer | Ocado Technology, Hatfield
Jan 2016 - Jul 2016 (7m)
Usability for an end-to-end grocery delivery platform.
Technical author | Redgate Software, Cambridge (UK)
Oct 2012 - Jan 2016 (3.5y) Docs and UX writing for all sorts of SQL Server tools.

Co-founder and organiser | Coffeehouse Conference
Apr 2025 - now
Newsletter editor | Write the Docs
Oct 2018 - Apr 2022 (3.5y)
Putting together WTD’s monthly newsletter.

For more info on what I actually did in these jobs, see Linkedin.

BA History | University of Oxford
Oct 2009 - Jun 2012
Ask me about Jacobites.