Gary Niemen
Senior Technical Writer at Volvo Cars
Katrineholm, Sweden
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Top SchoolGary Niemen is a Senior Technical Writer with decades of leadership in documentation, currently improving developer experience at Volvo Cars. He has a strong track record building documentation teams and processes from the ground up, shipping developer-focused tools and golden-path tutorials at Spotify and earlier delivering comprehensive product tutorials and getting-started guides across fintech and enterprise software. Gary combines hands-on writing with product management and agile coaching, having led the launch and open-sourcing of internal docs-as-code tools and search features that improved discoverability for thousands of engineers. Comfortable in both technical and managerial roles, he has hired and scaled distributed teams, worked closely with engineering to simplify complex systems, and even doubled down on tutorial programs that materially increased adoption. Based in Katrineholm, Sweden, he pairs a computing science background with psychology study, giving him a practical edge in designing usable documentation and developer workflows. Notably, his consulting stint achieved nearly 100% utilization through word-of-mouth, reflecting strong client trust and delivery.
5 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Psychology 60 points, Assignments 79%, Exam 71%, Psychology 60 points, Assignments 79%, Exam 71% at The Open UniversityIlford County High School for BoysComputing Science, Computing, Computing Science, Computing at Aston University
Swedish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (19)
backstage10
infrastructure10
dx10
service-catalog10
microservices10
graphql6
github-api6
github6
netlify5
python3
react3
mkdocs-material3
ruby3
cicd2
mkdocs2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
backstage/backstage
Sep 2020 - Aug 2022
Backstage is an open framework for building developer portals
Contributions:5 reviews, 11 commits, 9 PRs in 1 year 11 months
portalsinfrastructureopen-platformdxbackstage
justwriteclick/docs-like-code-stories
Nov 2020 - Nov 2020
Collection of use cases for Docs Like Code website
Contributions:4 reviews, 1 commit, 1 PR in 1 day
docs-like-codecasesuse-cases
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