Kay Ploesser
Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolKay Plößer is a technical writer and software engineer with 12 years of experience spanning web analytics, cybersecurity, cloud/SaaS, AI/LLMs, and Web3/blockchain. She combines hands-on dev skills—authoring a popular React-from-zero tutorial and building TypeScript crawlers for Arweave—with a proven knack for growing tech blogs to 10K+ readers and running developer-focused content and social channels. Currently contributing to TON Foundation and leading technical writing at Futex Labs, she bridges developer relations, documentation, and research engineering roles across startups and foundations. Her work includes editing AI-generated content to reduce hallucinations and producing developer docs, white papers, and tutorials that make complex systems approachable. Based in Stuttgart, she mentors upcoming technical writers and maintains active open-source contributions that emphasize practical front-end and Web3 tooling.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science at FernUniversität in HagenBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science and Media, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science and Media at Stuttgart Media University
German, English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
4,103reputation
475kreached
43answers
135questions
Github Skills (15)
javascript10
react10
jsx10
babel-core9
front-end-development9
babel69
babeljs9
aws-appsync6
html6
extjs6
websocket6
amazon-cloudfront6
php6
react-hooks6
aws-cdk6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
kay-is/react-from-zero
Oct 2015 - Jan 2019
A simple (99% ES2015 less) tutorial for React
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:31 commits, 18 PRs, 44 pushes in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Kay primarily contributed to the front-end development of a React tutorial. Their commits involve updates to various HTML files that demonstrate React concepts and usage. These commits included additions and modifications to React components, JSX syntax, and integration of libraries like React DOM, and Babel.
reactjsjavascriptreact
kay-is/awesome-tagged-templates
Jan 2019 - Mar 2021
Contributions:19 commits, 4 PRs, 18 pushes in 2 years 2 months
tagged-templatejavascriptlearning-resourcesliteralstagged-template-literals
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