Lars Wilhelmer
Documentation Engineer
Barsbüttel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolLars Wilhelmer is a Documentation Engineer with eight years of professional experience who champions a docs-as-code approach and brings strong HTML/CSS/JS expertise to developer-facing documentation. He has progressed from technical writer roles to technical architect responsibilities at Basler AG and now leads documentation efforts at Talon.One, blending product thinking with precise technical communication. Holding an academic background with a PhD in German Literature from the University of Hamburg, he pairs rigorous research and editorial skills with modern web-first docs tooling. Colleagues know him as a technical documentation nerd who elevates developer experience by treating docs as maintainable code and by building interactive, web-native documentation.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) German Literature Studies, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) German Literature Studies at University of Hamburg
German, English, French, Swedish
Github Skills (70)
python-markdown10
python10
visual-studio10
markdown10
editor10
electron10
typescript10
vscode-extension10
vscode10
documentation10
visual-studio-code10
microsoft10
mkdocs10
plugin10
minify10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
wilhelmer/mdx_custom_span_class
May 2019 - Jan 2023
Simple module for Python-Markdown which allows inserting text with custom class
Contributions:1 release, 4 commits, 1 PR in 3 years 8 months
pythonmarkdownpython-markdown
wilhelmer/mkdocs-localsearch
Sep 2019 - Jan 2023
A MkDocs plugin to make the native "search" plugin work locally (file:// protocol)
Contributions:9 releases, 1 review, 54 commits in 3 years 4 months
mkdocsmkdocs-pluginlocallysearch-pluginplugin
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