Mike Unwalla
Principal Technical Writer at TechScribe
Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMike Unwalla is a Principal Technical Writer with over two decades of experience turning complex, safety-critical procedures and software documentation into clear, usable content. Based in Sheffield, he specializes in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English, controlled language, controlled vocabulary and language QA to help international audiences and regulated industries reduce risk and user error. As founder of TechScribe he combines hands-on text simplification, term-checking tools and documentation benchmarking to improve product usability and support outcomes. His background includes end-to-end documentation ownership in software firms and early research in language analysis, giving him a rare mix of linguistic rigor and practical engineering-minded documentation. Not obvious from his title: he designs tooling and processes (not just prose) to embed controlled language across organisations, improving consistency at scale.
10 years of coding experience
PhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at The University of SheffieldASD Simplified Technical English ASD-STE100, ASD Simplified Technical English ASD-STE100 at UNINETTUNO, Italy
Turkish
Github Skills (8)
languagetool10
grammar10
checker10
natural-language-processing10
java10
xml1
microsoft1
xml-editor1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
MikeUnwalla/languagetool
Mar 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:1 PR, 7 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
grammarlanguagesgrammar-checkerchecker
languagetool-org/languagetool
Apr 2016 - Jan 2023
Style and Grammar Checker for 25+ Languages
Contributions:4 reviews, 2683 commits, 28 PRs in 6 years 10 months
style-checkergrammar-checkercheckergrammarlanguagetool
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