Nadine Spies
Technical Writer Team Lead at solo.io
Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolNadine Spies is a Technical Writer Team Lead with over 16 years of experience modernizing IT environments and translating complex cloud-native and financial systems into clear, actionable documentation. She has led distributed, international teams to deliver high-quality docs, automation, and content strategies for hybrid and multi-cloud platforms including Kubernetes, OpenShift, Terraform, and Ansible. Her background as a consultant and test manager in financial markets gives her a rare blend of deep technical rigor and audit-ready process design, from SQL-driven data validation to end-to-end migration and decommissioning plans. Nadine pairs hands-on verification—testing docs against consoles, CLIs, and APIs—with product-focused improvements like UX copy and error-message tuning to reduce support friction. Now at solo.io, she continues to drive developer-facing content and operational excellence for cloud-native tooling, while her career-long emphasis on measurable QA and automation quietly ensures documentation is as testable as code. Based in Mount Pleasant, SC, she brings both strategic leadership and a practitioner’s attention to detail.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Arts - BA with First Class Honors, Business Information Systems, Bachelor of Arts - BA with First Class Honors, Business Information Systems at The Open UniversityDiploma, Business Information Systems, Diploma, Business Information Systems at Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg (DHBW) Mosbach
English, French, Polish, German
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Github Skills (109)
api-management10
hugo-theme10
ibm-cloud10
terraform10
serverless10
kong10
microservices10
cloud-native10
api10
golang10
grpc10
documentation-theme10
kubernetes10
envoyproxy10
gateway10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
kgateway-dev/kgateway.dev
Nov 2024 - Apr 2025
kgateway website
Contributions:92 reviews, 38 PRs, 74 pushes in 4 months
solo-io/docs-theme-lotus
Sep 2023 - Dec 2024
📖 A free, lightweight, modern documentation theme for Hugo [WIP]
Contributions:27 releases, 8 reviews, 39 PRs in 1 year 3 months
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