Tanja Roth
Team Lead Linux Documentation Team
Greater Nuremberg Metropolitan Area Germany
Summary
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SeniorTanja Roth is a seasoned technical writing leader with 16 years of experience bridging language and technology across mechanical engineering, medical devices, and IT. As Team Lead for the Linux Documentation Team at SUSE, she focuses on clarity, accuracy, and usability in complex open-source ecosystems, including hands-on contributions to the OpenStack manuals. Comfortable working with distributed, cross-disciplinary teams, she excels at turning dense technical material into readable, actionable guides. Her background as a drum circle facilitator underscores a unique strength in human-centered collaboration and rhythm-based facilitation methods. That blend of communication craft and community-minded leadership helps her foster both high-quality documentation and engaged contributor networks. Based in the Greater Nuremberg area, she pairs meticulous editorial skills with practical open-source experience to improve developer and operator workflows.
16 years of coding experience
German, English, French, Italian
Github Skills (7)
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openstack10
restructuredtext10
documentation10
opensuse7
suse7
linux7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/openstack-manuals
Jan 2015 - Oct 2016
OpenStack Manuals. Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:16 commits in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Tanja's commits primarily focus on improving the documentation within the OpenStack manuals repository. Their contributions involve correcting copy-and-paste errors, fixing typos, adding missing markup, and reorganizing the structure of the documentation. Furthermore, the user demonstrates a strong understanding of the OpenStack project by updating SUSE-specific snippets and correcting element names within the guides. These changes enhance the clarity, accuracy, and overall readability of the OpenStack documentation.
manualsopendevopenstack
openSUSE/doc-kit
Nov 2018 - Feb 2023
Initialize & update DAPS-based docs
Contributions:36 reviews, 27 commits, 54 PRs in 4 years 4 months
initializeupdatepythondaps
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