Stefan Meißner

Staff Tech Writer at commercetools GmbH

Berlin, Berlin, Germany

About

I started as a telecom engineer installing twisted pair cables underground and overground. Decided pretty soon to study further electronic engineering, communication science and computer science. I specialized in open communication systems, human computer interaction and knowledge engineering. After setting up a support team that assists developers in realizing their projects with the commercetools platform, I am now focussing on extending the developer documentation together with my coworkers in a growing team.

Experience

  • commercetools (11 yrs 3 mos)
    • Staff Technical Writer
      Jan 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 6 mos

    • Technical Writer
      Jul 2021 - Dec 2022 · 1 yr 6 mos

      Writing API documentation.

    • Platform Support Manager
      Sep 2016 - Jun 2021 · 4 yrs 10 mos

      Providing technical support for our customers and partners, leading a team of support engineers, hiring new and onboarding new team members. Handling communication with customers during incidents. Planning on-call shifts and coordinating on-call schedules. Setting up and maintaining cross-team support processes. Implementing tool support for processes.

  • Software Developer at Freelancer
    Jan 2015 - Mar 2015 · 3 mos

    Customisation of a standard Customer Relationship Management for veterinaries

  • Research Fellow at University of Surrey
    Oct 2006 - Dec 2014 · 8 yrs 3 mos

    I have developed several proof-of-concept demonstrators mainly in Java. - contributed to the specification of several ontologies, e.g. in the context of Semantic Sensor Web Ontology and Device Descriptions (developed for SENSEI and Smart Santander projects) - Semantic Query Resolver: a service composition and look-up engine for semantic web services annotated in RDF/OWL, specified query interface using SPARQL - implemented Object Factory for generic RESTful web services endpoints using Noelios' Restlet framework - I was deeply involved in the specification of the Architectural Reference Model for the Internet of Things described in the book 'Enabling Things to talk'. (main outcome of lighthouse project IoT-A) - refactored situation observer predicting evolution of generic situation parameter over time. The component makes use of open source CEP engine Esper.

  • Student Researcher at TU Berlin
    May 2001 - Apr 2005 · 4 yrs

    implemented a light sensor board for the Nokia M2M platform contributed to CORBA-based Unified Messaging application for ISDN networks contributed ontology for context aware telecommunication services developed a semantic natural language understanding system based on Nuance ASR and TTS