From Startup to Production: Integrating Technical Writing into Product Development

  • Fachvortrag
  • Level up your technical communication
  • 24. September
  • 11:10 - 11:50 AM (CEST)
  • Zsolt Ambrus

    • aiMotive
  • Orsolya Szondi

    • aiMotive Kft.

Contents

This talk shares the story of how a small technical writing team grew alongside a former R&D startup that’s now a product-focused automotive software company. What started as ad-hoc internal PDFs has evolved into a structured, collaborative documentation process built into the product lifecycle. Today, we support a cross-functional team of over 50 people and manage both core and customer-specific content. We will talk about how we formalized our processes, became part of development workflows, and introduced “definition of done” reviews to help plan documentation more effectively. We'll also show how our release notes and product catalogs have grown into user-facing materials that bridge the gap between technical communication and marketing.

Takeaways

Clear processes, key individuals, and the right tools are essential for scaling documentation from internal support to user-facing content.

Prior knowledge

No prior knowledge is required.

Speakers

Zsolt Ambrus

  • aiMotive
Biography

Senior Technical Writer living in Budapest, Hungary with 15 years of experience in automotive software development. Has a strong background in automotive software testing and localization. Experienced in writing and reviewing software requirements. Certified in Requirements Engineering and UX writing. Greenpeace activist and environmental advocate.

Orsolya Szondi

  • aiMotive Kft.
Biography

I'm Orsi, currently working as a technical writer at an automotive software company based in Budapest, Hungary. I always had a knack for reading, and logically constructing my ideas into a written format in different languages. Thus, naturally, I studied English Language and Literature along Politics and Philosophy as my university BA with a specialization in English Linguistics. Then I continued studying Linguistics in my MA program, including Computational Linguistics, which introduced me to programming, a concept I never even thought about before that...   

I worked at the university too, contributed to different projects, but my first real office-job was at an automotive startup company. I had many roles there, including marketing, managing, and technical writing roles. This was my first real job, and it started my ongoing career as a writer in the automotive industry.