Marc S Galli

From a technical writer to a writer

Marc S Galli

  • Projects supported: WePlex, Tela Social, HackerNoon, Zvents (Silicon Valley), Mozilla, Yahoo!, Netscape/AOL.

Writing, in English, is a passion of mine because it is central to the computer revolution. I can say that through Silicon Valley I was able to, slowly, approach writing. Yes, it started with technical writing. But writing took me to learn about management, and eventually unfold an interest in learning about writing. Technical writing, and non-fiction writing, have been a way for me to collaborate with in the development of many products and projects.

Writing as a founder

For MePlex, a marketing solution for psychologists, I help building the service's value proposition and customer relationship interactions. My work activities involves user experience design, user interface development, marketing and communiations, and product development.

Writing as a designer

Writing as a writer

For Hackernoon, I had the opportunity to write beyond technical writing. Having valued Hackernoon as a publication intended to support the grown path of writers, I have invested in writing (expanding my perspectives towards psychology) which went along with studies in entrepreneurship and management. As a result, I was nominated by their editors a few times and became a Hackernoon verified contributor in 2023.

Through annotations of the Blitzscaling lectures since 2017, I caught myself writing for founders (first for myself). This work went along with the struggle to develop myself as a writer. As a result of this process, I arrived a pre-manuscript for a book for founders, a 4-months written manuscript for food establishments, and a draft material to support non-writers to become writers.

Writing as a business developer

Tela Social, was an internal communication solution to present information on display appliances and using data-sources from the web. Through this project, I have authored technical articles, and white papers which went along with the busines development of Tela Social. See galleries: TelaSocial at FISL Conference in 2013, TelaSocial at FPI science park in 2013

  • 2013 @ Mozilla Hacks Technical article Demo paper - Galli, M. & Nyman, R. (2013, April 3). A Social-Aware Dashboard Experience with Gecko in Walls. Mozilla Hacks.

  • 2013 W3C Conference, WWW'13 Companion Research, white paper Demo paper - Galli, M. dos S., & Beletato Santos, E. P. (2013). TagVisor: Extending web pages with interaction events to support presentation in digital signage. In Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on World Wide Web (WWW'13 Companion). W3C Conference. See Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on World Wide Web. Read more.

  • 2011 W3C Conference, Demo chapter Galli, M. dos S., & Gomes, F. (2011). A Web Standards-Based Model for Interactive Content Presentation in Social Spaces. In Proceedings of the 3rd W3C Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This work was selected for at the 3rd W3C Conference in 2011, Rio de Janeiro, brasil (archive, archived image). Read more.

  • 2010 Drumbeat Community event Presentation - Supported communications to engage the developer's community to join an collaboration event by Mozilla (Drumbeat São Carlos).

  • 2009 FISL Conference Presentation Demo paper - Demo and presentation on Social-Aware Media Player for Display Panels presented a demonstration of an innovative visual player technology based on Mozilla technologies (specially XulRunner).

Writing as web evangelist

My professional career started after I became a technology evangelist in Silicon Valley. Such involvement went along with the evolution of the developer role along with the development of the web. These good old days at Netscape Communications took me into the open-source world through the Mozilla project inside Netscape Browser Division, building 21. My role was was initially focusing on creating demonstrations and technical articles to help developers to learn how to use the W3C technologies which weere integrated into the web browser. It was a work under the marketing efforts, although quite technical and mission-oriented. This involvement took me to become of the editors for the well-known (New) DevEdge Publication, one of the early contributors of the Mozilla.org documentation site. Later, as Mozilla I rejoined Mozilla throught the early days of Firefox, working for their Labs division.

Writing presentations

The following repositoty lists many of the talks I gave in Brazil and across the world. I continue to work on presentations because I value what we take from presenting, more than the output which is required as part of the collaborative act of presenting.

Get in touch

You can reach me out via email mgalli at mgalli dot com.