PM at Mozilla, based in Berlin.
I’m a Product Manager at Mozilla working on Firefox Enterprise. I joined Mozilla in 2022 as a staff technical writer on MDN Web Docs and moved into product management in 2025. I wrote about what we built in Firefox Enterprise is here.
My background
I started building on the web as a teenager, and being self-taught meant that I learned how to solve problems in unfamiliar domains.
Before Mozilla, I was at QuestDB, an open-source time-series database, from seed through a $15M Series A. I was Head of Content on paper, but in practice, I worked on ops, UI/UX, growth, and marketing.
Outside of work, I love discovering more of Europe, good coffee spots, and using music gear as long as it doesn’t have a screen.
Contact me
- @bsmth.de on Bluesky
- linkedin.com/bsmth
- email:
contact@bsmth.de
Experience
Mozilla: Staff Product Manager, Firefox Enterprise
Aug 2025 - Present Berlin, Germany
Firefox Enterprise has two parts: a Firefox browser with additional security features for managed environments, and an Admin Console that organizations run on their own infrastructure to manage policies, access, and how data moves through the browser. I work across both, from company sign-in and data loss prevention in the browser to policy management in the console, with a focus on what IT and security teams need to deploy and run Firefox at scale.
Mozilla: Staff Technical Writer, MDN Web Docs
Aug 2022 - Aug 2025 Berlin, Germany
Worked on MDN Web Docs, Mozilla’s documentation platform for web developers, and landed over 1,000 pull requests across the MDN GitHub organization, mostly in content, the MDN Blog, and browser compat data (BCD). Owned the HTTP section, modernizing examples and standardizing formatting, with positive reader feedback rising over that time. Documented each Firefox release for developers, kept browser compatibility data current, and audited docs for Interop 2023. Wrote and edited for the MDN Blog from its launch in 2023. Maintained CI and shared GitHub workflows, ran content migrations, moved diagrams to SVG and Mermaid in a shared assets repo, and worked with contributors and the communities who translate MDN.
QuestDB: Head of Content
Dec 2020 - Aug 2022 Berlin, Germany
Head of Content on paper; in practice, worked across ops, UI/UX, growth, legal, and marketing from seed through Series A.
eMnify: Technical Writer
Sep 2018 - Dec 2020 Berlin, Germany
Owned REST API documentation using the OpenAPI specification. Built demo applications on AWS, produced user guides and tutorials with Asciidoctor, and delivered webinars and product training.
enfore: Technical Writer
Feb 2016 - Jul 2018 Berlin, Germany
Maintained the language specification for N4JS, a TypeScript-like language. Owned internal architecture documentation and user-facing guides, using a docs-as-code workflow deployed to S3 with custom Docker tooling.
Lionbridge: Google Android Auto UX Tester
Oct 2015 - Feb 2016 Berlin, Germany
Evaluated Android Auto using Nielsen usability heuristics, recorded test sessions, and filed detailed, reproducible usability issues.
Web Developer
Jan 2009 - Nov 2015 Berlin, Germany
Built and deployed sites for small businesses: e-commerce, SEO, infrastructure, and the stack of problems that come with being the only technical person in the room.