What People Say

I had an honor of working with Maria for 3 years. Her commitment and motivation to excel at everything she does are incredible, and combined with her intelligence and a very friendly personality, that makes her an absolute asset. She is extremely knowledgeable in her field and constantly expanding her expertise. Not only is she a brilliant researcher, but also a talented lecturer and teacher; she was always very good at finding new creative ways of delivering material to students, organizing her lectures, and approaching problems overall. Her work habits are outstanding. She is self-motivated, highly organized and responsible. Her communication skills, both verbal and written, are excellent. It was a true honor and pleasure to work with her, and I cannot recommend her enough.

Maria is an experienced technical writer with a track record of producing high quality technical documentation. Our documentation system is rather complex, involves several types of deliverables, and demands high flexibility, commitment, and stamina on the part of the technical writer, with substantial workloads coming during major releases. And Maria copes just fine! I like her versatility and especially value her contribution with writing our API documentation and the in-app copy, such as error messages. Among her strengths I would mention the use of a VCS and docs-as-code workflows. In general, this writer has a passion for communicating highly complex technical concepts clearly and concisely. I hope that she continues working for us and wish her much success as a freelance writer.

Maria is a tenacious and creative writer, who can improve your documentation in the wink of an eye. She immediately finds technobabble and replaces it with clear, concise sentences that readers can understand and appreciate. Unnecessary clusters of nouns, passive voice, nominalizations and other instances of bad technical writing simply do not have a chance. With Maria, your docs are simply in good hands.

I have worked with Maria on a number of documentation projects in our software for modeling integrated photonics and optical design automation. She is excellent in proofreading English in technical documentation such as User Manuals, Reference Manuals, and Application Examples. Importantly, she could process in source very different types of our documentation: Adobe FrameMaker, LaTeX, XML, Jupyter Notebooks (Markdown), RST. Our projects deal with complex technical content (mathematics and physics) that contains equations, mutual cross-references, and specific terminology in several different physics directions - and Maria always handled these difficult tasks successfully and professionally. I can highly recommend her as a Technical Writer. She is a valuable asset to our team!

I know Maria Sivenkova as a successful academic writer and author of several university-level courses and textbooks on linguistic pragmatics, organisational communication, and ESP. She conducted several university courses, supervised graduate and postgraduate research projects, and wrote several influential articles and book chapters on linguistic pragmatics. I am also impressed by her skills as a videographer, completing challenging projects from conception to fruition in no time. I like her commitment and absolute reliability and wish her huge success as a freelance writer and videographer.

It was a great pleasure to work with Maria. Her expert knowledge in writing technical documentation allowed us to deliver high quality user manuals to the client. She was able to play many roles at the same time being a translator, technical writer and a lead of the team responsible for creating user manuals. I remembered Maria as a very energetic person with great personality. She has managed to build strong relationships with the customers and with the team members. Everyone enjoyed working with Maria.