Catherine Derose
Technical Writer at Ab Initio Software
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolCatherine Derose is a Boston-based technical writer and educator with a decade of experience turning complex software, data science, and research tools into accessible documentation and training. She currently serves as a Technical Writer at Ab Initio Software (since 2021) and teaches practical programming and data skills as a Software Carpentry Instructor with the Software Carpentry Foundation since 2018. At Yale, she co-managed a $3 million grant and led open-source software initiatives for cultural heritage research, while also building user-focused content and onboarding for diverse campus audiences. Her work spans website maintenance, content strategy, and UX-aligned documentation, with hands-on experience in CSS, HTML, JavaScript, Python, Git, Drupal, WordPress, and data visualization tools like Tableau and ArcGIS. She combines humanities training (PhD in nineteenth-century British literature from UW–Madison; BA in English from Northwestern) with technical communication, enabling researchers and developers to navigate complex tools and workflows. Based in Boston, she brings a unique blend of scholarly rigor and practical pedagogy to content that is both accurate and approachable.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
4.0, 4.0 at University of Wisconsin-MadisonBachelor of Arts (B.A.), English Literature and minor in Classical Studies, 3.97, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), English Literature and minor in Classical Studies, 3.97 at Northwestern University
Github Skills (35)
visualization10
digital-humanities10
data-mining10
machine-learning10
machine-vision10
mining10
text-mining10
nlp10
data-science9
linked-open-data9
viewer9
python9
natural-language-processing9
api9
multi-lingual9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
cderose/dh-courses
Feb 2018 - Jan 2022
Contributions:133 commits, 230 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 11 months
YaleDHLab/dhlab-site
Sep 2017 - Jul 2021
dhlab.yale.edu
Contributions:11 reviews, 641 PRs, 706 pushes in 3 years 11 months
yaleweb-appdata-miningjekylldata-visualization
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