Erin Becker
Associate Director
Pleasant Hill, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolErin Becker is Associate Director at The Carpentries with nine years of experience creating community-driven, accessible computational training materials. Trained as a microbiologist and former UC Davis PhD student and TA, she combines domain science, pedagogy, and technical writing to expand open-source workshop curricula—contributing notable updates to the widely used Carpentries workshop-template and Software Carpentry website. An active learning advocate and linguistics enthusiast, she prioritizes instructor training, accessibility fixes, and clear setup instructions that lower barriers for learners. Based in Pleasant Hill, CA, Erin is a visible LGBTQ+ community member and occasional art dilettante, bringing inclusive, people-focused leadership to educational technology.
9 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Microbiology, General, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Microbiology, General at University of California, DavisIGETC, IGETC at Cuesta College
Github Skills (20)
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Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
swcarpentry/website
May 2016 - Jul 2022
Software Carpentry website
Role in this project:
Technical Writer / Community Contributor
Technical Writer / Community ContributorContributions:116 commits, 83 PRs, 83 pushes in 6 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Erin primarily contributed to updating the Software Carpentry website by adding and modifying content related to instructor training and maintainers. Their work included updating bios, adding new instructor trainers, modifying links, and adding/removing maintainers for various lessons. They also updated the Code of Conduct and added new members to the team, indicating a focus on website maintenance and community management.
liquidcarpentryjekyllsoftware-carpentry
carpentries/workshop-template
Apr 2018 - Nov 2021
The Carpentries Workshop Template
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:15 commits, 19 PRs, 12 pushes in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Erin primarily contributed to the project by adding and modifying workshop content and setup instructions. They incorporated a new astronomy curriculum, updated existing schedules with specific lessons, and added necessary pre-requisite information, thereby enhancing and expanding the scope of workshop materials. The changes included fixing broken links, updating curriculum-specific details, and addressing accessibility concerns within the template files.
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