Cameron Mcefee
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCameron Mcefee is a creative-technical leader in San Francisco with 10 years' experience building interdisciplinary creative teams and shipping design-driven products. He’s led creative organizations at GitHub and Sentry, doing hands-on work from crafting GitHub’s Octocats and documentation sites to implementing a React/Algolia global search for Sentry docs. As Creative Director he built agency-style teams, hired talent from outside tech to avoid industry creative biases, and established predictable intake and production workflows. He spans art, design, code, video, product and physical goods—finding unconventional solutions (even training a 3D culinary printer to print a ketchup logo) to solve brief challenges. Founder of GuideGuide, a SaaS grid plugin for popular design tools, he’s an empathetic leader who refuses “it can’t be done” and keeps creative teams productive and distinctive.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
AA, New Media, AA, New Media at Academy of Art University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (20)
markdown10
javascript10
algolia10
technical-writing10
markdown-it10
front-end-development10
react10
documentation10
css9
html9
jekyll6
yaml-frontmatter6
bootstrap6
typescripts5
typescript-types5
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
getsentry/sentry-docs
May 2016 - Aug 2021
Sentry's documentation (and tools to build it)
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:3 reviews, 434 commits, 328 PRs in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Cameron primarily contributed to the documentation of the `getsentry/sentry-docs` repository. Their commits focused on clarifying existing documentation, removing subjective language, correcting typos, adding links to relevant resources like Jira plugins, and ensuring consistency in terminology. These edits demonstrate a focus on improving the clarity, accuracy, and usability of the documentation for the Sentry platform.
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getsentry/develop
Sep 2020 - May 2021
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 17 commits, 19 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Cameron primarily contributed to the implementation of a global search feature within the Sentry develop documentation. Their work involved creating a React-based search component, integrating with the `sentry-global-search` library, and handling search results display. The contributions include the initial setup of the search functionality, integration of Algolia, and subsequent enhancements such as partial updates and improved handling of zero-hit results.
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