Aaron Carlisle
Technical Writer at Billy Casper Golf
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolAaron Carlisle is a technical writer and open-source developer with a decade of experience bridging code and documentation from Baltimore. He currently contributes to Blender’s core node system and helps improve developer and user-facing docs for Sphinx and Read the Docs, blending C++ fixes with front-end styling and templating improvements. Employed by a software-focused non-profit in Amsterdam on a documentation grant, he pairs hands-on engineering (build automation and release fixes for projects like LuminanceHDR) with clear, usable documentation. Comfortable working across back-end, front-end, and build tooling, he brings a practical, multidisciplinary approach that keeps complex graphics and documentation projects shipping.
10 years of coding experience
Anne Arundel Community College
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (29)
debug10
c-language10
restructuredtext10
shader10
css10
sass10
cmake10
font-awesome10
build-automation10
cprogramming-language10
templating10
nodes10
msvcrt10
documentation10
bugtracking10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
readthedocs/sphinx_rtd_theme
Mar 2017 - Aug 2022
Sphinx theme from Read the Docs
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:99 reviews, 516 commits, 320 PRs in 5 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Aaron primarily contributed to the styling and visual presentation of the Sphinx Read the Docs theme. Their commits show they fixed font link issues and implemented visual changes to enhance the theme's appearance. They made modifications to CSS and Sass files, indicating a focus on improving the user interface and visual aspects of the documentation.
pythonsphinx-extensionsphinx-themesphinxsphinx-doc
sphinx-doc/sphinx
Apr 2017 - May 2022
The Sphinx documentation generator
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:5 reviews, 20 commits, 15 PRs in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Aaron's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the Sphinx documentation generator's documentation and templates. They fixed typos, improved wording in documentation, and added features to the templating system, such as blocks to the search page. Furthermore, the user added the functionality of including the 'clean' command in make files help messages, and added WebP mime type to the EPUB builder. Additionally, they exposed the full sphinx version tuple and corrected the sphinx_version string in the code.
pythonsphinx-documentationdocumentation-generatorsphinx-extensiondocumentation-tool
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