Aidan Reilly
Cork, Munster, Ireland
Summary
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Top SchoolAidan Reilly is a technical writer and DevOps-focused automation engineer based in Cork, Ireland, with a five-year track record of turning complex software into clear, usable documentation. He blends humanities-trained communication skills (MA and BA in English) with technical credentials in cloud computing and electronic engineering to bridge developer and ops teams. Aidan has contributed to high-profile OpenShift projects—improving CI/CD, Netlify preview deployments, and documentation UX—demonstrating practical impact on release tooling and docs for a major open-source platform. His background in technical communication and hands-on build automation means he both writes the docs and helps automate their delivery. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic fixes that improve mobile rendering, navigation, and deployment pipelines rather than abstract recommendations. He also writes about Red Hat AI on GitHub, signaling a growing focus on AI-related documentation and tooling.
5 years of coding experience
Higher Certificate in Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Merit grade 1, GPA: 3.11, Higher Certificate in Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Merit grade 1, GPA: 3.11 at Institute of Technology, TallaghtBachelor of Arts, English, History, 1st class hons., Grade 2, Bachelor of Arts, English, History, 1st class hons., Grade 2 at University College CorkHigher Diploma in Science in Cloud Computing, Computer Science, 2:1 Honours, Higher Diploma in Science in Cloud Computing, Computer Science, 2:1 Honours at Cork Institute of TechnologyGrad. Dip., Technical Communication, 1st class hons., grade 1, QCA: 3.33, Grad. Dip., Technical Communication, 1st class hons., grade 1, QCA: 3.33 at University of Limerick
Github Skills (16)
css10
kubernetes10
automation10
bash10
automations10
openshift10
build-automation10
documentation10
kubernetes-pods10
dockers9
netlify9
githubaction-workflow9
github-ci9
asciidoc9
docker9
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
openshift/openshift-docs
Dec 2020 - Dec 2022
OpenShift 3 and 4 product and community documentation
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:1242 reviews, 349 commits, 1721 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Aidan primarily contributed to the documentation of the OpenShift platform. Their commits focused on updating various aspects of the documentation, including fixing sidebar navigation, correcting footer overlaps, and fixing CSS issues related to mobile rendering. They also addressed aspects like adding new distro updates and fixing print-related CSS. These changes suggest a focus on improving the user experience and correcting platform information.
commonskubernetesopenshift
openshift/release
Oct 2023 - Mar 2025
Release tooling for OpenShift
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:34 reviews, 75 PRs, 503 comments in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Aidan primarily focused on enhancing the CI/CD pipeline and build processes for the OpenShift documentation project. Their contributions involved modifying build configurations, integrating Netlify for preview deployments, and automating the deployment of documentation. They also added various CI/CD steps and configurations, including those for linting and JIRA link verification, improving the overall automation of the documentation build and deployment workflow.
continuous-deploymentkubernetesopenshifttooling
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