Aimee Ukasick
Senior Technical Writer at IBM
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAimee Ukasick is a senior technical writer with nine years of focused experience crafting developer-first documentation for cloud-native and CI/CD products, now authoring Nomad and Consul content at IBM after HashiCorp acquisition. She combines hands-on software development background with docs-as-code practices (Hugo/Docsy, Docusaurus, GitHub Actions) to turn chaotic source repos into SEO-optimized, user-centered documentation that measurably improves onboarding and support outcomes. A long-time open source advocate and contributor, she’s shaped documentation and community processes for projects like Kubernetes SIG Docs and the popular Docsy theme, and co-led Spinnaker’s Docs SIG. Known for cross-cultural communication and leading distributed teams, she pairs strategic content vision with technical chops—having written scripts, built search integrations, and reviewed code PRs to ensure UX and developer success.
9 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA History (Modern China and Indochina); Minor in Comparative Literature, Bachelor of Arts - BA History (Modern China and Indochina); Minor in Comparative Literature at University of Wisconsin-MilwaukeeNanodegree Full Stack Web Developer, Nanodegree Full Stack Web Developer at UdacityAssociate of Applied Science - AAS Commercial Photography, Associate of Applied Science - AAS Commercial Photography at Milwaukee Area Technical College
English
Github Skills (8)
ui-theme10
hugo10
wordpress-themes10
code-documentation10
documentation10
web-content9
content-model9
seo8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
google/docsy
Nov 2020 - Aug 2021
Hugo theme for open source documentation
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:5 reviews, 8 commits, 6 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Aimee primarily focused on improving the Hugo theme's documentation and user experience. Their commits address issues related to content organization, including adding descriptions, hiding summaries, and excluding pages from lists. They also updated shortcodes and corrected formatting to improve readability. Additionally, the user fixed a meta description tag issue to improve SEO.
documentation-websitedocsyhugodocumentation-sitehugo-theme
aimeeu/cardiganpeke
Dec 2023 - Jan 2025
Personal site for writing samples and a bit about me.
Contributions:39 PRs, 49 pushes, 21 branches in 1 year
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