Aine Riordan
Senior Technical Writer at Squarespace
Ireland
Summary
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Top SchoolAine Riordan is a Senior Technical Writer with seven years of experience translating complex networking and automation technologies into clear, user-focused documentation. She spent the bulk of her career at Red Hat, contributed documentation improvements to the widely used Ansible project (clarifying modules, install procedures, and style guides), and now applies that expertise at Squarespace. Her background spans networking vendors (Brocade, Extreme Networks) and enterprise tooling, with hands-on experience in SLX-OS REST APIs and SDL Tridion content management. Academically grounded in electrical engineering and microelectronics, plus a diploma in computer science and a graduate certificate in technical writing, she combines technical depth with polished communication. Colleagues rely on her knack for spotting and fixing subtle documentation gaps that materially improve usability for operators and developers.
7 years of coding experience
Diploma in computer science Computer Science, Diploma in computer science Computer Science at The Open UniversityUniversity College CorkGraduate Certificate in Technical Writing Technical and Scientific Writing, Graduate Certificate in Technical Writing Technical and Scientific Writing at University of Limerick
Github Skills (4)
ansible-galaxy10
documentation10
ansible10
python4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ansible/ansible
Sep 2021 - Feb 2022
Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:136 reviews, 14 commits, 76 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Aine primarily contributed to the documentation of the Ansible project. Their work involved fixing section header notations, updating cross-reference tag syntax, and correcting text within the style guide. The user also focused on clarifying and improving the documentation related to modules, contributing guidelines, and installation procedures. These documentation edits directly enhance user understanding and usability of the Ansible platform.
everythingpythonit-automationdevopsdeployment
ariordan-redhat/aap-builds
Mar 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:107 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
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