Alison Hodges
Senior Compliance Analyst at Erlea Professionals
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlison Hodges is a Senior Compliance Analyst and seasoned technical writer with 11 years of experience helping teams turn complex software into usable, reliable products. As founder of Erlea Professionals and former Principal Technical Writer at edX, she blends information architecture, doc project management, and hands-on usability testing to act as an early product user and advocate. Her background spans startups and enterprise clients—including IBM, Tamr, HubSpot, and Vistaprint—where she’s delivered documentation that supports adoption, compliance, and customer success. Alison’s approach pairs meticulous attention to usability with exploratory testing, so documentation often doubles as a source of product insight and quality feedback. Based in Cambridge, MA, she is known for quiet technical leadership and a knack for turning user-facing content into a strategic asset. An anecdotal bit: her GitHub persona earned the playful nickname “Captain Nit” while contributing to Open edX docs, reflecting her eye for detail.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BA English, BA English at University of RochesterHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Shenendehowa
Github Skills (47)
couchbase10
lms10
edx10
couchbase-lite9
antora9
swift8
dashboard8
asciidoc8
architecture8
api-client7
odk7
couchdb7
ios7
java7
analytics7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
openedx-unsupported/edx-documentation
Jan 2015 - Nov 2016
[DEPRECATED] documentation for Open edX; please see docs.openedx.org
Contributions:929 PRs, 2619 pushes, 1005 branches in 1 year 10 months
lamagnifica/edx-documentation
Nov 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:1 push, 2 branches in 1 day
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