Alison Mckay
Senior Technical Writer at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlison Mckay is a Senior Technical Writer at Microsoft with 11 years in tech and a nine-year background as a self-taught front-end developer, blending practical coding experience with clear developer-facing documentation. Based in Seattle, she brings a strong focus on accessibility, sustainability, and inclusive UX from her years building custom WordPress sites and leading front-end teams. Her open-source contributions to DefinitelyTyped show hands-on TypeScript/Office.js expertise, where she’s improved type definitions and aligned error codes with Excel UI behaviors. Comfortable mentoring engineers and clients alike, she pairs project leadership and CMS training experience with a talent for turning complex technical details into usable guidance.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BA International Studies Spanish, BA International Studies Spanish at University of Washington, Henry M. Jackson School of International StudiesPontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
English, Spanish
Github Skills (5)
typescript10
typescripts10
type-definition10
excel10
typescript-types10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
Sep 2020 - Dec 2022
The repository for high quality TypeScript type definitions.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:58 reviews, 48 commits, 69 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Alison's commits primarily focused on updating and improving type definitions within the `definitelytyped/definitelytyped` repository, specifically for the `custom-functions-runtime` and `office-js` packages. They fixed syntax errors, updated error code comments to align with Excel UI, and adjusted type declaration versions. Additionally, the user contributed to updating and correcting the definitions for properties like `useStandardHeight` and `useStandardWidth`, as well as integrating updates from CDN for Office.js and Excel preview features.
typescript-definitionstype-definitionshigh-qualitydtsdefinitions
amckayay/alisonleemckay
Jan 2015 - Jan 2020
Contributions:53 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years
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