Andrew Butters
Owner And Information Design Consultant
Greater Ipswich Area United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAndrew Butters is an experienced information design consultant and technical writer with nearly two decades of practice specialising in API and SDK documentation, user guides, release notes and online help. As owner of Elucidox Ltd he combines hands‑on documentation work with practical web design and DevOps skills—building Django and Docker-backed sites and administering Nginx/Tomcat developer portals. His background includes senior technical writing roles at Trimble and Business Objects where he created developer portals, automated release-note tooling with Python, and integrated Doxygen XML into cohesive reference documentation. Comfortable with both code and content, he has produced documentation for C#, Java, COM and web APIs and mentored teams on style and process. Based in the Greater Ipswich area, he brings a pragmatic blend of engineering rigour and clear communication, often surfacing implementation details that make APIs easier for developers to adopt.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Postgraduate Diploma, Technical Communication, Postgraduate Diploma, Technical Communication at Sheffield Hallam UniversityBEng (Hons), Product Design and Manufacture, BEng (Hons), Product Design and Manufacture at Brunel University of London
Github Skills (3)
tech-docs5
distribute4
ruby3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
hmrc/customs-declarations-end-to-end-service-guide
Jan 2023 - Apr 2025
Contributions:28 reviews, 50 PRs, 28 pushes in 2 years 2 months
abutters/FreeCAD
Jan 2018 - Jan 2018
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 day
modelerparametricopenglfreecadmultiplatform
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