Andrew Odewahn
Chief Technology Officer at O'Reilly Media
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Odewahn is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with over 15 years of experience reinventing media as software at O'Reilly Media, where he scaled engineering from 65 to 100+ and conceived next-generation authoring tools like Atlas. He blends product-minded engineering with technical storytelling—his "Docker Jumpstart" topped Hacker News and his graph-visualization work was featured by Ezra Klein in the Washington Post. A published author and co-chair of the inaugural JupyterCon, he drives platform-level UX and content engineering (he designed O'Reilly Learning Platform's highly trafficked topics pages). Based in Cambridge, he also contributes to developer docs and open-source outreach, improving accessibility and onboarding in projects like docker-jumpstart. His background includes an NYU MBA and board service promoting digital scholarship, reflecting a rare mix of business, publishing, and hands-on technical craft.
15 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
MBA Information Systems, MBA Information Systems at New York University
Github Skills (8)
html10
css10
documentation10
bootstrap9
bootstra9
github-pages7
docker4
dockers4
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
odewahn/docker-jumpstart
Aug 2014 - Oct 2015
A quick introduction to Docker
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:127 commits, 17 PRs, 21 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily focused on updating and improving the documentation and layout of the Docker Jumpstart project. They added a table of contents, updated the index page, and added styling through CSS. They also incorporated social media buttons and contributed to the project's contribution guidelines. This demonstrates a focus on enhancing the user experience and making the project more accessible and informative.
docker-composedocker
MakerPress/java_bibliography
Jul 2011 - Oct 2013
Contributions:6 commits in 2 years 4 months
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