Brian Mackinney
Founder at BasaCasa
Chandler, Arizona, United States
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Top SchoolBrian Mackinney is an instructional designer and founder with 11 years of experience building learning experiences and the tooling that supports them, currently growing BasaCasa to spread Four-Component Instructional Design. He blends instructional design practice with developer-facing skills—having converted Pantheon’s documentation into a Markdown-driven CI/CD site and contributed in-product help and UI improvements—so he speaks both to educators and engineers. His background spans enterprise tech (Microsoft, Cruise) and higher education, where he led program redesigns and built collaborative web apps for curriculum development. Comfortable shipping documentation, training, and job aids, he focuses on designs that transfer to real-world performance rather than just completion. Based in Chandler, AZ, he also brings an unusual mix of coaching (baseball) and product-minded systems thinking to scale learning networks.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
M.Ed., Educational Technology, M.Ed., Educational Technology at Arizona State UniversityB.S., Secondary Education, B.S., Secondary Education at Grand Canyon University
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Github Skills (4)
html10
documentation10
css7
javascript5
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
pantheon-systems/documentation
Nov 2014 - Jul 2016
Pantheon Docs
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:698 commits, 212 PRs, 282 pushes in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Brian primarily contributed to the documentation repository, making changes to various HTML files. Their work focused on improving the structure and content of the documentation, as evidenced by the creation of a child guides file, the removal of title casing from titles, and the addition of a description to category index pages. Other changes involved moving elements and search functionality around the layout, along with the overall cleanup of the content, indicating a focus on content organization and presentation.
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bmackinney/hugoDocs
Aug 2019 - Oct 2024
The source for https://gohugo.io/
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 2 months
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