Carolyn Mcdonough
Marketing Writer - AI (Consulting) at Gentoro
Erie, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCarolyn Mcdonough is an experienced technical writer and developer-turned-docs strategist with eight years focused on developer documentation, UX writing, and information architecture across companies like Unity, npm, and Hitachi Rail. She combines hands-on skills in Python, JavaScript, Git, Confluence, Jira, and Docs-as-Code practices with a deep background in enterprise tooling and cloud migration. At Unity she led cross-company ethics and inclusive-language efforts that produced a linter to enforce better UX copy, and at ProbablyMonsters she ran IA experiments using analytics-driven AB studies. Now based in Erie, PA, she’s pivoting into AI and API docs, building Claude-AI experiments and upskilling via local college coursework to bridge tech writing with practical AI tooling. Known for mentoring junior writers and collaborating with legal and engineering teams, she brings a pragmatic, safety-minded approach to adopting AI in documentation.
9 years of coding experience
Transferred due to change in major Creative Writing, Transferred due to change in major Creative Writing at Oberlin CollegeComputer Science, Computer Science at Erie County Community CollegeB.S. Tech Writing (concentration: computers), B.S. Tech Writing (concentration: computers) at Carnegie Mellon University
English
Github Skills (4)
react9
npm9
cli4
gitlab1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ericelliott/docs
Oct 2017 - Oct 2017
learn you some npm for great good
Contributions:6 commits in 8 days
npm
githubschool/conflict-practice-CarolynWriter
Dec 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:1 PR, 4 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
resolveletconflicts
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