Catherine Derose
Technical Writer at Software Carpentry Foundation
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolCatherine Derose is a technical writer and educator based in Boston with a decade of experience making complex software and research workflows accessible to diverse audiences. She currently authors cloud and observability documentation and develops an AI assistant for documentation at Ab Initio Software, drawing on deep hands‑on familiarity with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python, XML, and Git. Previously she led communications and user-facing product work at Yale’s Digital Humanities Lab, where she combined content strategy, front-end maintenance, grant management, and training—running dozens of workshops and consulting with hundreds of researchers annually. Her background as a PhD in nineteenth‑century British literature informs a rare mix of rigorous scholarly clarity and practical technical fluency, applied across digital humanities, data visualization, and CMS ecosystems. She regularly teaches introductory programming and data‑wrangling workshops (Software Carpentry) and has repeatedly taught intensive digital humanities courses for the California Rare Book School, demonstrating an ability to translate research methods into reproducible workflows. Colleagues rely on her for clear onboarding, user-centered guides, and pragmatic tooling that bridge scholarly practice and production software.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Nineteenth-Century British Literature, 4.0, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Nineteenth-Century British Literature, 4.0 at University of Wisconsin-MadisonBachelor of Arts (B.A.), English Literature and minor in Classical Studies, 3.97, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), English Literature and minor in Classical Studies, 3.97 at Northwestern University
Github Skills (30)
visualization10
digital-humanities10
data-mining10
machine-learning10
mining10
machine-vision10
text-mining10
nlp10
data-science9
linked-open-data9
viewer9
python9
natural-language-processing9
api9
tsne9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
cderose/dh-courses
Feb 2018 - Jan 2022
Contributions:133 commits, 230 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 11 months
YaleDHLab/dhlab-site
Sep 2017 - Jul 2021
dhlab.yale.edu
Contributions:11 reviews, 641 PRs, 706 pushes in 3 years 11 months
yaleweb-appdata-miningjekylldata-visualization
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