Charles Huntington
Senior Technical Writer at PayPal
Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex United States
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Top SchoolCharles Huntington is a team-oriented technical publications leader and AI practitioner with 18 years of experience modernizing documentation for enterprise and highly regulated engineering organizations. He has led content strategy and CCMS deployments (Paligo, MadCap) across large post-acquisition and manufacturing environments, aligning content lifecycles with Agile SDLCs and driving structured, reusable topic-based authoring. His background spans cybersecurity, semiconductor maintenance, mission-critical public-safety products, and developer SDKs—translating complex technical and compliance requirements into accessible manuals, runbooks, and training. Charles pairs hands-on tooling expertise (DITA, XML, Flare, FrameMaker, Heretto) with cross-functional change management, having chaired application review committees and trained author teams. An active front-end contributor to Microsoft’s Fluent UI (MessageBar and utilities), he brings practical UI component experience to documentation that supports developer and product teams. Based in the Dallas–Fort Worth area, he combines deep process rigor with a penchant for introducing generative AI and agentic workflows to scale content operations.
17 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, MA Technical Communication, Master's Degree, MA Technical Communication at Boise State UniversityBA, English Literature, BA, English Literature at San Francisco State UniversityMathematics and Computer Science, Mathematics and Computer Science at Diablo Valley CollegeCertificate Program in Agentic AI, Artificial Intelligence, Certificate Program in Agentic AI, Artificial Intelligence at Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering
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Github Skills (16)
typescript10
typescripts10
front-end-development10
react10
typescript-types10
ui-components10
javascript9
react-tsx6
css6
sharepoint-online6
fluentui6
office-addin6
fabricjs6
spfx6
office-ui-fabric6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/fluentui
Feb 2017 - Apr 2021
Fluent UI web represents a collection of utilities, React components, and web components for building web applications.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:35 reviews, 148 commits, 220 PRs in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Charles primarily contributed to the `microsoft/fluentui` repository by implementing and modifying UI components. Their work focused on the `MessageBar` component, adding functionality for dismissing single-line messages and making adjustments to the component's behavior. Additional contributions included updating the `merge-styles` package to accommodate a TypeScript upgrade and making updates to the utilities package.
web-componentsreact-component-libraryreact-componentsmicrosoftui-components
jdhuntington/dieselisation
Mar 2009 - Jan 2012
An 18xx game engine in Rails
Contributions:110 commits in 2 years 10 months
18xxrailsrubygame-developmentmruby
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