Daniel So
Markham, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel So is a Staff Technical Writer with two decades of experience translating complex hardware and software engineering into precise, usable documentation for enterprises like AMD and Oracle. He has led large documentation migrations to DITA-based CCMS, built CI/CD pipelines for publishing, and authored developer-facing API and cloud service guides—bridging engineering, QA, and support. His background spans chipset databooks and GPU computing stacks (ROCm), and he combines deep XML/toolchain expertise (DocBook, XSLT, XPL) with hands-on scripting in Java, Python, Perl, and shell. Notably, his engineering-science and physics training plus a professional technical-writing certificate underpin a rare mix of rigorous technical understanding and structured content strategy. Based in Markham, Ontario, he excels at reducing maintenance overhead through single-sourcing and automation while keeping documentation aligned to product release cadences.
10 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Philosophy, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Philosophy at McMaster UniversityCertificate, Professional Technical Writing, Certificate, Professional Technical Writing at Carleton UniversityMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Physics, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Physics at University of TorontoMaster of Arts (M.A.), Philosophy, Master of Arts (M.A.), Philosophy at University of Guelph
chinese (cantonese and mandarin)
Github Skills (7)
mysql-connector10
mysql10
java10
xslt2
stylesheets2
xml2
docbook1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (2)
mysql/mysql-connector-j
Sep 2015 - Jul 2020
MySQL Connector/J
Contributions:8 commits in 4 years 11 months
mysql-connectorjavaconnectormysql
docbook/xslt10-stylesheets
Mar 2018 - Mar 2018
XSLT 1.0 Stylesheets for DocBook
Contributions:1 issue in 1 day
docbookxmlstylesheetssnapshotxslt
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