David Maclean
Director at Packt Publishing
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Maclean is a growth-oriented technology and learning industry leader with 30+ years of entrepreneurial and executive experience, currently serving as Director at School of Code while leading and investing across several ventures including Packt Publishing, 10X Managers and Kaido. He specializes in scaling education, publishing and local news models through innovation and public/private collaboration, and has a proven track record convening stakeholders to shape skills policy and regional digital strategy. A hands-on content strategist as well as operator, he has contributed technical writing and learning resources to the prominent git-scm.com site, reflecting a practical commitment to developer education. He pairs commercial leadership with civic engagement—having chaired regional digital boards and co-founded a charity—bringing a rare blend of product, policy and purpose-driven investing to tech-enabled learning.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Solihull SchoolUniversity College London
Github Skills (7)
html10
content-management-system10
content-management10
erb10
documentation9
git8
version-control8
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
git/git-scm.com
Jan 2017 - Jan 2019
The git-scm.com website. Note that this repository is only for the website; issues with git itself should go to https://git-scm.com/community.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer / Content Strategist
Technical Writer / Content StrategistContributions:13 commits, 15 PRs, 10 comments in 2 years
Contributions summary:David's contributions primarily focused on updating and expanding the content of the git-scm.com website. They added and revised sections on books, tutorials, and courses related to Git, specifically within the `ext.html.erb` and `_ext_*.erb` files. The user's work involved integrating links to external resources, ensuring content organization and accuracy across different sections of the site, indicating a focus on presenting and promoting Git-related learning materials.
git-scmscm
packtpartner/guides
Aug 2016 - Mar 2018
Contributions:6 PRs, 8 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 6 months
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