Eric Sirois
DITA Toolsmith at MadCap IXIA CCMS
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Sirois is a DITA-focused toolsmith and software developer with 14+ years delivering XML/DITA publishing and content-management solutions for enterprise customers, currently building custom IXIASOFT DITA CMS integrations and representing IXIASOFT on the OASIS DITA Technical Committee. He combines deep hands-on expertise in DITA, XML, XSLT, DB2 and Eclipse Help with a track record at IBM of reducing release effort and downtime while owning the DITA Open Toolkit Eclipse Help plugin. An active open-source contributor, he has fixed key issues in the widely used DITA Open Toolkit—improving HTML5 output, namespace handling, and URI portability. Bilingual in French and English and named on a patent application for version-insensitive serialization, he excels at cross-functional, geographically distributed collaboration to turn documentation requirements into automated, efficiency-driving tooling.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Science, Bachelor Science at Mount Allison UniversityBachelor Computer Science, Bachelor Computer Science at Technical University of Nova Scotia (TUNS)
French, English
Github Skills (8)
xml10
javas10
dita10
java10
xslt9
debug9
debugging9
ant8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
dita-ot/dita-ot
Jul 2011 - Jun 2021
DITA Open Toolkit — the open-source publishing engine for content authored in the Darwin Information Typing Architecture.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 30 commits, 6 PRs in 10 years
Contributions summary:Eric primarily contributed to the DITA Open Toolkit by fixing bugs and integrating changes from different branches. Their work included addressing a NullPointerException in `IndexWriters`, merging branches, and fixing an issue related to the HTML5 plugin. The user also made changes to use URIs instead of Files within the code and fixed a related issue with namespace declarations.
dita-otditapublishingxmldocumentation-tool
easirois/rocBLAS
Jul 2021 - Aug 2021
Next generation BLAS implementation for ROCm platform
Contributions:11 pushes in 23 days
blasnext-generationrocm
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