Fred Baube
Freelancing Consulting In Documentation & Communication
Helsinki, Finland
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Top SchoolFred Baube is a freelance consultant specializing in technical documentation, copyediting, and corporate communications for software and finance clients, with nine years of formal consulting experience and decades of hands-on software background. He helps growth-stage and startup technology firms internationalize and professionalize product and marketing materials, designing documentation sets, Word/SharePoint templates, and DITA XML workflows that support ISO-quality processes. Comfortable working with engineers, he blends practical software development experience (Java, Go) with clear, audience-focused writing for end users and highly technical stakeholders. Fred has led documentation modernization projects, implemented metadata-driven SharePoint solutions, and coached junior writers to elevate team output. Based in Helsinki, he pairs multicultural insight and Georgetown international-trade training with a pragmatic, results-oriented approach. As an open-source–friendly technologist, he looks for Go gigs that bridge tech comms and developer tooling.
9 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
MSFS Master of Science, Foreign Service, concentrating in, International Trade & Finance, International Business Diplomacy, MSFS Master of Science, Foreign Service, concentrating in, International Trade & Finance, International Business Diplomacy at Georgetown UniversityBS Mathematics & BS Electrical Engineering, Math, Electrical Engineering, BS Mathematics & BS Electrical Engineering, Math, Electrical Engineering at Clarkson University
suomi, French, English
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Github Skills (150)
cms10
hugo10
table-of-contents10
authentication10
html-editor10
wysiwyg10
commonmark10
backend10
haskell10
markdown10
markup-language10
markup10
quill10
compatibility10
pandoc10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
fbaube/parseutils
Jan 2020 - Jan 2025
parseutils are utilities for parsing HTML5, Markdown, and XML (in the form of [Lw]DITA)
Contributions:36 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 1 month
fbaube/orderednodes
Jan 2021 - Feb 2025
Nodes with ordered children, to use for: XML mixed content, golang os.DirFS, LwDITA maps
Contributions:43 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
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