Jared Dillard
Senior Documentation Platform Engineer
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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RockstarJared Dillard is a Senior Documentation Platform Engineer with 11 years of experience building documentation systems that serve engineers, writers, and end users. He designs and maintains full-scale doc platforms—leveraging static site generators, Sphinx with custom theming and extensions, and bespoke CI/CD—to support export controls, audits, and multiple output formats. At Joby Aviation he focuses on making technical content clearer and easier to produce while improving UX through styling, light/dark themes, and interactive visualizations using tools like D3.js. Jared also contributes front-end improvements to notable open-source projects such as pfSense, where he has driven UI/UX, CSS refactors, and icon modernization. He blends product-minded design with strong engineering chops, favoring pragmatic tooling and processes that reduce friction for content creators. Outside work his GitHub motto hints at a disciplined approach to code quality and lifecycle thinking.
11 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (12)
css10
user-interface10
ui-design10
interface-design10
font-awesome10
website-design9
jquery-ui9
site-design9
html7
image6
python-sphinx6
restructuredtext6
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
pfsense/pfsense
Jan 2015 - Sep 2020
Main repository for pfSense
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:242 commits, 2 PRs, 34 comments in 5 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Jared primarily focused on UI/UX improvements and styling within the pfSense project. They updated and refactored CSS files, particularly for the jQuery UI, and also converted existing icons to font-awesome icons. They also added features like show/hide functionality and made adjustments to improve the user interface layout.
pfsensefirewallfreebsd
jdillard/continuous-sphinx
Mar 2018 - Dec 2022
An example of continuous integration and deployment of a sphinx project
Contributions:77 commits, 1 PR, 67 pushes in 4 years 9 months
continuous-integrationcontinuous-deploymenttravis-cisphinx
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