Maëlle Salmon
Software Engineer at ropensci
Nancy, Grand Est, France
Summary
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RockstarMaëlle Salmon is a Reseach Software Engineer based in Nancy, France with 13 years of experience building polished developer-facing tools and documentation. She blends front-end craftsmanship—improving UI, CSS, and JavaScript in well-known projects like bookdown—with technical writing and docs work for pkgdown to make complex R ecosystems more accessible. Her contributions show a user-centric approach, adding search, copy buttons and social metadata to improve discoverability and usability of technical books and package sites. A blogger as well as a coder, she focuses on presentation and developer experience as much as on functionality, quietly elevating how R projects are consumed and shared.
13 years of coding experience
Github Skills (12)
css10
markdown10
javascript10
markdown-it10
bookdown10
documentation10
webconfig9
configuration-file9
html9
rmarkdown9
configurations9
r8
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
r-lib/pkgdown
Jun 2018 - Jan 2023
Generate static html documentation for an R package
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:443 reviews, 383 commits, 302 PRs in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Maëlle primarily contributed to documentation improvements and website structure for the `pkgdown` R package. Their commits focused on fixing documentation, correcting typos, adding examples, and providing configuration documentation. These changes enhanced the usability and clarity of the documentation for the package's users, including updating the documentation site and improving its structure.
rr-packagestatic-htmldocumentation-tool
rstudio/bookdown
Nov 2020 - Jul 2021
Authoring Books and Technical Documents with R Markdown
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:27 reviews, 12 commits, 15 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Maëlle primarily contributed to the user interface and styling aspects of the `bookdown` repository, specifically within the `bs4_book` template. They modified CSS files to adjust font sizes and spacing, and they added and integrated Javascript libraries for improved functionality, such as search and copy buttons. The user also worked on metadata implementation to integrate social sharing features, demonstrating a focus on enhancing the user experience and presentation of the book format.
rmarkdownbookdowngitbooklatexepub
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