Maggie Hays
Research Administrator
Evanston, Illinois, United States
Summary
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RockstarMaggie Hays is a research administrator with a decade of experience managing sponsored research and financial services at Northwestern University, currently supporting the Department of Chemistry in Weinberg College. She combines rigorous proposal and post-award administration—reviewing budgets, facilities and effort commitments for dozens of departments—with strategic advising to senior leadership on research best practices. Maggie’s background includes building collaborative support systems for large teams and improving operational processes across life sciences units. Outside academia she has communications and editorial experience, bringing strong writing, stakeholder engagement, and documentation skills to technical contexts. Her GitHub contributions to the widely used DataHub project show an eye for clear technical documentation and user-focused content organization, including guides and visual polish. Based in Evanston, she blends analytical program management with a knack for translating technical work into accessible guidance.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (8)
markdown10
markdown-it10
documentation10
datahub9
discovery9
data-catalog9
metadata9
docusaurus8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
datahub-project/datahub
Oct 2021 - Jan 2023
The Metadata Platform for your Data and AI Stack
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:7 releases, 105 reviews, 58 commits in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Maggie's contributions primarily involved documentation updates within the `datahub-project/datahub` repository. They added and modified documentation, including guides, feature explanations, and quickstart guides. The user focused on updating the documentation site with new content and revisions, particularly related to ingestion sources, UI components, and deployment guides. They also added logos for several adopter companies, enhancing the documentation's visual appeal and content organization.
data-managementdata-discoverydata-stackmodern-data-stackdata-catalog
maggiehays/workout_slackbot
Feb 2016 - Jun 2019
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 4 months
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