Manuel Kaufmann
Backend Developer at Read the Docs
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Top SchoolManuel Kaufmann is a seasoned backend developer with 19 years of experience, currently building infrastructure at Read the Docs from Barcelona. He specializes in Python-backed web systems, Django, Sphinx documentation tooling, and improving developer-facing UX—evidenced by contributions to the widely used readthedocs/sphinx_rtd_theme and the Spanish Python docs translation. His career blends backend engineering, full-stack GTK work for OLPC, and sysadmin foundations, giving him a pragmatic view of reliability, deployment and localization. Manuel has a track record of shipping practical tooling: plugins and scripts that streamline documentation builds, translation workflows and static site generators. He also teaches and mentors—having been a Python instructor—and brings an uncommon mix of documentation-first thinking to backend design.
19 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Profesorado en Inglés, Inglés, Profesorado en Inglés, Inglés at UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE ENTRE RÍOSIngeniería en Sistemas de Información, Ingeniería en Sistemas de Información at Universidad Tecnológica Nacional
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (24)
restructuredtext10
sphinx-doc10
python10
translation10
gdk10
sphinx10
static-site-generator10
plugin-development10
jinjava10
gtk10
front-end-development10
static-site10
documentation10
testing9
javascript9
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
python/python-docs-es
May 2020 - Dec 2022
Spanish translation of the Python documentation.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:23 reviews, 476 commits, 228 PRs in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Manuel primarily contributed to the Spanish translation of the Python documentation. Their work focused on configuring the Sphinx build process, making it compatible with Read the Docs, and integrating the translation workflow with the repository. They added a progress page and a "contributing" guide, as well as fixed a few of the warnings. The user also created a script to help with the translation.
pythontranslation
readthedocs/sphinx_rtd_theme
Jul 2019 - Apr 2021
Sphinx theme from Read the Docs
Role in this project:Technical Writer & Frontend Developer
Technical Writer & Frontend DeveloperContributions:60 reviews, 8 commits, 80 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Manuel primarily contributed to the documentation and frontend aspects of the Sphinx theme. They addressed the removal of specific messages, potentially related to hosting providers, and updated the theme's documentation to reflect the latest changes. Furthermore, they focused on enhancing the UI by integrating the new addons flyout from the Read the Docs platform and refining the version/language selectors. Their contributions also included styling improvements and JavaScript updates to improve the user experience.
read-the-docssphinx-docsphinx-theme
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