Rob Yoder
Manager, Technical Documentation
Quakertown, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRob Yoder is a experienced technical documentation manager with over a decade creating clear, customer-focused content for software and industrial automation systems. He leads documentation teams at Fortna, producing MadCap Flare and Word-based manuals, online training, 3D system illustrations, and multimedia assets while collaborating closely with engineers and trainers. His background spans hands-on technical writing, 3D illustration, photography, HD video production, and even voiceover work, giving him uncommon cross-disciplinary fluency in both content and production. An early career cabinetmaker and published woodworking editor, he brings a craftsperson’s attention to detail and practical design sense to complex technical material. Notably, he has contributed back-end fixes to the well-regarded Stanford Javascript Crypto Library, reflecting comfort with code-level problem solving in addition to documentation leadership.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Music Education, BA, Music Education at Goshen CollegeCertificate, Chinese Language, Certificate, Chinese Language at Nanjing Normal University
English, Chinese, Spanish
Github Skills (5)
algorithm10
algorithms10
javascript10
lib10
cryptography10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
bitwiseshiftleft/sjcl
Aug 2015 - Aug 2018
Stanford Javascript Crypto Library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 5 PRs, 22 comments in 3 years
Contributions summary:Rob primarily contributed to the `core/codecBase32.js` file, demonstrating expertise in base32 encoding and decoding. Their work included fixing bugs related to the alphabet and padding, implementing hexadecimal encoding, and addressing issues with extra zeros. The commits show a deep understanding of the library's internal workings and the RFC standards for base32 encoding.
crypto-librarycryptographystanfordstanford-javascript-cryptojavascript
agilebits/import-sort
Oct 2017 - Feb 2023
Sort ES2015 (aka ES6) imports. Both JavaScript and TypeScript are supported.
Contributions:2 pushes in 5 years 4 months
javascriptsupportedes6importstypescript
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