Robert Anderson
Principal Member Of Technical Staff at Oracle
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Anderson is a Principal Member of Technical Staff based in Austin with over two decades of experience building and architecting XML-based publishing systems, now focused on cloud-based publishing on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. He is a long-time leader of the DITA Open Toolkit open-source project and has co-edited three major versions of the OASIS DITA specification, currently contributing to version 2.0. His hands-on work spans XML, XSLT/XSL-FO, Java, localization, and web accessibility, with deep expertise in transforming content into HTML and PDF at scale. Robert combines standards stewardship with pragmatic open-source engineering—frequently fixing core stylesheet and build issues in dita-ot—so he understands both specification design and implementation trade-offs. He’s equally curious about human languages and programming languages, and unexpectedly applies his own tooling as a late-night technical writer.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Russian, Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Russian, Computer Science at Carleton College
English, Russian, Swedish
Github Skills (8)
xml10
publish10
dita10
xslt10
documentation10
ant9
javas6
java6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
dita-ot/dita-ot
Mar 2020 - Dec 2022
DITA Open Toolkit — the open-source publishing engine for content authored in the Darwin Information Typing Architecture.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:18 releases, 140 reviews, 50 commits in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Robert primarily contributed to the DITA Open Toolkit by modifying XSL stylesheets and Java code, indicating a focus on the transformation and publishing engine's core functionality. They implemented new class functions, updated existing XSL templates to recognize alternate class values, and addressed issues related to missing content and build errors. The changes involved modifications across multiple files including map processing, HTML generation, and PDF generation, suggesting a deep understanding of the toolkit's internal workings.
ditadita-otdocumentation-toolxmlpublishing
robander/dita
Dec 2016 - Jun 2026
OASIS DITA TC: Official repository for the source files for the written DITA specification
Contributions:193 pushes, 496 branches in 9 years 7 months
oasisditaspecificationsource-files
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