Shauna Gordon-mckeon
Founder at Galaxy Rise Consulting
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShauna Gordon-mckeon is the founder of Galaxy Rise Consulting and a 14-year veteran who blends hands-on Python and JavaScript engineering with deep expertise in open source community-building, governance, and training. She helps projects scale contributor pathways, prevent maintainer burnout, and transition governance while also shipping code—ranging from front-end work for advocacy sites to release management for scientific toolkits like HARK. Based in Washington, DC, she has designed high-impact workshops (growing OpenHatch’s campus program and piloting PyCon’s sprinting intro) and delivered trainings for organizations including O’Reilly and PlasmaPy. Her background in neuroscience informs pragmatic data engineering and research-grade ETL work, giving her a rare mix of experimental rigor and product-minded web development. She gravitates toward civic tech, open science, and medical communities that prioritize diversity and inclusion, and is known for clarifying contributor processes and documentation to lower barriers to participation.
14 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
BA, Neuroscience, n/a, BA, Neuroscience, n/a at Hampshire College
Github Skills (14)
html10
git10
release-management10
social-media10
web-development10
integrate10
restructuredtext10
python10
integrations10
meta-tags10
documentation10
sphinx10
economics9
css9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
econ-ark/HARK
Mar 2019 - Jun 2020
Heterogenous Agents Resources & toolKit
Role in this project:
Release Manager & Documentation Specialist
Release Manager & Documentation SpecialistContributions:11 releases, 61 commits, 55 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Shauna primarily focused on preparing and executing releases of the `hark` repository. This involved modifying the `setup.py` file to update the version number, as well as updating the version information in `HARK/__init__.py`. The user also merged branches, and addressed an issue with datafile packaging. In addition, the user updated the documentation and made contributions to the notebooks within the repository.
satagentseconomicsagent-based-modeling
openhatch/oh-mainline
Oct 2013 - Apr 2015
The code that runs openhatch.org
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:37 commits, 4 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Shauna primarily contributed to the project's documentation, making significant updates and restructuring efforts. They improved existing documentation, added new sections like a project overview, and reorganized the documentation's directory structure. The user also added and updated links within the documentation and clarified the contributor process and contact information, enhancing the overall user experience and information accessibility.
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