Toby Hodges
Director of Engineering at The Carpentries: carpentries
Leimen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Summary
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RockstarToby Hodges is a Director of Engineering with 11 years of experience based in Leimen, Germany, blending technical leadership with curriculum development for The Carpentries. He leads engineering teams while actively shaping learning materials and workshop infrastructure, serving as Director of Curriculum and contributing hands-on to high-profile Carpentries repositories like the workshop template and Software Carpentry website. Toby’s work focuses on standardizing lesson content, improving documentation, and streamlining setup instructions—skills that make him equally comfortable in technical writing and engineering strategy. Colleagues rely on him to translate pedagogical needs into robust, reproducible workshop tooling that scales across instructor communities. He brings a detail-oriented mindset to both code and content, with a knack for organizing knowledge so that technical training is accessible and repeatable.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (10)
content-management-system10
modification10
maintenance10
templater10
template-engine10
content-management10
documentation10
markdown-it9
markdown9
github8
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
carpentries/workshop-template
Mar 2019 - Jan 2023
The Carpentries Workshop Template
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:25 reviews, 43 commits, 37 PRs in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Toby's primary contribution centers around updating and modifying the workshop template's documentation. Their commits focus on standardizing the lesson content, including title casing for lessons and episodes in schedule and syllabus files. The user also added specific content related to DC image setup instructions and linking to the setup instructions.
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swcarpentry/website
Oct 2019 - Jul 2022
Software Carpentry website
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:5 reviews, 8 commits, 10 PRs in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Toby's contributions primarily involve tagging and organizing content related to past blog posts and updating the website's help documentation. They added tags to posts from various years. The commits include changes to the pages/index.html and pages/lessons_dashboard.html files, updating links and improving content.
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