Trevor Rothaus
CEO at Claritas Studios
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTrevor Rothaus is a CEO and former software engineer with 14 years of experience building full-stack systems, documentation, and digital media projects from California. He began his career contributing to SendGrid’s mail pipeline and docs—working across Perl, Python, Go, and DevOps tooling—and has taught programming and computation theory at Tufts, reflecting a strong foundation in functional languages and pedagogy. As founder of Claritas Studios he blends engineering rigor with creative production, shipping animated films, books, and interactive media. He has a track record of improving developer experience through precise documentation edits on high-profile repos like SendGrid’s docs, and he brings practical experience with CI/CD, databases, and performance-focused tooling. Known for pairing technical depth with narrative-driven products, Trevor bridges software architecture and storytelling to produce polished, user-focused outcomes.
14 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Servite High SchoolBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science at Tufts University
Github Skills (9)
markdown10
api-documentation10
markdown-it10
documentation10
sendgrid-mail9
sendgrid9
uia8
gatsby6
react5
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
sendgrid/docs
Nov 2014 - Feb 2015
Repository of Twilio SendGrid's product documentation.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:9 commits, 4 PRs, 2 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:Trevor primarily focused on modifying and updating documentation related to the SendGrid API. Their contributions involved changing the text in the UI breadcrumbs for the "Edit" link, as well as adding and removing bullet points on the Web API v3 stats overview page. This suggests a focus on ensuring the documentation is clear, accurate, and reflects the current product features. The changes involved precise modifications to existing documentation files.
gatsbyreactstatic-sitetwiliouiux
trotha01/kafka-viz
Feb 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:56 commits, 2 PRs, 42 pushes in 10 days
kafkavisualization
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