Wayne Zhang
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolWayne Zhang is a seasoned technical writer and information architect with over 16 years of experience creating user-focused documentation for enterprise software, and 11 years of hands-on experience in software-related projects. He has led documentation efforts at IBM Rational, coordinating cross-functional teams to produce installation guides, quick start guides, online help, and release docs while improving templates and processes that reduced support calls. Technically fluent in HTML, DITA, XML and tools like Arbortext and Oxygen, he combines deep authoring-tool expertise with source-control and change-management practices. Unusually for a docs lead, he also contributes to low-level systems work—having adapted libuv for z/OS—bringing a rare systems-level perspective that helps bridge developer and user needs. Bilingual in English and Chinese, he excels at translating complex technical concepts into clear, user-centric content.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Journalism, Journalism, Communication, and related programs, Master's thesis was evaluated and awarded with Pass with Distinction., Master of Journalism, Journalism, Communication, and related programs, Master's thesis was evaluated and awarded with Pass with Distinction. at Carleton University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (12)
zos10
c-language10
system-programming10
cprogramming-language10
sys10
operating-system10
multiplatform9
memory-management9
cross-platform9
asynchronous8
networking8
io8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
libuv/libuv
Aug 2020 - Jul 2022
Cross-platform asynchronous I/O
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer (with System-Level focus)
Back-end Developer (with System-Level focus)Contributions:15 reviews, 26 commits, 14 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Wayne primarily contributed to the `libuv/libuv` repository by implementing and adapting the library for the z/OS operating system. Their work involved introducing and integrating the ZOSLIB library, which provides POSIX APIs and other functionalities not available in the LE C Runtime Library. The user's contributions included modifying existing functions to use ZOSLIB implementations, addressing issues related to time stamps, and managing memory allocation for IP addresses, all while also addressing several bugs in the existing code. This work also involved adding support for features like process titles, constrained memory, and signal handling on z/OS.
unixunicornsasynchronouswindowsio
ibmruntimes/zrexx
May 2020 - May 2021
Call ZOS REXX scripts reside in PDS from node-js with IRXEXEC
Contributions:3 reviews, 2 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year
rexxnode-jsjavascriptnodejszos
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