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Richard Ockerby

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Richard Ockerby

Worked on the UmbracoDocs and Umbraco-CMS repositories, focusing on documentation quality, onboarding, and type safety for extension and dashboard features. Improved developer experience by clarifying Docker setup instructions, correcting Markdown links, and refining extension registry guidance using Markdown and API documentation skills. Addressed runtime stability in the Umbraco-CMS template dashboard by aligning TypeScript types for the User model, reducing support overhead and preventing errors. Enhanced content management by removing redundant property descriptions in dashboard documentation, establishing a maintainable approach for future updates. Demonstrated disciplined change management and attention to detail across both documentation and front-end TypeScript development tasks.

Overall Statistics

Feature vs Bugs

25%Features

Repository Contributions

6Total
Bugs
3
Commits
6
Features
1
Lines of code
27
Activity Months4

Work History

March 2026

1 Commits • 1 Features

Mar 1, 2026

March 2026 monthly summary for the umbraco/UmbracoDocs repository. Deliverables focused on documentation quality improvements in the dashboard section. A single, targeted change was implemented to remove duplicated dashboard property descriptions, resulting in clearer, more maintainable docs. No major bugs fixed this month in the provided data. Impact includes improved developer experience, faster onboarding, and reduced potential confusion for dashboard-related content. Technologies/skills demonstrated include precise text deduplication, documentation hygiene, and disciplined change management via Git commits.

May 2025

2 Commits

May 1, 2025

May 2025 monthly summary for umbraco/Umbraco-CMS focusing on template dashboard typing alignment and bug fixes. Key outcomes include improved type safety for the Umbraco User model in the template dashboard, preventing runtime errors and improving extension template development.

April 2025

2 Commits

Apr 1, 2025

April 2025 monthly summary focusing on documentation quality and developer experience for the extension ecosystem in the UmbracoDocs repository. Key improvements centered on the Extension Registry documentation, including fixes to a broken Markdown link and corrected guidance on unregistering an extension (import statement and unregister usage). Implemented via two targeted commits, improving accuracy, onboarding, and maintainability of docs for extension developers.

February 2025

1 Commits

Feb 1, 2025

February 2025 monthly summary for the umbraco/UmbracoDocs repository. Focused on improving documentation accuracy for local Docker/Umbra setup and reducing user setup errors through a targeted typo fix. Resulted in clearer instructions and better onboarding for developers and operators using umbraco-compose.

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Quality Metrics

Correctness96.6%
Maintainability96.6%
Architecture96.6%
Performance93.4%
AI Usage20.0%

Skills & Technologies

Programming Languages

MarkdownTypeScript

Technical Skills

API UsageDocumentationFront-end DevelopmentTypeScriptcontent managementdocumentation

Repositories Contributed To

2 repos

Overview of all repositories you've contributed to across your timeline

umbraco/UmbracoDocs

Feb 2025 Mar 2026
3 Months active

Languages Used

MarkdownTypeScript

Technical Skills

DocumentationAPI Usagecontent managementdocumentation

umbraco/Umbraco-CMS

May 2025 May 2025
1 Month active

Languages Used

TypeScript

Technical Skills

Front-end DevelopmentTypeScript