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Jo Stichbury

Jo Stichbury led documentation engineering and onboarding improvements for the mckinsey/vizro repository over 14 months, focusing on AI integration, configuration management, and technical writing. She migrated documentation tooling from MkDocs to Zensical, streamlined build processes, and enhanced navigation and content structure to accelerate user onboarding and reduce support overhead. Using Python and YAML, Jo delivered end-to-end tutorials for AI-assisted dashboard creation, clarified deployment workflows, and standardized terminology across modules. Her work included API documentation, plugin management, and SEO enhancements, resulting in more maintainable, discoverable, and reliable documentation that supports both internal developers and external users in adopting Vizro.

Overall Statistics

Feature vs Bugs

88%Features

Repository Contributions

57Total
Bugs
3
Commits
57
Features
22
Lines of code
7,641
Activity Months14

Work History

April 2026

2 Commits • 1 Features

Apr 1, 2026

April 2026 key accomplishments for mckinsey/vizro focused on improving documentation usability, maintainability, and build reliability. Migrated docs tooling from MkDocs to Zensical with updated configuration, links, and site structure, and stabilized builds by excluding medium.com from the link-check process. These changes reduced maintenance time, improved onboarding, and decreased build failures, delivering measurable business value for internal developers and external users.

March 2026

2 Commits • 1 Features

Mar 1, 2026

March 2026 (2026-03) monthly summary for mckinsey/vizro. Focused on improving user onboarding and developer documentation for the Vizro e2e Flow Plugin. Delivered a comprehensive Documentation and Onboarding Update that clarifies installation steps, compatibility details, and the dashboard design/build skills overview for the e2e workflow, enabling faster adoption and reduced support overhead. The work is supported by documentation-focused commits to the Vizro repo.

January 2026

1 Commits • 1 Features

Jan 1, 2026

January 2026 monthly summary for mckinsey/vizro focusing on maintenance and documentation hygiene. Completed a documentation configuration cleanup by removing the obsolete Google site verification token, aligning docs with current usage due to the discontinuation of the Search Console integration. No user-facing features were delivered this month; this work reduces configuration overhead and lowers risk of misconfigurations.

December 2025

5 Commits • 2 Features

Dec 1, 2025

December 2025 monthly summary: Focused on documentation improvements across two key repositories (mckinsey/vizro and mckinsey/agents-at-scale-ark) to accelerate onboarding, reduce support load, and standardize terminology. Primary work centered on user guidance enhancements and core concepts documentation. No major bug fixes this month; the emphasis was on documentation quality, contributor alignment, and laying groundwork for AI-assisted workflows.

November 2025

5 Commits • 1 Features

Nov 1, 2025

November 2025 monthly performance overview for mckinsey/vizro: Delivered comprehensive documentation enhancements for PyCafe and Vizro-MCP tutorials, added a Vizro-MCP VS Code tutorial, improved link validation, and upgraded the MkDocs plugin to support full-output docs generation. These changes improve developer onboarding, reduce support overhead, and increase the reliability and navigability of the docs.

October 2025

3 Commits • 1 Features

Oct 1, 2025

October 2025 monthly summary for mckinsey/vizro focusing on documentation improvements for Vizro-MCP setup and MkDocs versioning, and formatting enhancements for VS Code installation docs. Delivered versioned links for documentation via mkdocs-llmstxt, added explicit guidance on selecting Vizro-MCP versions in setup (mcp.json via uvx), and improved docs formatting for clarity. These changes standardize documentation, improve onboarding, and reduce post-deploy support queries.

September 2025

9 Commits • 3 Features

Sep 1, 2025

September 2025 monthly summary for the mckinsey/vizro repository. Focused on delivering comprehensive documentation improvements, Cursor integration tutorials, and improved navigation to accelerate adoption of Vizro-MCP and reduce onboarding time. Emphasis on accuracy, maintainability, and cross-linking to support developers and product teams.

August 2025

8 Commits • 4 Features

Aug 1, 2025

August 2025 monthly work summary focusing on documentation enhancements, build optimizations, and AI-assisted tooling for Vizro-MCP. Key accomplishments include a major Docs UX/API overhaul, build pipeline simplification, and new Claude Desktop tutorial to enable dashboard creation via prompts; introduced llms.txt generation to improve AI-driven knowledge extraction.

July 2025

3 Commits • 2 Features

Jul 1, 2025

July 2025 monthly summary for repository mckinsey/vizro. Focus this month was on documentation and onboarding enhancements to streamline Kedro integration and cross-host Vizro usage. No major bug fixes were recorded; the emphasis was on improving developer experience and establishing a solid foundation for future features.

May 2025

7 Commits • 1 Features

May 1, 2025

May 2025 (2025-05) delivered a comprehensive Vizro Documentation Refresh and Vizro-MCP Adoption across Vizro-AI, Vizro-Core, and Vizro-MCP. This work focused on improving onboarding, discoverability, and user guidance by overhauling documentation structure, content, and navigation, and by introducing deprecation messaging for Vizro-AI. Key outcomes include alignment of Vizro-AI docs with Vizro-Core, UI/navigation polish, and icon/font updates, plus the addition of FAQs, licensing, and roadmap content to support informed usage and policy visibility.

February 2025

5 Commits • 2 Features

Feb 1, 2025

February 2025 monthly summary for mckinsey/vizro: Delivered key features and documentation improvements that enhance user onboarding, deployment flexibility, and documentation reliability. Focused on enabling end-to-end chart creation and dashboard assembly via prompts, robust deployment guidance, and corrected documentation to reduce user friction and support contributor onboarding.

January 2025

2 Commits • 1 Features

Jan 1, 2025

Monthly work summary for 2025-01 focused on Vizro documentation improvements for Dash Enterprise deployment and SEO readiness. Delivered two documentation commits that clarify deployment steps for Vizro on Dash Enterprise and add a Google site verification meta tag via MkDocs override to improve search engine discoverability. No major bugs fixed this month. Impact: clearer enterprise deployment guidance, improved search discoverability, and a solid foundation for faster onboarding. Technologies/skills demonstrated: MkDocs, MkDocs overrides, Dash Enterprise deployment workflows, documentation discipline, and SEO readiness.

December 2024

1 Commits • 1 Features

Dec 1, 2024

December 2024 monthly summary for mckinsey/vizro: Delivered Google Site Verification Tag integration in MkDocs to enable ownership verification via Google Search Console. This targeted docs-only change improves governance and SEO readiness with minimal risk. No major bugs fixed in this repo this month. Overall impact: easier ownership verification, improved documentation alignment, and smoother onboarding for stakeholders. Technologies/skills demonstrated: MkDocs configuration, Google site verification tag deployment, version control discipline, and clear commit traceability.

November 2024

4 Commits • 1 Features

Nov 1, 2024

Month 2024-11 — Focused effort on mckinsey/vizro to improve documentation quality and reduce false positives in doc tooling. Delivered a user-facing Documentation Refresh with clearer examples, removal of unnecessary IDs in code snippets, and reorganized authors page listing; implemented an Acronym Linting Improvement to include MIT in Vale, preventing unnecessary warnings. These changes enhance onboarding, reduce support overhead, and improve overall documentation maintainability and accuracy.

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Quality Metrics

Correctness97.2%
Maintainability97.0%
Architecture96.2%
Performance95.6%
AI Usage34.2%

Skills & Technologies

Programming Languages

DockerfileHTMLJavaScriptMarkdownPythonShellTOMLYAML

Technical Skills

AI IntegrationAI integrationAI systemsAI-Assisted DevelopmentAPI DocumentationCode ExamplesConfigurationConfiguration ManagementContent ManagementDashboard DevelopmentData VisualizationDocumentationFront-end DevelopmentJupyter NotebooksKubernetes

Repositories Contributed To

2 repos

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

mckinsey/vizro

Nov 2024 Apr 2026
14 Months active

Languages Used

MarkdownPythonYAMLHTMLDockerfileTOMLShell

Technical Skills

Code ExamplesConfiguration ManagementDocumentationTechnical WritingWebsite VerificationMkDocs

mckinsey/agents-at-scale-ark

Dec 2025 Dec 2025
1 Month active

Languages Used

JavaScriptMarkdown

Technical Skills

AI systemsKubernetescontent structuringdocumentationtechnical writing