Avicus Delacroix
Technical Writer at Voximplant
Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg, Russia
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Top SchoolAvicus Delacroix is a Technical Writer based in Saint Petersburg with six years' experience creating developer-facing documentation and localization. Currently at Voximplant and formerly at DevExpress, he combines product, engineering, and customer perspectives from prior roles in client services and technical support. Trained in linguistics and with a background as a translator/interpreter, he applies linguistic precision to documentation and UI text and contributed as a localization specialist to the popular open-source Questie WoW Classic addon to make it accessible to Russian users. He favors concise, self-explanatory technical content—echoing his GitHub credo that "code is like humor; if you have to explain it, it's bad"—and iterates translations and config changes until they read naturally. This blend of language craft, hands-on localization, and customer empathy helps him turn complex APIs and features into readable, usable guidance for international audiences.
6 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Linguistics, Linguistics at Ryazan State Pedagogical University
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Github Skills (6)
lua10
localization10
world-of-warcraft10
windows-106
windows10iotcore6
raspberry-pi-26
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Questie/Questie
Aug 2019 - Aug 2019
Questie: The WoW Classic quest helper
Role in this project:
Localization / Internationalization Specialist
Localization / Internationalization SpecialistContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 5 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Avicus's contributions primarily involve translating and adapting the Questie addon for the Russian (ruRU) locale. They focused on modifying configuration files, specifically `config.lua`, to translate UI elements, debug messages, and slash commands. The work encompasses multiple iterations, refining the translations and addressing suggestions for improved accuracy. This demonstrates a key role in making the addon accessible to a wider audience by enabling use in the Russian language.
minecraftquestworld-of-warcraftcharactervanilla
apepehalab/top
Jun 2019 - Jan 2020
Apepeha Game Lab — Tales of Pangaea — Unity Repository
Contributions:68 commits, 16 PRs, 57 pushes in 7 months
gametalesgame-developmentunitypangaea
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