Documentation
As a technical author at Canonical, my work is split between engineering and documentation practice teams.
Engineering
Collaborating with engineers to improve both the documentation and the product.
Involves: writing, editing, architecting, automating, testing, styling, and designing.
Ubuntu on WSL
A distribution of Ubuntu for the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).
authd
A service for authenticating Ubuntu machines with cloud identity providers.
ADSys
A service for managing and configuring Ubuntu machines with Active Directory.
Documentation practice
Collaborating with other technical authors to advance documentation in general.
Involves: writing, theorising, experimenting, presenting, and influencing.
Talks
- Video in documentation (Write the Docs, Ireland)
- Recipes and algorithms (CODA Community Hour)
- 10 ways to document terminal commands (CODA Community Hour)
Contributions
- Canonical style guide: rules and standards for documentation
- Sphinx starter pack: batteries-included documentation generator
- Canonical Open Documentation Academy: initiative to get people started in open-source
- Docs analytics: project to generate and analyse documentation data