Cassidy Blaede
OSS Community Manager at ROOST.tools
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolCassidy Blaede is an open source community leader and UX-focused front-end developer with 14 years of experience building sustainable contributor ecosystems and polished user experiences. As a co-founder and longtime CX lead at elementary and later roles at System76 and Endless, she has blended hands-on UI work—improving flagship projects like the elementary.io site and the Code editor—with strategy, partner success, and developer advocacy. She now manages OSS community programs for trust-and-safety tooling at ROOST, translating complex technical and policy needs into accessible contributor workflows. Known for practical accessibility improvements and automation (including GitHub Actions for game builds and advocating FreeDesktop preferences), she excels at aligning designers, maintainers, and partners to ship usable, well-documented open source software. Based in Denver, she brings uncommon depth in both community operations and front-end UX across the Linux desktop ecosystem.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Interactive Digital Studies, Interactive Digital Studies at University of Northern IowaLiberal Arts, Liberal Arts at Des Moines Area Community College
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Github Skills (16)
html10
css10
ux-design10
vala10
gtk10
javascript10
user-experience10
website-development10
website-design10
ui-design10
documentation10
php9
rt9
mobile6
google-chrome6
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
elementary/code
May 2017 - Sep 2021
Code editor designed for elementary OS
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:42 reviews, 44 commits, 103 PRs in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Cassidy primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and overall user experience of the `elementary/code` editor. They implemented features such as adding an inline toolbar to the sidebar, adding zoom functionality, and improving the style switcher. Furthermore, the user addressed UI-related issues like fixing the shift+enter search functionality and ensuring correct loading of color button states. These contributions aimed to improve usability and visual aspects of the code editor.
gtk3code-editorelementary-oselementarypantheon
system76/docs
Aug 2015 - Feb 2019
System76 support documentation site
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:54 commits, 18 PRs, 97 pushes in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Cassidy primarily focused on updating the documentation site's user interface and navigation. They implemented a redirect, adjusted the layout, and added a "Fork Me" ribbon for improved user experience. The user also updated the styling by switching CSS and making updates to the header.
linuxdocumentation-sitesystem76nuxtjsnuxt-content
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