Dru Lavigne
Content Manager at Network Time Foundation
Beaubassin East, New Brunswick, Canada
Summary
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RockstarDru Lavigne is a content manager and technical writer with 13 years of experience focused on open source operating systems and BSD ecosystems. She has a long history of leadership and community service, including roles as Director of Storage Engineering and Technical Documentation Manager at iXsystems, chairing the BSD Certification Group, and serving on the FreeBSD Foundation board. Dru combines hands-on front-end contributions—improving usability and help text in the TrueNAS web UI—with deep expertise in curriculum development and conference presentations (slides available online). Based in New Brunswick, Canada, she excels at turning complex system and storage concepts into clear, user-friendly documentation and training. An understated strength is her knack for catching small UX and text details that materially improve open-source user experience.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (11)
uid10
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
nas10
typescript-types10
angular9
html8
css7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
truenas/webui
May 2018 - Nov 2019
TrueNAS UI
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 9 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Dru primarily focused on updating UI elements within the TrueNAS web UI. Their contributions involved modifying helptext and component files, specifically targeting tooltips and display elements. The commits demonstrate attention to detail, fixing typos, and adding missing elements to enhance the user interface and user experience. This included correcting and adding information to the interface to make it more user friendly and helpful.
truenasangular-uiangular
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