Zac Dover
Contract Technical Writer at Self-Employed
Greater Brisbane Area Australia
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Zac Dover is a pragmatic contract technical writer with 11 years of experience crafting clear, no-nonsense documentation for virtualization, containers, storage, APIs, and security. He has led documentation at the Ceph Foundation and contributed to the widely used Ceph storage project, focusing on clarity, grammar, and structure to make complex distributed systems approachable. His background includes senior roles at Red Hat where he documented containerization, virtualization, and platform products, and he now combines open-source work with contract engagements. A student of computing history, Zac brings perspective on how past innovations shape modern infrastructure and a healthy skepticism of faddish tech trends. He pairs humanities training in German and philosophy with deep technical writing practice, making him adept at translating engineering detail into usable content. Always open to documentation requests, he prefers plain language over jargon and delivers pragmatic, user-centered docs.
11 years of coding experience
Master of Arts (M.A.) German Language and Literature, Master of Arts (M.A.) German Language and Literature at University of AlabamaB.A. Philosophy German, B.A. Philosophy German at The University of Alabama
German
Github Skills (5)
rs10
documentation10
technical-writing10
markdown6
markdown-it6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ceph/ceph
Nov 2019 - Jan 2023
Ceph is a distributed object, block, and file storage platform
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:1979 reviews, 1626 commits, 4822 PRs in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:The user, Zac Dover, is primarily a technical writer focused on improving the documentation for the Ceph project. His commits are focused on refining grammar, formatting, and structure within existing documentation files. The user's contributions involve updating links, correcting typos, and rephrasing sentences to enhance clarity and readability for users.
fusefile-storagecephstorageopenebs
zdover23/zonedstorage.io-1
Aug 2021 - Oct 2022
zonedstorage.io website
Contributions:6 PRs, 91 pushes, 54 branches in 1 year 2 months
javascriptreactzonedstorage
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