Experienced, friendly, and creative open source community builder passionate about connecting people and technology, equipping developers with the best tools, and building tech for good.
Three years as partner success engineer. Over a decade of open source development, consensus building, and community engagement. Strong background in user experience design and web development.
Building and supporting an active and sustainable contributor community around our tools, as well as helping improve the discourse and understanding of open source in the trust and safety world.
Led the community efforts around game-making and learning programs, and acted as the organization’s open source/community subject matter expert.
Acted as the bridge between our engineering team and our dozens of impact partners deploying the open source, Linux-based Endless OS and other technologies around the world.
Understood and synthesized the wants and needs of multiple partner organizations, turning them into actionable tasks for Foundation teams
Developed and delivered technical training and support for partner engineering teams
Provided internal training and support within the organization for complex systems
Crafted blog posts, live streams, and social media posts to share the organizations’s work with partners and the public
Developed and maintained both technical and user-centered support and training documentation
Directly solved technical problems, contributing code and configuration changes
Owned organization-spanning meetings to ensure alignment between partners and internal teams
Represented the organization on the nonprofit GNOME Foundation Advisory Board
Initiated, researched, and advocated for a FreeDesktop accent color preference that is now shipping across the Linux desktop ecosystem
Co-founded the company and helped it grow to sustain multiple employees while releasing 6 major OS releases and a pay-what-you-can app store.
Responsible for the overall experience and messaging of the company and products, user experience architecture, and being a liaison between end users, OEMs, developers, and other open source projects.
UX research, design, and advocacy
Led and managed organization-wide initiatives
Developer and user documentation, including maintaining user guides and Human Interface Guidelines
Community engagement, including monthly blog posts and livestreams
Third-party developer outreach and advocacy
Press and marketing including release announcements and topical blog posts
Coordinated in-person development sprints with employees and open source contributors
Organized and coordinated a two-day streamed developer conference event with multiple global speakers and live Q&A
Developed and launched an OEM program with three global OEM retailers
Initiated and advocated for a standardized FreeDesktop dark style preference that has been widely adopted across the Linux desktop ecosystem
UX research, design, and testing of critical customer-facing user interfaces across web and desktop
Communicated with and translated between stakeholders, including designers, engineers, customers, and management
Constant collaborative design and development using git and GitHub
Coordinated open source efforts with upstream open source projects
Front-end web development of flagship e-commerce and marketing website
Worked directly with marketing team to turn concepts, campaigns, and designs into code
Appointed to aid in keeping and publishing minutes.
Appointed to the GNOME Foundation board of directors to help govern, represent, and steer the non-profit. After my initial appointment, I was elected by the GNOME Foundation membership to serve an additional term as director.
I assist with technical documentation, writing public announcements, Flathub’s social media presence, and developer relations.
I contribute to platform and app ecosystem UX design, community engagement, and GNOME’s social media presence.
Helped organize the annual GUADEC conference in Denver, CO with hundreds of attendees from around the globe
Prepared and presented developer-oriented talks at open source conferences such as GUADEC, Linux App Summit, Ubuntu Summit, and SCaLE