Scott Anderson
Product Manager at InfluxData
Idaho Falls, Idaho, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolScott Anderson is a product manager and creator with 11 years of experience blending design, writing, and engineering to make complex developer tools more usable. At InfluxData he has moved from technical writer and docs lead into product, contributing hands-on to InfluxDB, Flux, and the TICKstack—everything from UI improvements and Flux function docs to geo data functions and docs tooling. He combines a designer’s attention to clarity with full-stack development chops, often improving documentation pipelines, search/navigation, and frontend UX for large open-source projects. Based in Idaho Falls, he’s as comfortable shipping TypeScript UI work as he is authoring specs and shaping product direction, and he’s known for turning nuanced technical features into approachable user experiences.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Brigham Young University-Idaho
Github Skills (25)
javascript10
css10
typescript10
geospatial10
spatial-data10
geo10
go10
front-end-development10
typescript-types10
flux10
html10
spatial10
fluxor10
typescripts10
influxdb10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
influxdata/docs.influxdata.com-ARCHIVE
Mar 2018 - Jan 2023
ARCHIVE - 1.x docs for InfluxData
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer (with a focus on documentation)
Full-stack Developer (with a focus on documentation)Contributions:4 reviews, 1419 commits, 556 PRs in 4 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Scott primarily contributed to the InfluxData documentation website. Their work involved fixing bugs related to the product switcher on section landing pages and adding styling to h2s. They also removed unnecessary code and integrated changes from the master branch. Furthermore, the user improved the documentation by implementing a dynamic page navigation and incorporating conditional logic to prevent legacy versions from being indexed.
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influxdata/docs-v2
Dec 2018 - Jan 2023
InfluxData Documentation that covers InfluxDB Cloud, InfluxDB OSS 2.x, InfluxDB OSS 1.x, InfluxDB Enterprise, Telegraf, Chronograf, Kapacitor, and Flux.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1974 reviews, 3223 commits, 2273 PRs in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Scott contributed to the InfluxData Documentation repository by implementing the ability to set seotitle options for the header partial, establish an asset pipeline, and create a top navigation structure. The user also styled the sidebar search bar and added new functionality by implementing tabbed content and by adding the ability to truncate content. Additionally, the user added a feature callout for the URL selector.
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