Bio

Overview

Allan Duquette Is a Canadian technical writer born in Ontario. He has spent the last several years educating, training, and writing documentation for an array of industries, from children’s toys to machine learning algorithms. His laid-back writing style and sense of humor gives his docs a unique voice that engages the reader while also providing the information they need. You can always find Allan’s desk in an office by looking for the one covered in plastic dinosaurs.

Professional Achievements

Allan’s technical writing expertise and culture-building talents have landed him in speaking engagements on podcasts and an acknowledgement in The Product is Docs, an essential guide to starting a career in technical writer. He co-founded the Write the Docs Book Club with Daryl White, building a community of technical writers eager to expand their expertise with relevant literature. With Daryl, he helped grow that community from a small group of ~250 to a massive community of over 3,300 people.

Spare Time

Allan’s hobbies include games, illustration, writing fiction, hiking, and reading anything with wizards and/or robots. He has an encyclopaedic knowledge of Canadian animation industry history, and can host a lecture series on the cult Canadian animation classic Rock and Rule.

When not working on his hobbies, Allan serves his community. He works regularly with Dartmouth Learning Network as a volunteer tutor, specializing in digital literacy. He teaches underprivileged folks how to navigate our current digital world, and has helped professionals looking to boost their excel skills, refugees looking to attend college, and retired folks looking to start their own part-time business.

Allan also volunteers with the Rainbow Refugee Association of Nova Scotia (RRANS), a local non-profit that sponsors LGBTQ+ refugees from countries with dangerously strong anti-LGBTQ+ policies. He assists with helping newcomers from all over the world navigate Canadian culture and customs, and provides a welcome space for newcomers to vent and find companionship. So far, he has helped 8 newcomers adjust to their new surroundings.

Allan lives in Nova Scotia, Canada, with his husband, Daniel. They are currently in the process of adopting two children.