# Portfolio I'm a technical developer advocate based in San Francisco, CA. I specialize in developer-focused documentation, particularly around observability, deployment workflows, and platform integrations. I was part of the Documentation team at Datadog, where I managed several documentation sets for digital experience monitoring (DEM), software delivery (CI/CD), and Marketplace integrations. I also contributed multiple posts to the [Datadog Engineering Blog](https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/engineering/). Earlier in my career, I was a technical writer at Cisco AppDynamics, Salesforce, and a UX content strategist at Vinebase, acquired by Corksy. In my free time, I enjoy writing, updating, and publishing posts on my blog, *The Developer's Pen.* You can explore them in the [Blog](/blog/becoming-a-fledgling-technical-writer.md) section. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://www.austin-lai.com/about-me/portfolio.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.