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# 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.