Kari Halsted
Senior Documentation Manager
Saskatchewan, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolKari Halsted is a Senior Documentation Manager with over a decade of experience shaping documentation strategy, information architecture, and technical writing for complex software products. She has led documentation teams and migrations (Markdown, DITA) at organizations including Datadog, Puppet, and IBM, combining hands-on editing with content-release and style-guide governance. At Datadog she contributed directly to the company’s public documentation site, touching headers, shortcodes, security rules, and serverless APM examples—demonstrating both editorial and full‑stack repo fluency. Kari teaches and coaches business and technical writing, advocates useful processes for remote teams, and focuses on voice, terminology, and usability to make technical content approachable. Her background in mathematics and early research experience gives her a data-minded approach to information design and a knack for turning good ideas into practical documentation systems. She brings an intersectional feminist perspective to inclusive content practices and team mentorship.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Mathematics, Bachelor’s Degree, Mathematics at Trinity Western University
English
Github Skills (10)
markdown10
hugo10
markdown-it10
documentation10
html9
css9
api8
javascript8
security7
go7
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
DataDog/documentation
Jun 2020 - Jan 2023
The source for Datadog's documentation site.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2769 reviews, 3246 commits, 2010 PRs in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Kari's commits primarily involved modifications to the Datadog documentation site. Their work included merging master branches and updating the header, partials, and shortcodes, indicating a focus on maintaining and improving the site's structure and presentation. The commits also touched on serverless APM and security rules, and contributions to the code examples.
datadoghugowiki
tina550/documentation
Jun 2020 - Feb 2021
The source for Datadog's documentation site.
Contributions:12 commits in 7 months
datadog
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