Technical Documentation Portfolio
Danny Salman
Lead technical writer and program manager with six years building documentation and technical content. I work across Engineering, Product, Marketing, and Growth to ship resources that empower implementations, drive acquisition, and accelerate time-to-value.
What I Build
Guides, explainers, tutorials, API references, quickstarts, interactive examples, release notes, runbooks, SOPs, whitepapers, specifications, RFCs, and technical blogs. Documentation platforms built with static site generators, headless CMS, CCMS, or custom solutions. Information architecture, knowledge funnels, entry and exit points mapped to user stories. Hundreds of resources across products, services, infrastructure, tooling, and platforms.
How I Work
Program management from scoping through delivery. Embedded in product development, engineering, marketing, and growth. Comfortable with docs-as-code, CMS workflows, and custom tooling. SEO, content strategy, A/B testing, and analytics to drive acquisition and demonstrate ROI.
Standards & Practice
Grounded in the Diátaxis framework, Good Docs Project templates, and industry style guides including Google, Microsoft, and Oxford. Active in the Write the Docs community. Experience creating internal style guides, leading technical editing, and establishing documentation standards and governance for engineering organizations.
On AI and knowledge: As developers shift to LLMs, code assistants, and agentic IDEs, technical writers become knowledge architects. The role is proactive: ensuring product knowledge integrates into modern interfaces and discovery channels. Meeting users and developers where they are, whether in documentation, a generative AI prompt, or an AI-powered workflow.
Contribution Highlights
Education
Background in engineering, systems design, and public policy. Currently an on-call research assistant at McMaster's Digital Society Lab, researching digital identity systems in Canada.
MEng, Engineering and Public Policy · McMaster University, 2025
MPP, Digital Society · McMaster University, 2024
BEng, Computer Engineering · Toronto Metropolitan University, 2021
Technical content I've led
Full-time Roles
Senior Technical Project and Documentation Manager · All in Bits · 2023–2025 · Docs: Custom Go (gnoweb) · Playground: Lit + Tailwind + React
Led technical education, developer experience, and product engineering for Gno, a smart contract platform powered by Go. Managed DevEx and DevRel squads across cross-functional teams. Directed knowledge management strategy, authored the Yellow Paper protocol specification, and led development of Gno Studio. Created sample contracts and applications for onboarding.
Contributed to and stewarded developer tools and services, using them as entry points to create user stories for newcomers onboarding into Gno. Examples menu, import functionality. Architected the embeddable playground so any page can surface dynamic, interactive content for an enhanced developer experience.
Lead Technical Writer · Polygon Labs · 2022–2023 · Docusaurus · MkDocs · Jekyll
Led the documentation team across the Polygon ecosystem, unifying architecture for PoS, zkEVM, Supernets, and SDK. Grew documentation engagement by 10× and established docs-as-code workflows across engineering teams.
Polygon Edge documentation for building Edge-Powered chains
Technical Educator · Web3 Foundation · 2021–2022 · Docusaurus
Drove technical content strategy at Web3 Foundation, stewarding the Polkadot Wiki and ecosystem documentation. Educated thousands of developers and validators through workshops, webinars, and hands-on enablement programs.
Software Developer · IBM · 2019–2020 · Custom + AsciiDoc
Part of the Developer Experience team for Open Liberty at IBM. Authored developer guides teaching microservices architecture, enterprise Java patterns, and modern front-end integration with Jakarta EE.
Short-term Contracts & Ad Hoc
Senior Technical Writer · Sei Labs · 2024–2025 · Nextra + Tailwind + custom design system
Revamped documentation to align with strategic requirements from Sei Labs leadership, the DevEx team, and Sei Foundation DevRel. Created custom components and established a design system for the documentation platform. Created explainers, tutorials, API documentation, reference guides, and the Sei knowledge base. Partnered with Monaco to seed their initial docs. Collaborated on the Sei Giga whitepaper.
Example: EVM documentation section
Senior Technical Writer · Avail Project · 2023–2024 · Docusaurus
Bootstrapped documentation during Avail's incubation within Polygon Labs. Led docs through the spin-off into an independent project. Created explainers, tutorials, and operator guides. Authored all content for the Clash of Nodes incentivized testnet campaign.
Example: Solutions architecture using Avail
Senior Technical Writer · Protocol Labs · 2022–2023 · Hugo
Revamped documentation working directly with go-libp2p stewards. Authored explainers, transport protocol guides, and implementation guides with examples for Go, Rust, and JavaScript libraries.
Example: Transport guides
Technical Writer · Push Protocol · 2022–2023 · Docusaurus · Ghost
Created SDK integration guides and developer tutorials for Push Protocol's decentralized notification infrastructure. Authored technical blog posts explaining protocol architecture and integration patterns.
Example: Technical blog posts