# Deployment Engineering **Deployment Engineering** provides expertise on how to run and deploy Mattermost and the platform as a whole, and act as extensions of R\&D supporting our customers in partnership with post-sales and revenue retention teams. ### Where to find us We rely on Jira to track our day-to-day work & customer-facing work: You can also find us in Mattermost at: ## Who we are Deployment Engineering is led by Ian Tien, co-founder & CEO, and includes: * Jason Blais: Chief of Staff * Doug Lauder: Sr Software Design Engineer * Michael Kochell: Software Design Engineer II * Felipe Garcia: Software Design Engineer II Over time, the team may grow to support a wider number of >$50K ARR customers. Review the subpages to learn more about our areas of responsibilities (AORs), workflows, frequently asked questions, and more. --- # 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://handbook.mattermost.com/operations/deployment-engineering.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.