Built To Last: The Craft of Building What Matters
Welcome to this week’s edition of my weekly newsletter “Built To Last”, where I am sharing valuable insights on building high-quality products. Each week, I curate articles and podcasts that caught my attention – resources that I believe are relevant and insightful for everyone looking to build a great product. This Week’s Picks
Built To Last: The Fast & the Curious x AI
Welcome to this week’s edition of my weekly newsletter “Built To Last”, where I am sharing valuable insights on building high-quality products. Each week, I curate articles and podcasts that caught my attention – resources that I believe are relevant and insightful for everyone looking to build a great product. This Week’s Picks
Built To Last: Product Quality, Career Resilience, and Leading in an AI World
Welcome to this week’s edition of my weekly newsletter “Built To Last”, where I am sharing valuable insights on building high-quality products. Each week, I curate articles and podcasts that caught my attention – resources that I believe are relevant and insightful for everyone looking to build a great product. This Week’s Picks
Built To Last: Shipping Projects at Big Tech
Welcome to this week’s edition of my weekly newsletter “Built To Last”, where I am sharing valuable insights on building high-quality products. Each week, I curate articles and podcasts that caught my attention – resources that I believe are relevant and insightful for everyone looking to build a great product. This Week’s Picks
Built To Last: A Practical Guide for QA Specialists
Welcome to this week’s edition of my weekly newsletter “Built To Last”, where I am sharing valuable insights on building high-quality products. Each week, I curate articles and podcasts that caught my attention – resources that I believe are relevant and insightful for everyone looking to build a great product. This Week’s Picks
Built To Last: The Best Way to Measure and Improve Your Product Velocity
Welcome to this week’s edition of my weekly newsletter “Built To Last”, where I am sharing valuable insights on building high-quality products. Each week, I curate articles and podcasts that caught my attention – resources that I believe are relevant and insightful for everyone looking to build a great product. This Week’s Picks
Built To Last: Incident Review and Postmortem Best Practices
Welcome to this week’s edition of my weekly newsletter “Built To Last”, where I am sharing valuable insights on building high-quality products. Each week, I curate articles and podcasts that caught my attention – resources that I believe are relevant and insightful for everyone looking to build a great product. This Week’s Picks
Built To Last: Bug Management that Works
Welcome to the first edition of my weekly newsletter “Built To Last”, where I’ll be sharing valuable insights on building high-quality products. Each week, I’ll curate a selection of articles and podcasts that caught my attention – resources that I believe will be relevant and insightful for everyone looking to build a great product. This…
“Do the Woo” Podcast: Inside the WooCommerce Release Process
5 years later, I am back to the “Do the Woo” podcast. It was great catching up with Bob and chat with James about all things WooCommerce Release. Check out the episode at Inside the WooCommerce Release Process with Julia Amosova or by watching the video below.
Book: “Radical Focus: Achieving Your Most Important Goals with Objectives and Key Results” by Christina Wodtke
Radical Focus: Achieving Your Most Important Goals with Objectives and Key Results by Christina Wodtke is a really great guide for those who are new to OKRs or want to refresh on its key points. This post is a collection of the notes I took as I was reading this book. What is Objective and…
Book: “Helping: How to Offer, Give, and Receive Help” by Edgar Schein
“Helping: How to Offer, Give, and Receive Help” by Edgar Schein is a concise, definitive analysis of what it takes to establish successful, mutually satisfying helping relationships both in the personal sphere and professional work environment. This post is a collection of the notes I took as I was reading the book. What is Helping?…
Book: “Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters” by Richard Rumelt
“Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters” by Richard Rumelt is an insightful read about what a good (and bad) strategy is. It goes into the details of the good strategy contents and how to create one providing numerous examples to support the arguments. The author is considered to be one of…
Book: “The Vision Driven Leader” by Michael Hyatt
“The Vision Driven Leader” by Michael Hyatt is a practical guide on how to drive success in any organization by developing a vision and communicating that vision to those you lead. I recently finished this book and found it to be applicable to the work I do as an Engineering Manager. This post is a…
Book: “The Making of a Manager” by Julie Zhuo
I recently became a Team Lead at Automattic where I’ve been working for the past 4+ years. I manage a hybrid team of Quality Engineers, Code Wranglers and Developer Advocates. Together, we focus on quality and stability of WooCommerce Core platform as well as on the developer tools and experience. My previous team was growing.…
Anna Wintour Teaches Creativity and Leadership
Recently I watched the MasterClass of Anna Wintour who has been editor-in-chief of Vogue magazine since 1988 and artistic director for Condé Nast, Vogue’s publisher, since 2013. In her class, Wintour teaches creativity and leadership. While she works in the fashion industry I found her tips to be very relevant and applicable in tech or…
Women Who Code Vancouver: Remote Work 101 – Finding and Acing a Remote Role
Earlier this week I was a guest speaker at “Remote Work 101: Finding and Acing a Remote Role” online event organized by Women Who Code Vancouver. The panel consisted of another speaker – Saba El-Hilo – a Senior Staff Data Engineer at Mapbox who specializes in building data-intensive applications, tooling and pipelines. The webinar was moderated by Malinda…
“Do the Woo” Podcast: Testing WooCommerce Releases
I was invited to be a guest on Bob Dunn’s “Do the Woo” podcast a few weeks ago. As a Software Quality Engineer on the WooCommerce Core team, I spoke about how we test WooCommerce releases. My hope is that our customers feel more confident updating WooCommerce after hearing about our testing efforts and practices:
WordCamp EU 2019: I volunteered. Here is why you should too!
Recently in June, I had the opportunity to attend WordCamp EU 2019 in Berlin – not just as an attendee, but as a volunteer. It was my first time volunteering at such a large-scale WordPress event, and I was thrilled (and a little nervous) to be part of the team behind the scenes. I was…
WordCamp NYC 2018: Interview with Gold Sponsors (WooCommerce and Jetpack)
Over the weekend of September 15-16th, 2018 I’ve worked at WordCamp NYC 2018. I was a part of the WooCommerce / Jetpack sponsor’s booth. Translation Services USA came by our table to take an interview about our products:
From Tech Support Engineer To JavaScript Developer. Part II: Coding Bootcamp
3 months into my journey taking the online courses after work, I realized that I made some good progress. However, I still couldn’t write a line of code without a prompt in advance. This is how online courses could be dangerous in a way. You learn to work only with a helpful video prior to…
From Tech Support Engineer To JavaScript Developer. Part I: Online Courses
About a year and half ago, in March 2017, I decided that I wanted to become a Software Engineer. I said to myself that I would do anything it takes to get there. And so my journey began. BACKSTORY In 2016 my husband and I relocated from Miami to New York – the city I’ve…
Julia Amosova: Happiness Engineer – on working at Automattic
In 2014, Automattic (where I currently work), started to work, as a company, on facilitating spaces for discussions about diversity at Automattic. And at our 2016 annual gathering of all of our employees from over 50 countries, we decided to share what we are doing about diversity and inclusion with the rest of the world. As…
Accountex 2017: How Accountants can use WordPress.com in their business
On September 6-8, 2017 I was working at Accountex USA 2017 in Boston representing Automattic and WordPress.com. The event was filled with interesting presentations, engaging conversations and collaborative atmosphere. I also had a pleasure to be interviewed by AccountingWEB and talk about how accounting professionals can use WordPress.com in their business. See the full interview below:
The Wall Street Journal: Why Remote Work Can’t Be Stopped
I was honored for my New York City home office to be featured in The Wall Street Journal’s article “Why Remote Work Can’t Be Stopped” by Christopher Mims. https://twitter.com/mims/status/871357868204851201 If you don’t have a WSJ subscription you will likely hit a paywall. In this case, you can download the pdf of the article here.
WordPress NYC Meetup: WP.com vs WP.org Event – The Power of WordPress.com
Yesterday I’ve been a guest speaker at WordPress NYC’s meetup – WP.com vs WP.org Event: The Power of WordPress.com: I spoke about the difference between open source WordPress project and WordPress.com. You can find my presentation slides below:
WooCommerce NYC Meetup: How to Ship with WooCommerce
Yesterday I’ve been a guest speaker at WooCommerce NYC’s Meetup: How to Ship with WooCommerce / SEO for your ecommerce: I spoke about most popular shipping extensions for WooCommerce and how to use them. You can find my presentation slides below:
