I created my account on WordPress.com in July 2007, but I hadn’t used it much until 2015 when I joined Automattic as a JavaScript Wrangler. 2015 was also when I migrated my website to WordPress from my CMS of choice back then – Drupal. I must admit that I had a lot of experience developing with Drupal at that point, but almost none with WordPress integrations. Well, I think I helped to build two or three simple websites with WordPress.
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My Name Is
It turns out that whenever I interact with people who aren’t familiar with the Polish language, they have a hard time repeating my name. That’s why I started using its English version on social media.
If you were ever curious, this is how I pronounce my actual name Grzegorz:
There is also a notational standard IPA for the phonemic and phonetic representation of all spoken languages, which encodes pronunciation as:
/ˈɡʐɛ.ɡɔʂ/
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Grzegorz
New role as a JavaScript Wrangler at Automattic
Today I started my new job at Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, which serves more than 15.8 billion pages a month. I’m extremely excited that I became a part of 100% distributed team where everyone primarily works from home. I joined over 320 passionate people from all around the world, and I will work as a JavaScript Wrangler. By the way, Automattic is always hiring.
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