I studied Applied Mathematics at the Southern Federal University (formerly Rostov State University) in Rostov-on-Don, Russia.
I have a passion for open source, which started with contributing documentation and bug fixes for a popular file manager in 2002. While creating some websites for my university, I’ve discovered a growing web publishing software called WordPress, which quickly grabbed my attention due to its simplicity, extensibility, and an amazing community. Giving back to the community was a natural thing for me, so I’ve started translating WordPress into Russian, answering questions on support forums, and participating in core development.
I’ve joined Yoast in July 2015, and since then I’m working on WordPress full time as a core committer and an active member of several other teams: Polyglots (which translates WordPress into 200+ languages), Support (which helps users to find answers to their questions), and Meta (which manages the WordPress.org network). I’m also a frequent speaker at WordPress conferences, called WordCamps, in Russia and Europe.
In my spare time, I enjoy listening to music, playing guitar or keyboards, watching movies, going for a walk or a bike ride, repairing all kinds of things.
In June, Andrea and Carolina attended WordCamp Europe 2024 in Torino, Italy. We also put some finishing touches on WordPress 6.6. Read on to learn what we’ve been up to for the past month! Our monthly updates Andrea On June I enjoyed attending WordCamp Europe 2024. For me, the conference journey started the day before […]
Read: "A month with the WordPress core team – June 2024"
As WordPress 6.3 enters the release candidate stage, we’re putting some finishing touches on it and continue working on some long-standing projects. Read on to learn what we’ve been up to for the past month! Our monthly updates Andrea In the last month, with the WordPress 6.3 release approaching, testing of new features and user […]
Read: "A month with the WordPress Core team – July 2023"
In February, we moved forward with some of our long-running projects. We worked on the SQLite database proposal, forms and details/summary blocks, PHP autoloader for WordPress core, updating documentation for themes, improving translatable strings in Gutenberg, and addressing coding standards issues in core, among other things. Read on to learn more! Our monthly updates Ari […]
Read: "A month with the WordPress Core team – February 2023"
As WordPress 6.1 enters the release candidate stage, we’re putting some finishing touches on it and start working on early tickets for WordPress 6.2. Read on to learn what we’ve been up to for the past couple of weeks! Our weekly updates Ari Unfortunately, after my trip to the Netherlands in the Yoast headquarters, I […]
Read: "A week with us: WordPress 6.1 RC1 & RC2"
As summer comes to an end, some of our colleagues have been enjoying their well-deserved time off, though our work on WordPress always goes on. Read on to learn what we’ve been up to for the past few weeks! Yoast Contributor day We also want to let you know that there will be a Yoast […]
Read: "A week with us: Twenty Twenty-Three, Gutenberg, PHP 8.2, and more"
Today is a significant day for us, because after two years of working together, we are saying goodbye to our friend and colleague Justin, who is starting a new chapter of his life. Justin, it’s a sad day for us, but we’re also happy that you get to explore new opportunities. We wanted to say […]
Read: "A week with us: Saying goodbye to Justin"As WordPress 6.0 enters the release candidate stage, we’re putting some finishing touches on it. We are also working on early tickets for WordPress 6.1, and preparing for WordCamp Europe 2022. Our weekly updates Ari This week, my main focus was on Gutenberg. There are a lot of things that we can improve for users […]
Read: "A week with us: WordPress 6.0 RC1"
Our team continues to work on WordPress 6.0. Moreover, we released the web fonts API in Gutenberg, did a lot of work in automated tests, as well as internal Yoast projects. Also, after a lot of deliberation, we decided to make these blog posts bi-weekly. This will allow us to post more substantial updates, and […]
Read: "A week with us: WordPress 6.0, web fonts API, and internal projects"
This week, the WordPress core team at Yoast worked on performance improvements, Gutenberg enhancements, end-to-end tests, and the upcoming WordPress 5.9.1 minor release, among other things. We also started looking into some early tickets for WordPress 6.0, and we are preparing for another Yoast contributor day on February 4. Read on for more details! Our […]
Read: "A week with us: Preparing for WordPress 5.9.1 and Yoast contributor day"
During what might have seemed like another quiet summer week for the WordPress project in general, our team continued working on some long-requested projects. That included: safe plugin/theme updates, plugin dependencies, web fonts API, simplifying theme requirements for the WordPress.org Themes Directory, modernizing WordPress PHP unit test suite, and preparing for PHP 8.1. Read on […]
Read: "A week with us: Safe updates, plugin dependencies, themes, PHP 8.1, and more!"
