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.
This week, the team continued preparing for the final WordPress 5.8 release on July 20th. In addition, the team started looking into some early tasks for WordPress 5.9, worked on theme review tools, and spent some time on education. Curious to learn more? Keep reading! Our weekly team updates Ari WordPress Core A few days […]
Read: "A week with us: Learning, teaching, and contributing"
On Tuesday, June 9th (or Wednesday June 10th, depending where you are in the world) WordPress 5.8 Beta 1 was released. Many members of the team contributed to take this version of WordPress past this first milestone. After getting a small break thanks to WordCamp Europe, we are now switching our focus to finding bugs, […]
Read: "A week with us: WordPress 5.8 Beta 1 is here and more"
This week, our WordPress core team at Yoast worked on improving the code quality of WordPress and Gutenberg, as well as performance, theme tools, documentation, and design, among other things. Like we do every week, we would like to give you an update on what everyone one of us has been working on. Read on […]
Read: "A week with us: Working on WordPress & Gutenberg"
Last week, Francesca wrote about two Yoasters sharing their experience of being a part of the WordPress 5.7 release squad. She interviewed Tim Hengeveld as the Design focus lead and me, Sergey Biryukov, as the Core tech lead. This week, I’d like to dive into the topic of contributing and answer some common questions from […]
Read: "A week with us: how to start contributing to Core and a team update"
