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Kumano Kodo

01.08.2019 by kristarella // Leave a Comment

Last July my team went to Japan. On our main activity day we went for a hike on a portion of the Kumano Kodo trail. It was quite the challenge for me: completely useless at walking long distances, especially up hills. Despite that it was scenic, interesting, and satisfying. Beauty Wildlife Oddities Signs and writing […]

Categories // Travel Tags // Automattic, Japan, meetup

Shirahama, Japan

07.05.2018 by kristarella // 1 Comment

My current team at work is named Patronus and we have just spent a week in Shirahama, Japan. Shirahama is a coastal town in the Wakayama Prefecture, South of Osaka. For the first few days it was pretty quiet, it felt like we had the place to ourselves. It got a little busier over the […]

Categories // Travel Tags // Automattic, Japan, Patrons team, team meetup

Automattic Grand Meetup 2016

09.29.2016 by kristarella // Leave a Comment

The GM Each year (nearly) everyone at Automattic gets together for the Grand Meetup (GM). The GM is essentially a company retreat. We work, we train, we develop, we discuss, we play, we eat, we drink… it’s an amazing time of getting to know each other better and working and planning towards better products and better […]

Categories // Photos, Travel, WordPress Tags // Automattic, Canada, Grand Meetup, photos, Whistler

Kristen is an Automattician!

05.30.2015 by kristarella // 5 Comments

This month I officially joined the ranks of Automattic! For those in the know, I am a Happiness Engineer on the Store team. For everyone else, I do support for WordPress.com, mainly for Business plan customers. I love my new job. Helping people with their websites is what made my blog popular, it’s how my […]

Categories // My life & thoughts, WordPress Tags // Automattic

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