Jenny Wong

Jenny joined the team in June 2014. Their love for development goes beyond the screen & they is an advocate of both the PHP and WordPress communities. Often, they can be found evangelizing open source communities, organising events and occasionally, speaking. Their days are varied: From supporting our engineers, solving issues with event sites & supporting organisers, to passionately cheering people on to contribute back to their communities. They loves cooking up elaborate ideas to help improve participation experiences in open source projects. When away from the laptop, they are usually binge watching Formula 1 & anime, doing house renovations or making a mess whilst cooking.

Articles

  • Being a new parent in WordPress
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    Being a new parent in WordPress

    Becoming a parent is one of the biggest adventures in life – but how do you balance parenthood with working in WordPress? New mum, WordPress community veteran, and HM Associate Director of Engineering Jenny Wong shares how she’s found ways to juggle both, and reveals her top tips and pitfalls for other parents facing the…

  • Developers: here’s how to build your writing skills

    Developers: here’s how to build your writing skills

    It’s a common trope that writing is an under-loved aspect of a developer’s role, but it doesn’t have to be this way! With a little skill building and some top resources at your fingertips, you’ll be penning prose like a pro in no time. The topic of writing has come up frequently during one-to-ones within…

  • BackUpWordPress 3.0 released!

    Over the last few months we’ve been working hard to release 3.0 and we’re now delighted to share with everyone the latest iteration of BackUpWordPress, we think it’s the best yet! We learnt a lot from the release of 2.0, and became aware things we could have done a lot better (no more modals!), so…

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