New chapter — bye Azimo, hello Papaya Global — After almost eight years at Azimo, I’m starting a new chapter in my career. I’ve recently joined Papaya Global through the acquisition process (more about it here). I’m honored to join Papaya’s Engineering Leadership team as one of the Directors of Engineering. …

How we improved SDLC of web apps at Azimo — This is the first in a series of blog posts in which we outline our Quality Assurance and software development processes for frontend engineering at Azimo. The second blog post is already published here. Quality Assurance and Software Delivery Processes in Frontend Engineering pt.2 How we improved SDLC of web apps at Azimowww.baixiangren.com There is a big difference between Quality Control and Quality Assurance. QC focuses mainly on fulfilling…

What I learned after 7 years at Azimo — This week, I’m celebrating my 7th anniversary at Azimo (Aziversary, as we call it :) ). Seven years 3–4x more than a typical software engineer spends at a company. It has been a ride with ups and downs, celebrations, and serious signs of burnout. There were exciting days and days…

Our path to Renovate — Building software is like building LEGO bricks. Most tech solutions are the compositions of open source libraries, public APIs, or 3rd party libraries that we can plug directly into our code. This modularity is one of the biggest growth drivers in the world of technology. The company can focus on…

The Internet, Fintech, Building Tech, and Climate — This year I had a chance to visit Lisbon for Web Summit 2021 - one of the biggest tech conferences across the globe. Here I’m outlining the most prominent themes from this year’s edition — The Internet, Fintech & Crypto, Building Technology, Climate. The Internet Where is the Internet going? Ben Evans (if you don’t know who…

The evolution of apps QA at Azimo — This is the third in a series of blog posts in which we outline our multiple years’ experience with our Android app testing at Azimo. Most of the principles, goals, and achievements also apply to our iOS app. Table of content The evolution of apps QA, first days, and unit…

The evolution of apps QA at Azimo — This is the second in a series of blog posts in which we outline our multiple years’ experience with our Android app testing at Azimo. Most of the principles, goals, and achievements also apply to our iOS app. Table of content The evolution of apps QA, first days, and unit…

Our journey, goals, and motivations — This is the first in a series of blog posts in which we outline our multiple years’ experience with our Android app testing at Azimo. Most of the principles, goals, and achievements also apply to our iOS app. Table of content (This post) — The evolution of apps Quality Assurance, first days, and…

It’s happening! Probably the craziest year in my entire life is slowly going to the end. So here I am, spending its last hours to sum it up, just like I did in 2019, 2018, 2017. This is the last paragraph from my 2019-in-review: “ So this was my 2019…