Thank you for supporting me during the hard time in the life!

For putting the fee playbook to the test and successfully updating the custom fees!

Thanks a bunch for leading the latest Woo SIRT in my absence! I appreciated being able to rely on your expertise and leadership!

Thanks a lot for helping lead the SIRT and keeping things coordinated throughout

I really appreciate how pro-active you are across small and big things. I notice. Things like taking notes in a call or helping keep conversation on track, fixing NMITs yourself, regularly sharing how you are using AI as a model for your teams, filling in gaps that surface across different things (even when it’s not your responsibility). You exemplify the kind of leader I value, and I appreciate you.

Thanks for always trying your best to unblock engineering teams and address their concerns!

For your pragmatism and positive attitude in dealing with both our organization’s intricacies and my own :sweat_smile: Let the adventure continue!

Really great seeing you close on of our NMITs! Leading by example.

Appreciated our 2h pairing session and your help with WC 10.3 allthethings! :bowing-man:

For steering the implementation of Agentic Commerce. I love the vibe you’ve brought to the work as well as effectively managing the scope of the work.

Diving head-first into PCI compliance this year has been a journey fraught with trauma and frustration, but I’m so glad that I’ve been able to walk this difficult path with you. It’s been great to parterinng with you, and I look forward to teaming up even more on all things PCI going forward!

Thank you for solving the E2E issues in the Jetpack monorepo!

Thank you for being so helpful and responsive in jumping into various aspects of Architecture work right now. The reliability makes my work so much easier.

Great work picking up that PayPal block project. It’s a monster of a project with lots of moving pieces!

Thanks for your quick help updating our AI reply manager code!

Eric – I’ve really enjoyed working with you through the last couple of months of all the changes across Woo. You’ve been a solid Yin to my Yang and Woo is fortunate to have you as a lead in engineering. Beyond that, you’ve given me a great appreciation for how you approach work and get things done!

Kudos for taking on the challenge of leading Payments Engineering, as well as Gamma in the interim, and hitting the ground running. The amount of information you digested in the past few weeks is nothing short of a miracle.

belated but thanks for sitting down with PayOps during our meetup. Your presence in Payments is felt and appreciated already. Thank you!

Impressive work in quickly jumping in, leading, and prioritizing tasks for Gamma as well as Payments Engineering.

Thank you so much for hitting the ground running with humility and curiosity. It’s been great to partner with you on the WooPayments PCI efforts — and looking forward to partnering with you even more in the future :heart:

for always being willing to lend a hand and sharing your deep WP knowledge

for helping accelerate the Tumblr migration

Thank you for handling the dotcom incident and writing a helpful/detailed incident report. I learned a lot from this process.

The rapid progress on the speedrun has been inspiring, great to have you on the team Eric!

Thank you for upgrading 170 WoA sites to PHP 8.1 and helping us make the deadline! We couldn’t have done it without you

Eric, thank you for supporting the WP/Mailchimp plugin initiative. Your expertise has helped orient their eng./product org!

For writing a query and script to figure out how many sites on WP.com were affected by the character encoding bug I’d introduced in Core!

I saw some of the early WP-Admin Access (untangling calypso) tickets that you replied to in Zendesk. You are AWESOME!! :awesome-7691:

for all the after hours help with various asks this week. Thank you so much for your willingness to help and flexibility.

Thanks for all of your hard work wrangling the transition and planning the meetup! Appreciate it 🙂

Thanks for partnering with me on the WPCOM customer interview. Looking forward to more of those!

Thank you for presenting this week’s Dotcom weekly Mobile section Eric! I enjoyed your positive tone and “colour”! 💚🙇

Thanks for always being so generous with your time! You helped me go from blocked+frustrated to unblocked+motivated in 60 min 🙂

For all your work on the Google Domains takeover, seeing you pull all the pieces together, get stuck in yourself and drive things forward has been inspiring. Thank you!

for your leadership, expertise, dedication, sleepless nights, and endless hours devoted to launch the Google Domains Takeover campaign! :tada:

Appreciate the useful summaries for the Domains project in the Slack channel. Gives a sense of direction for the APAC timezone in this fast iteration.

For juggling…god knows how many things on the Google Domains project. Oh, and you’re also division eng lead! For keeping everything moving forward, making a difference every day, and somehow still staying the cool, level-headed and thoughtful friend and colleague. Amazing times we’ve had! Looking forward to working many more years together!

I am super impressed by all the things you do. You are on top of so many things all at once :spinning-plates-many:, and also always have time for me.

For such a quick turnaround to implement this change on 78407. This will make it a lot easier for users and HEs.

This kudos is simply to apologize for destroying the Dotcom Roadmap project board columns, I am SO SORRY – thank you for being so understanding about it!

Thanks for bringing back the Town Halls! It’s so nice to connect as a team, share all the great work happening, and identify even more opportunities for collaboration. Thanks for facilitating!

Thank you for being a great buddy during my dotcom rotation!

Thank you for organizing the return of the Dotcom Town Hall! That was super fun to see all the different shipped and coming-soon projects, and really helps fire up the brain to think of all the ways we can connect our efforts to help improve the product for our customers.

For your gracious, thoughtful and disciplined leadership. It’s super cool to see you take on this role and make such a difference so quickly!

Thank you for your help with my Jetpack questions today. While I’m sure you won’t miss SSPA, I sure will miss working on it with you this year!

This is the first time I’m collaborating with you on some task/project and I’ve enjoyed it. You are a gem. Thank you for all your help with adjusting things related to WordPress 6.1 and also cutting down the list of users to just ~1000. We all appreciate every bit of it! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! :face_holding_back_tears: :you: :rock:

thanks for doing the team session (dev and designers) and for working to improve our collaboration and processes.

For your tireless and detailed work on all the WPCOM things for the CircleCI SIRT in September.

For establishing the WP.com planning process and conducting it out in the open.

Thanks for the onboarding week, really appreciate you spending your time getting me up to speed with so much!

Thank you for auditing the calypso-e2e-tests repo for KitKat while our more experienced members were out.

Thanks for being such a hands-on leader, and always being willing to submit good bug reports, and Do The Right Thing to work together!

Thanks for the fast hands on helping with that Lazy Images patch!

Thanks for all your testing of the new help center!

Thanks for all your help unblocking +limitedatomicp2 in the past two weeks! It let us fix (almost) all plan checks in Jetpack’s react client this sprint.

Huge kudos for always being willing to get your hands dirty in the arcane and messy corners of our codebases, and get stuff done.

Thanks for all of your help with the Microsoft SSPA. Getting this across the finish line is a feat; I’m grateful that it’s made easier by all of your valuable contributions. It’s such a pleasure working with you!

For your assistance in wrangling all VIP-Jetpack things. It is MUCH appreciated :heart: !

Thank you for implementing host tags on Zendesk tickets!

Thank you for making collaboration between divisions easier, for answering my questions, providing advice, links and examples.

Thanks for your guidance, always being willing to help with anything and also all the TIL’s I’ve gotten from you over the years :simple_smile:

for all the time and help in finding a suitable fix to the NewFold URL desync and provisioning race condition on short notice

thanks for your help today with extracting data from the Jetpack Site Profile tool. This is going to save us a lot of time. :slightly_smiling_face:

for all the help and guidance over the past couple of months

For always looking out for all of the Jetpack developers.

:brain-pulse:

Thanks for proactively handling Facebook App re-review request!

Thank you for all of your time answering my many, many questions while getting up and running with JPPHP. You have a special talent for concise answers!

Thank you _so_ much for being such a diligent note-taker! It’s invaluable — it helps me focus during the meeting, plus then we have an organized reference afterward for what was said/what needs to happen.

Looker Dashboards are so cool! Thanks for all the effort on putting them together!

For being a Looker wizard!

For moving the ACJ on a user-less world discussion forward! Thanks for looking into this, digesting all input and finally deliberating on a way to go. It’s nice to see complex discussions not falling into a limbo of endless possibilities :slightly_smiling_face:

for giving a super fast and detailed answer on how the ACJ metrics are calculated. Also for all the other times you were there to look into data and help figure things out. thanks!

many thanks for stepping into a new role and owning it this year. You have grown by leaps and bounds and I am excited for the future and getting to work together more.

Thank you for your guidance and support, always giving good advice.

Thank you Eric, for giving me such seasoned pointers these past months, I’m learning a lot 🙂

Thanks so much for staying on late to help resolve that critical error!

Thanks for taking a few minutes to unblock what I’ve been pondering on for hours :slightly_smiling_face:

Thanks for jumping in to help me research Jetpack data in the past few weeks. Really appreciated!

A long overdue thank you for all the work you put into getting Akismet certified for our MSFT contract. Many thanks!

For everything you do for the division, including working with all of us engineering leads as well as your data initiatives

Thank you so much for your diligence and hard work coordinating and communicating with us on VIP to help us solve and deliver a fix for our customers for the Facebook oEmbed changes. I love a8c cross-unit stuff.

you are always a fountain of information and a really nice evening presence in every meeting. I really value and look forward to your feedback whenever we work together!

Thank you for adding failed creds update attempts to the Rewind Debugger! It makes troubleshooting SO MUCH easier.

For always being willing to help, and going the extra mile, even on a Friday night when everyone else is gone for the weekend.

Thank you for writing the field guide on Jetpack Site Profiles Query Builder. It was exactly what I needed today.

Thanks for being such an awesome resource for… well, darn near everything! I especially enjoy your recent work to explain how and where to find answers to all our data-related questions :slightly_smiling_face:

thank you for all your hard work on a trial prompt for the Security Research Engineer role! It’s been the fastest delivery of a trial project ever!

for being a patient and good partner, and for having hella smart ideas!

Thanks for being a amazing partner and Jetpack wizard :partywizard:

For helping me work through my paranoia that I was about to break Jetpack.com. Much appreciated!

for all your leadership and mentorship, and your efforts to upgrade our engineering capabilities on Infinity and across the Jetpack Division.

You are awesome. Thanks for doing so much to keep everything on track during this exciting and challenging time for Jetpack.

HUGE thank you for such fast action on fixing the Twitch.tv shortcode that Twitch broke today!

brevity.

Really appreciate your continued interest and involvement in all aspects of Jetpack development. Also thanks for hopping on zoom and talking through the 8.6 sync cron issue.

for being excellent at your job, excellent at MY job, and being an excellent human being. Much respect.

for working with Pressable on their new Jetpack premium activation process, and for being such an effective “heat shield” for the team and division!

Thanks for helping identify third-party cookie issues with Jetpack, for walking me through the code base, and for explaining everything so well!

Thanks for always jumping in and fixing when I report random data-related problems!

Thanks for solo fire fighting for some time now to allow us to focus on Backups.

Thanks for the help you’re giving me on the Endurance project!

Thanks for the quick and very relevant tip on passwordless users late on a Wednesday night!

Thank you for your quick work finding and changing mention of the number of Premium themes on pages and JITMs 🙂

Thank you for always being on top of things and specifically for fixing this Site Profiler bug that was giving me a headache! 🙂

For all your work with the EIG reporting! Thanks a ton for making sure everything was accurate and delivered on time!

For all your timely help on wrangling the EIG data reporting to help ensure we have accurate numbers!

Thanks for blogging about “Install Unison 2.48.4 on Mac OS X with Homebrew” – it was really helpful in setting up my new computer.

Thanks for all your hard work in getting JP partner data into Looker and for cleaning up our reporting. Much appreciated 🙂

thanks for being such a good friend and strong automattician!

For helping with the Facebook and LinkedIn issues this week

Awesome job yesterday shockin and rockin da hizza with the FB issue BOOYAAAA!

Thank you for your diligence, hard work and communication through the Great Facebook Publicize Outage of Q4 2019.

Thanks for the fast work and clear communication on the FB publicize issue yesterday. Thanks to you what could have been a big thing was a tiny thing.

Thank you for spearheading the issues with Facebook and keeping us all updated on its progress. The smoothest outage ever!

For leaving the Jetpack Start API with such massive test coverage!

for delivering corrective feedback to another automattician in a friendly and caring tone

Enabling success for hosting partners and Pressable customer happiness team!

For all the help adding the new prop to Tracks, pointing to the right places, and reviewing the patch. Tanooki!

Thanks for working with Bluehost’s dev team to figure out the best solution for them and us!

Great job at Cloudfest!

for all the things so far and being an awesome team lead!

For always being really well prepared for our 1:1s.

Thanks for reviewing my patches and being a great team lead while I go through all this medical crap.

Thanks for being such a good team lead!

For hosting the Jetpack Townhall!

Thanks for all the help with everything!

Cool to see you handling things like a boss on Partnerships!

for being an exemplary colleague. An absolute joy to work with & for delivering a tremendous amount of awesome work.

Thank you for being so supportive and caring during my interview and coding test review. Couldn’t have asked for anyone better!

For all the times you help me with the Jetpack Partners stuff! Thank you so much!

Nice job on the Akismet stats WP-CLI method.

you have been rocking it all month long cranking out releases to improve partner experiences! Thank you!

Thanks for helping me with my script…again. 🙂

for managing 50 things at once and keep Bluehost very happy at the same time

for helping me out with a silly coupon thing in my time of need!

for the help during my trial & helping me tick off a small but significant item on my bucket list to celebrate becoming an a11n!

Thanks for the help and pair programming!

For being an all around cool guy and walking me through sandbox interaction, explaining how a few things fit together. Hugely helpful!

Thanks for taking the time to explain to me how JP Sync worked!

for helping me debug that JetPack lazy image loading issue quickly & swiftly :thumbsup::skin-tone-4: 😉

For fixing so many billing issues for us. I don’t know how we’d cope without you! Thank you.

For your swift help in ensuring the language of the Lazy load images setting is consistent in all the things!

Great work on Jetpack Search!

Thanks for being instrumental in getting TWO headline features over the line for Jetpack 5.8!

Thank you for revamping the API docs for Jetpack. This will help out a ton for new partners.

EMoney you totally rocked your support rotation thanks for being so thoughtful in your replies to our users.

Thanks for spending some time with JPOP Happy and writing a thorough support week recap!

for getting the Skyword shortcode working on the Jetpack blog, a winner is you!

Thanks for kicking butt on the DreamPress partnership. I love seeing the emails going out promoting this deal, and knowing that you’re making it all happen behind the scenes.

Thanks for saving that Field Guide article from post purgatory!

Yo! Thanks for all your screenshare help with development issues, on the drop of a dime!

for saving my life when I get tangled in svn / sandbox quandaries.

Thanks for updating the Site Profiler and continuous to monitor and improve JPS for our partners. Your attitude and sense of responsibility are making these projects super successful.

for sharing all of the wisdom you acquired when building JPPHP and specially for SSO-A8C login plugin (jpphp-a8c-login.php ) !

thank you for sacrificing your personal GM time to fix a JPO issue

You are awesome, Happy Birthday 🙂

Thanks for a hands-on tutorial on adding information to jetpack site profiles!

Thanks for finding the Bluehost/JPO bug and generally being awesome and totally on top of things.

Thank you for writing up that instructive tutorial on reconnecting very broken Jetpacks.

Thanks so much for your help with the cross domain tracking pixel for Pressable!

for work on the Net Neutrality plugin & for prompt bug fixing!

thanks so much for your help with net neutrality! Plugins are great!

for kicking butt and taking names

For being around when you’re officially not. Thanks for helping me navigate the code!

Thank you for all your hard work on DreamPress so far! It’s fantastic having you on board.

For being speedy and patient with all my questions and demands, and for getting all the things straightened out.

because it’s the cool thing to do

Great job with DreamPress integration! It’s a huge help for us. Thank you so much.

Thanks for all your hard work getting things in tip top shape for JPOP partnerships!

Thanks for being awesome and helping us out with the DreamPress plans launch!

Nice job the JPPHP Jetpack Plans rollout!

You have without a doubt been our Jetpack savior SO MANY TIMES for Automated Transfer. I can’t thank you enough, man. I’m so glad I get to work with you.

For answering my pings/questions at all hours of the day and being right on top of the Pressable+Jetpack integration threads!

Thanks for all your hard work lately, I am thankful to be working with you 🙂

Thanks for working on getting this AT’d site fixed – was a Jetpack connection mess!

Thanks for your work on SSO in AT for A12s! Awesome job!

thank you for joining us in amsterdam and for making the work on the login API easier!

For reporting a plans page bug at 17:44 and having a PR ready by 18:10.

Thanks for you work on Publicize issues. Users (and HEs) love you! 🙂

For all the assists you’ve been giving me lately!

Thanks for helping push through the last testing steps of Jetpack WP REST API authentication, your matrix of test sites was an invaluable help!

Thanks for showing me the magic of Digital Ocean / Server Pilot, and for setting me up with not one, but EIGHT wordpress instances.

Thanks yet again for killing it with Jetpack testing AND patching! Always willing to go the extra mile to help, and I love ya for it

for running with the feature rollout endpoint

Thanks for all your work on the IDC stuff, and for being patient and available for help with my testing runs. Much appreciated!

for always being the ‘man of hustle’ when it counts

For being available on the drop of a dime – helping w/ everything from coding to branch complications in github

Thanks for taking point on the IDC mini meetup. Your clear thinking and organizational skills are always an inspiration for me.

Go team savory!!! Fixing IDC

Thanks for being so quick on that OOM fix! Also for your extra effort in helping test and patch up 4.3 ❤

for his diligent testing

For hustling to fix an urgent bug in the API affecting our firehose consumers and seeing it through.

Thanks for stepping up in such a big way this week in supporting Jetpack 4.2

Thank you for being so quick to jump in and help out with support-raised issues.

For the amazing help with testing and debugging SSO, thanks a bunch!

For your work on the SSO overhaul. It’s looking so much better, and your thoughtfulness and thoroughness has found a bunch of corner-cases that make it much more complete.

Thanks for your cross-team help with Jetpack Connect translations and debugging.

You’re always my go-to person to help me in a pinch!

Thanks for checking in on me and being there to listen.

Excellent work on localization for the invite acceptance flow!

Thanks for improving the email change verification emails! You’re the fastest!

for reviving the Week in Core posts. 🙂

Thanks for being responsive with fixes and helpful with your feedback and thoughtful in your opinions.

Really great work on wrangling/milestoning/managing the People Management project.

Thanks for being an awesome teammate!

Muchos kudos on your work as a project/squad lead thus far. Doing a great job.

Thank you for the quick and thorough help with the Calypso password change bug!

Thanks for all the work on the toolbar, it’s very important to us so I really appreciate the time and attention you gave it 🙂

I so much appreciate your work on the super admin toolbar and that you’re making sure HEs have good UX for their tools! ❤