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For questions in or about the "How I Work" series, a series of Meta Stack Exchange posts to give you a look at the life and work of Stack Exchange staff. (Please do not use it for questions about your workflow as a volunteer user here; there are probably better tags available.)

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Hi hello 👋 I'm Adam Lear and I'll be your host for this round of the This Is How I Work series. In mid-January I celebrated my 14-year anniversary of joining the company. It's kinda wild to think ...
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I’m Josh. You may know my work from such invisible features as "the site didn't go down during that massive DDoS attack," "we prevented spammers from creating thousands of accounts,&...
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I’m Tom. I currently lead our Talent Acquisition/Recruitment efforts primarily within Product, Design, Engineering, and Community, and over the last year or so I’ve started learning how to transition ...
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I’m currently a Principal Strategic Product Designer here at Stack Overflow. If that sounds like a bit of a mouthful, it’s mostly because I’ve been with the company for five years now — long enough ...
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I’m Ash Zade, a Staff Product Manager, and I have been at Stack for a little over three years, but I have been a Stack user for over a decade. I started my career at Stack on the SaaS side as a ...
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Intro Hi, I'm Connell. You may remember me from such experiments as The New Comments UI, The New Homepage, and ironically most favourably, The Experiment Opt-Out Switch. I've been a Senior Software ...
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Introduction Hi! I’m the director of engineering, public platform at Stack. I’ve been here for about a year and a half. I currently manage two teams of engineers and our Architecture Guild and ...
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This month marks my third year at Stack Overflow, but my journey to working here began more than a decade ago when I started my career as a high school chemistry teacher. I spent two years teaching ...
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Introduction Hi folks! I'm Emma, and I'm a Staff UX Researcher here at Stack Overflow. Basically, that means I’m a professional people watcher. :) I’ve been at Stack for a little over two years now, ...
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Introducing the “How I Work Series” We’re kicking off a new Meta series to give you a look at the life and work of one of the people who works here. Feedback has indicated that you want to hear more ...
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