Upeka Bee @upekabee Twitter profile

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Upeka Bee

9 months

Good morning ☀️ @timkral and I are excited to officially launch on @ycombinator today! Share this with any founders or SMB owners you know who does compliance and HR back-office tasks at your company and needs help! Prices start at $99/month.

Launch YC: ✅ DianaHR - Give us your people ops and take back your time | Y Combinator

Put your company's people ops on autopilot and save 10+ hours a week

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Upeka Bee

@upekabee

7 months

Grateful for this guy 🥰

Dilan Dane - e/❤️

@dilan

7 months

Just had one of the proudest moments of my life: watching my wife pitch at @ycombinator demo day. 💕 @upekabee

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@upekabee

7 months

Yesterday felt like graduation day. @ycombinator has made the energy in the Dogpatch ⚡️ AND thrilled to learn that most of our batch mates are staying in SF!

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Upeka Bee

@upekabee

4 years

My quest to project Undeniable Competence - a deep dive into Uptalk, my voice, body language and posture 🌤

My quest to project Undeniable Competence

A couple of months ago, I asked Kent Beck to give me one piece of feedback about my leadership style. Kent is a colleague from Gusto and…

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Upeka Bee

@upekabee

7 months

Today is officially the last day of YC and having all the feels. Grateful for this experience 💓

Dilan Dane - e/❤️

@dilan

7 months

YC Then & Now ⏳ I did @ycombinator in the summer of 08, in Boston, at @paulg 's house. My wife @upekabee is wrapping up YC this week, 16 years later, in San Francisco, led by @garrytan . Watching her go through this, it’s been remarkable to see just how much YC has evolved! 🧵

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Upeka Bee

@upekabee

3 years

It’s been a rough year for my mental health, trapped in our SF shoebox. I’m sooo happy to be able to go back into the @GustoHQ office 😌

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Upeka Bee

@upekabee

6 months

We moved into a slightly bigger office for @getdianahr and I’m unreasonably excited about this little window ledge that can fit a plant 🪴

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Upeka Bee

@upekabee

3 years

Do you manage StaffPlus engineers? This post collects my personal best practices for empowering StaffPlus engineers—which really just means creating the right framework for them to flourish… and then getting out of their way.

The Care and Feeding of StaffPlus Engineers

Do you manage StaffPlus software engineers? This post collects and explains my personal best practices for empowering them —

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Upeka Bee

@upekabee

5 years

Two years of @GustoHQ . Going to spend the weekend reading these notes and crying.

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Upeka Bee

@upekabee

2 years

The @GustoHQ team wrote a profile on me, and it was fun to share about my work and how I think about building software - complete with a nod to my (thrift) shopping problem. I am grateful to have meaningful work and to work with some of the best! 🐝

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@upekabee

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Upeka Bee

@upekabee

6 years

That time I deleted more than 10,000 lines of code. Refactoring all the things. #GustoEng

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Upeka Bee

@upekabee

3 years

My first half ❤️‍🔥

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Upeka Bee

@upekabee

7 years

I wrote about “Continuing Our Commitment to Diversity in Engineering” @GustoHQ 🎈

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Upeka Bee

@upekabee

6 years

“Our voluntary attrition rate for women engineers since 2016 is still zero.” I’m so proud of @GustoHQ ’s progress over the last 6 months. 🍉

Edward Kim

@edawerd

6 years

6 months ago, we set ambitious diversity goals for ourselves at @GustoHQ and promised to follow up on how we did. I'm proud to announce that we exceeded our goals, and came up with a more scalable way of building diverse and inclusive engineering teams!

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Upeka Bee

@upekabee

1 year

After 6.5 years, this week is my last at @GustoHQ . It’s been a wild adventure, and I am grateful to all the humans of Gusto who made this my favorite job so far. Yes that’s an Upeka Pokémon card that one of my reports made. I’ll be rooting for Gusto from the sidelines - they

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Upeka Bee

@upekabee

8 years

Another afternoon mentoring for @nodeschoolsf So many awesome peeps! ✨

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Upeka Bee

@upekabee

7 years

A year of @GustoHQ | 🥇

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Upeka Bee

@upekabee

5 months

I’ll be presenting at the YC Female Founders conference in August. Come by! 🧡

Y Combinator

@ycombinator

5 months

We’re bringing the Female Founders Conference back in person! If you are an engineer or scientist and you’re thinking about starting a startup, we hope hearing stories from women founders will inspire you to take the leap yourself. 🟧

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Upeka Bee

@upekabee

6 years

As part of our diversity and belonging efforts, @GustoHQ organized its first Women In Engineering Roundtable dinner, which I moderated. The topic was ‘Can I have a big impact without becoming an engineering manager?’ #womenintech #womenwhocode

Can I have a big impact without becoming an engineering manager?

Gusto Women In Engineering Roundtable Dinners

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Upeka Bee

@upekabee

9 years

Early engineer @yespathSF . Prev @salesforce for 7 years. @carnegiemellon , @uolondon alum. And #ILookLikeAnEngineer 🚀 http://t.co/TPT48GiSWE

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Upeka Bee

@upekabee

5 years

The last few weeks have been some of the most fulfilling of my ~15 yr career. Incredibly proud of @GustoHQ and how folks have rallied in this time. ❤️

Tomer London

@tomerlondon

5 years

In the past 3 weeks, we at @gustohq have been entirely focused on helping small businesses survive the crisis, shipping 10+ COVID-related features like tax deferral and credit programs, PPP, and a dedicated resource hub. This is just the start. (1/5)

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Upeka Bee

@upekabee

3 years

It's an honor to be a part of @IncrementMag 's latest issue on Planning! Pursuing product-market fit for new products is a challenge (and thrill!) that my teams work on at @GustoHQ and I'm excited to share learnings on this.

Increment

@IncrementMag

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. @upekabee shares strategies for planning development before you have product-market fit. “Once you embrace the uncertainty,” she writes, “working on finding product-market fit isn’t just a challenge, but a thrill.”

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Upeka Bee

@upekabee

3 years

It’s been a wild ride and this is a thrilling milestone for us 🌈 Gusto Secures A $10 Billion Valuation Tailwind As Its HR Software Sails Toward IPO

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Upeka Bee

@upekabee

7 months

The battle for the office chair rages on.

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Upeka Bee

@upekabee

6 years

If you're interested in building a strong engineering culture, join us on Wed, Nov 28th as we host an evening of roundtable discussions led by eng managers from leading companies and a fireside chat with @GustoHQ 's CTO, @edawerd . Hosted by @platohq ! 🍉🍍

"Scaling Your Engineering Culture" (SF meetup)

Topic: Scaling Your Engineering CultureWed, Nov 28th • 6 to 8:30 pm • 525 20th St, San Francisco Speakers Fireside chat with Gusto CTO (Eddie Kim) Panel with Salesforce Director of Engineering (Bruno...

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Upeka Bee

@upekabee

4 years

Join me and my all-female Eng Management group as we take our monthly roundtable to @joinClubhouse ! 🌈 Tonight's topic is Hiring & Retaining Engineers remotely~

Padmïni

@ppyapali

4 years

Co-hosting a @joinClubhouse event tonight at 5PM PST on hiring & retaining engineers remotely. My cohosts are all female eng leaders from Gusto, Uber, Samsara, Disney, Square & others. Join us! Fri, 2/12, 5p PST:

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Upeka Bee

@upekabee

4 years

Celebrated 3 yrs of @GustoHQ by staring at these trees, for a while. 🌿

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Upeka Bee

@upekabee

7 years

These @GustoHQ illustrations tho 😍

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Upeka Bee

@upekabee

6 years

I've been helping to organize this event @GustoHQ and @platohq ! It's called "Scaling Your Engineering Culture" #GustoEng

"Scaling Your Engineering Culture" (SF meetup)

Topic: Scaling Your Engineering CultureWed, Nov 28th • 6 to 8:30 pm • 525 20th St, San Francisco Speakers Fireside chat with Gusto CTO (Eddie Kim) Panel with Salesforce Director of Engineering (Bruno...

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Upeka Bee

@upekabee

10 years

“Sometimes it is the people no one can imagine anything of who do the things no one can imagine.” ― Alan #Turing

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Upeka Bee

@upekabee

6 years

So #JSandChill right now, watching @cramforce ’s excellent talk, ‘Designing very large JavaScript applications’

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Upeka Bee

@upekabee

5 years

Day 12 of quarantine: Thinking about getting a 🐈.

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@upekabee

5 months

What do think this ad means? What happened to the first husband? 🤔

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Upeka Bee

@upekabee

5 years

Going from IC to Engineering Management: An exercise in realizing you like people way more than you thought you did. 🌈

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Upeka Bee

@upekabee

1 year

These days the US tends to struggle with problems of abundance. And if you were born here it can be hard to know what a dream this place is in comparison to the realities of some of the poorest countries in the world. It’s hard to talk about rights when the economics just aren’t

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Upeka Bee

@upekabee

6 years

A short eulogy for my father ❣️

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Upeka Bee

@upekabee

7 years

My all-⭐️ all-female-eng Hackathon team cranking over two days #womenwhocode @GustoHQ

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Upeka Bee

@upekabee

4 years

There are few women in eng and fewer in eng management. The @EMDinnerClub is an all-female group and we've been meeting for a few years to learn on various topics. Last night we hosted on @joinClubhouse for the 1st time and had 40+ folks nerding out with us for 90 mins! 🔥

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Upeka Bee

@upekabee

3 years

We've been working with Symmetry since we had 3 employees! As payroll experts, this is so wildly exciting for us! ⚡️

Edward Kim

@edawerd

3 years

Very excited for @GustoHQ to be joining forces with @SymmetrySftware , a company that I've always admired and respected! We've worked with Symmetry from the very beginning and I'm excited for what we can do for their customers by working together!

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@upekabee

6 years

First day back at work and someone left this on my desk. What does it mean... 🤔

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@upekabee

4 years

We all took the wrong day off

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@upekabee

4 years

Excited to be speaking at our second Engage with @GustoHQ series! A panel of folks across Engineering, Product, Design and Data Science talking about how we build software with a purpose to help small businesses! 👷🏽‍♀️👷🏽‍♂️🔧

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Upeka Bee

@upekabee

4 years

I miss Shyp multiple times a week.

Cyan Banister

@cyantist

4 years

You know what business needs to be rebooted? Shyp.

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Upeka Bee

@upekabee

7 months

Excited to see @getdianahr on this list 💚

Yana Welinder

@yanatweets

7 months

Loved watching YC Alumni Demo Day 🧡 Almost 70% of this batch are AI companies 🤯 Here’s my 9 favorite pitches: @toinfinityai (with an AI-generated DD pitch!!) by @lina_colucci , Sidney Primas, and Andrew Weitz. Infinity is a script-to-movie foundation model. @tryparadigm by

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Upeka Bee

@upekabee

7 years

A Day in the Life of a @GustoHQ Engineer

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@upekabee

4 years

What genius did this

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Upeka Bee

@upekabee

5 years

I’m so EXCITED to start seeing @kamilah everyday at work!!! HAI FRIEND! 😻 #GustoEng

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Upeka Bee

@upekabee

4 years

Happy Fang-tastic Halloween 🦇

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Upeka Bee

@upekabee

4 years

My sister got the vaccine today. Cant wait! 🌼

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Upeka Bee

@upekabee

3 years

Recently discovered this full page interview of my dad in a Sri Lankan newspaper from 2008. I miss him, my hero. 💛

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Upeka Bee

@upekabee

3 years

Bought a cute new mask, just in time to not need it 😁

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Upeka Bee

@upekabee

2 years

Do you manage StaffPlus engineers, or aspire to do so? Here are my best practices for empowering them — but since I’m also your local crazy plant lady, I’ll call it… The Care and Feeding of StaffPlus Engineers 🌱😁

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Upeka Bee

@upekabee

7 years

Our team rolled out a massive #refactor at @GustoHQ this week. Blog posts coming soon! #GustoEng

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@upekabee

7 years

The @GustoHQ Payroll #womenInEngineering

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Upeka Bee

@upekabee

2 years

Gusto does not use SVB and uses a redundant system to prevent outages

Gusto

@GustoHQ

2 years

Gusto does not use Silicon Valley Bank to fund customer payroll services and operations. Therefore, Silicon Valley Bank's current situation does not affect our ability to provide payroll services to you. (1 of 2)

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Upeka Bee

@upekabee

6 years

Thanks to @aliciatweet who got me on this book. It’s changing my life.

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@upekabee

4 years

"To all the little girls watching...never doubt that you are valuable and powerful & deserving of every chance & opportunity in the world."

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@upekabee

4 years

😭🌈🌺😍

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@upekabee

3 years

Welcome @ArdiusTech ! Gusto’s first acquisition 🌈

Tomer London

@tomerlondon

3 years

Every year, millions of businesses and their accountants miss out on a $50 billion opportunity. It's time to democratize access to tax credits. Welcome @ArdiusTech to @GustoHQ 🚀

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@upekabee

7 years

When your unit test passes on the first try...

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Upeka Bee

@upekabee

4 years

yaaaaay 💚

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Upeka Bee

@upekabee

5 years

Good morning! Excited for Gusto’s announcements this morning: new brand reveal and new funding and valuation. 💸 “Building ⁦ @GustoHQ ⁩’s Business To Serve Small Businesses” by @joshuareeves

BUILDING GUSTO’S BUSINESS TO SERVE SMALL BUSINESSES

Gusto is scaling and raises Series D

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Upeka Bee

@upekabee

6 years

The @GustoHQ team at #BuildingUpwards hosted by @lyfteng #GustoEng @kryptonatalie @NoaElad

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@upekabee

6 years

It's been a thrill and an honor to work closely and watch @NoaElad grow at #GustoEng . I really enjoyed reading about her foray into management and back!

I Didn’t Want to Be a Manager Anymore — and the World Didn’t End

In 2017, I became an engineering manager at Gusto. One year and many learnings later, I left the role.

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@upekabee

3 years

#NewProfilePic

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@upekabee

7 years

Current Status. 👩🏽‍💻

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Upeka Bee

@upekabee

8 years

Great advice about navigating tech as a women. I hope all #menintech , especially managers will read too. #womenintech #womenintechbook

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Upeka Bee

@upekabee

1 year

Congratulations to @amittm and the @ProofOfPlay team. It’s been so incredible to watch them grow in the last couple of years 🏴‍☠️

Proof of Play

@ProofOfPlay

1 year

Introducing Proof of Play, an onchain game studio & technology company. We are delighted to announce our $33m seed round led by @a16z and Greenoaks, with participation from incredible angels & founders incl. @naval @balajis @justinkan @jtwald @immad @nikil @gabusch & many more.

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3 years

Herding cats OR Lessons in Eng Leadership ?

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@upekabee

7 years

You know it’s going to be good when it’s about the POWERPUFF GIRLS. Aka tech talks by @jackdanger at @GustoHQ

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@upekabee

4 years

I villl not be stopped 🦇

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@realDonaldTrump

4 years

STOP THE COUNT!

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@upekabee

7 years

My #hackathon team won @joshuareeves Team Collaboration Prize! 🏆 CC: @seemaisms @NoaElad @willdjthrill @jobberlyn

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@upekabee

6 years

Gusto’s new Summer Pay Day Illustration is ⭐️ by ⁦ @camellianeri ⁩ ⁦ @GustoHQ ⁩

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@upekabee

4 years

Be (Financially) Well, ❤️ @GustoHQ

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@upekabee

6 years

A memory leak almost took down all of @GustoHQ ’s async workers. Brittney Johnson shows us how we fixed it. #GustoEng

Debugging Sidekiq Poison Pills

Like many web applications out there, Gusto uses asynchronous jobs to process various sets of information. Sidekiq is one such background…

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Upeka Bee

@upekabee

7 years

Enjoyed speaking w/ @BuzzFeed and @stephaniemlee about my 🥚 freezing experience. Exciting to hear that more companies are offering this. 🙌🏽

Stephanie M. Lee

@stephaniemlee

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NEW: Egg-freezing and IVF used to be taboo, but more and more women are pushing tech companies to cover fertility

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@upekabee

3 years

Gusto is now offering pieces of its service to other companies via API | TechCrunch ✨

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@upekabee

6 years

🍉 Staying Ambitious on Diversity: New Goals for Gusto Engineering by @edawerd and @GustoHQ

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@upekabee

4 years

Hello World.

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@upekabee

4 years

Madam Vice President 🌹

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@upekabee

3 years

I luuuurve @IncrementMag and honored to be part of the next Issue (and final, in it’s current form) - Issue 19. 💫

Sid Orlando

@ohreallysid

3 years

HELLO FRIENDS! Big news: @incrementmag issue 18—our penultimate* issue––is out today. It’s about all things mobile. I have so much to tell you about it, and, of course, you can read it at . *More on that down-thread, come along for the read! 😎 (1/9)

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@upekabee

3 years

And this @GustoHQ half marathon crew was the BEST 😍

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@upekabee

9 years

Deployed our first #reactjs app to prod last night ! ☺️💪🏾✨💯

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@upekabee

7 years

Coming up on 11 years coding professionally now, and I still ❤️ it! The non-coding parts of my job not so much. Aka, meetings 😱

Saron

@saronyitbarek

7 years

Looking at my twitter feed, it feels like the longer you've been coding professionally, the less you actually like coding. For people who've been coding for 10+ years, is this how you feel?

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@upekabee

1 year

Gusto reaches $500M in trailing revenue, teams up with Remote to support international hires via @techcrunch

Gusto reaches $500M in trailing revenue, teams up with Remote to support international hires |...

Gusto, best known for its American payroll management software and services, is playing in the big leagues.

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@upekabee

6 years

Super excited for #BuildingUpwards today. @JillWetzler opening with lessons about scaling and growth.

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@upekabee

6 years

Ally Skills Training at @GustoHQ by @vaurorapub and @frameshiftllc 🍉

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@upekabee

6 years

“How to run Docker and get more sleep than I did” #GustoEng by @mallyvai

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@upekabee

7 years

The key thing about doing work in #DiversityandInclusion is not to get discouraged. Phew. #noteToSelf #womenInTech

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@upekabee

5 years

I won the book giveaway @atrium ’s fireside chat with @Lethain last night! Someone in the office is getting a 🎁 cos I’ve already read it 😁 w/ @ShitritOmri