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David Cauchi on Bug Busting and Life as a Remote QA Engineer

Star of the Month David Cauchi tells us about his responsibilities as a QA Engineer, learning from his son, and his plans for the future. David, tell us about yourself Hello, I am David and I'm from Malta. I have always had a passion for technology. The more bleeding edge it is, the better. At home, I like to tend to our terrace "garden". It's currently barren due to the colder weather. Nowadays, the lion's share of free time is...

January 27, 2022

Kathy Banach

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OTGS December News

As December brought holiday spirit around the globe we turned to upcoming releases. January will bring a major WordPress 5.9 release so we're making sure our plugins work perfectly with it and its new features. We also continued working with our partners across the board. WPML News We are still rolling out WPML 4.5 version to our clients. After the holidays, we'll be expanding it to 10% of the sites running WPML. At the start...

December 23, 2021

Laura de Figueiredo

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George Botsev on Why Remote Work is the Superior Way of Working

Our Star of the Month, George Botsev, talks about debugging user issues and working remotely from a village. Tell us a bit about yourself Here is me and my family. My wife and our two dogs. That day we did a walk around the fields near our house. George and his wife Detelina walking their dogs What were you doing before joining OTGS? System administration and support of business processes for a payment company. I was...

December 13, 2021

Dario Jazbec Hrvatin

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OTGS November News

In November, we kept rolling out our milestone WPML 4.5 release to more websites and had a super busy month in our Go-Global compatibility program. We also opened our Translation Hub to all small agencies and translators so they can set up their own translation service for clients. What’s New in WPML? We are still doing a phased roll-out of WPML 4.5 to our clients. Currently, we rolled it out to only 1% of the sites running WPML (which is...

December 2, 2021

Laura de Figueiredo

Community and Events, Work and Stories

Meeting Your Remote Team In Person During Covid Times

Covid has changed our lives in lots of ways, but it hasn’t changed our wish to get together once in a while as a company. Here's the story of how we organized a nice in-person meeting in Madrid at the end of October. As a fully remote company, one of the things OnTheGoSystems employees really look forward to is meeting in person at our company-wide events. Thanks to Covid, it was quite some time since we were able to have...

November 29, 2021

Dario Jazbec Hrvatin

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Mercedes Barreda on Her Work, Family and the Importance of Prioritizing

Star of the Month Mercedes Barreda talks about her path from being a professional translator to joining our Administration team, maintaining balance, and working from home as a mother of 2 boys. Mercedes, tell us a bit about yourself A trip to the north of Argentina, province of Jujuy I was born and am still living in the city of La Plata, the capital city of Buenos Aires province, Argentina. Also known as the city of diagonals and of linden...

November 12, 2021

Irina Sozonova

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Connecting Your Remote Team Through Live Cooking Sessions

There are a lot of online activities that remote teams can do together, and a live cooking session is one of them. Working remotely is great but requires extra effort to build connections within the team. At OnTheGoSystems, we're always eager to try new ways of connecting with each other. OnTheGoSystems cooking session online Coming from different parts of the world and with such a diverse background, we wanted to seize the opportunity and...

November 12, 2021

Mercedes Barreda

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OTGS October News

The star of this October was definitely the release of WPML 4.5. It allows you to simply let WPML translate your site automatically in the background while you focus on the content in the default language. WPML 4.5.0 WPML 4.5 introduces the new big feature called "Translate Everything" which lets you translate your content automatically in seconds. It's a one-time setting and the translations appear automatically in the background while you can continue creating content. You still have full control...

November 3, 2021

Laura de Figueiredo

Work and Stories

How to Grow Your Career from Supporter to Team Lead

Otto Federico Wald has come a long way since joining OntheGoSystems in 2015! Here’s how he progressed in his career, in his own words. Hanging around with my kids Tell us a bit about yourself. I am Otto :) I have two kids: Juan and Mateo. I like to spend time hanging with them at home or going out to eat or to the club so we can do some sports and enjoy the fresh air. I like to read....

November 2, 2021

Irina Sozonova

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Working cheerfully while working remotely

Star of the Month Andreas Panagiotopoulos talks about moving from QA to the Development team, maintaining balance, and working from home as a new dad. Andreas, tell us a bit about yourself. I am Andreas Panagiotopoulos, and I am from Argos Greece. I have completed my Bachelor’s degree in Electronic Engineering and then I took 2 Master's Degrees. One in Digital Communications and one MBA. All my studies have been done in Athens. I have lived in Athens since 2000,...

October 26, 2021

Irina Sozonova