How IT professionals work. Daria Kulaga, Lead Developer, AT Consulting Regional Business Unit

We continue to ask specialists about the mode of work and rest, professional habits, the tools they use, and much more. It will be interesting to find out what unites them, in what they contradict each other. Perhaps their answers will help to identify some general patterns, useful tips that will help many of us.

Today our guest is Daria Kulaga, the leading developer of the regional business unit of AT Consulting .

Daria graduated from the Faculty of Applied Mathematics of the Kuban State University with a degree in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science. Before AT Consulting, a year and a half was a developer in a web-studio. Currently working in the specialty for five years.
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What do you do in the company?

I mainly deal with development tasks, planning release cycles, constantly communicate with the team.

One word that best describes how you work:

Incendiary.

How many hours a day do you spend on work?

8-10 hours.

How many hours do you sleep?

6-7 hours

How do you have breakfast?

Coffee and casserole or sandwich. Most often already in the office.

What are you doing on the way to / from work?

Listening to music / radio.

What kind of todo-manager do you use personally?

JIRA for scheduling work tasks.

What applications and services can't you do without?

Skype, Sberbank Online, Yandex.Probki, Yandex.Music.

What kind of task manager / issue tracker / repository do you use in the company?

JIRA and the Git repository.

What other tools and software do you use at work?

Intellij Idea, SoapUI, Java, MongoDB, Notepad ++.

Does the company have internal projects?

There are several internal projects in our company, for example, an intranet portal and a mobile intranet; my colleagues separate them by their development.

What annoys you most when you work?

I don’t like it when unplanned switching occurs between completely different tasks in the process of work. I do not like it when something goes wrong.

What professional literature would you recommend?

Mike Cohn, “Custom Stories. Agile software development .

What do you prefer: electronic reading rooms or paper books?

I prefer paper media, although I think to master electronic reading rooms.

What technique and why do you prefer at work and at home?

I have no special preferences in the brands of technology. The main thing that the equipment was stable and high-performance.

What do you listen when you work?

I have several playlists on Yandex. Music. This is a diverse music - from soundtracks to Russian rock.

Which life hack allows you to be more efficient?

A plan helps me: plan for the day, plan for shopping. I love the feeling of satisfaction that appears if all or most of the items are fulfilled (smiles).

What kind of professional advice for the future can you give yourself?

Do not be afraid to try something new, to take a step towards the terrible at first glance and the unknown. And then everything will turn out, even if not immediately.

What would you recommend to a person trying to go the same way?

A person who is trying to go the same way as I also advise not to be afraid of the new. You do not need to give up after the first failures, you need to go forward, then you will definitely achieve a high result.