How do IT professionals work? Andrey Shorin, Deputy Director of Operations, HeadHunter
We continue to question specialists about work and leisure routines, professional habits, the tools they use, and much more.
It will be interesting to find out what unites them, in which 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 Andrey Shorin from HeadHunter . Andrey spends a quarter of the day on self-education and training courses. When he needs to rehearse speech for public speaking, he pronounces the entire text to the music.
What do you do in the company?
Infrastructure: these are servers, external communication channels, switches, data center.
The second is interaction with development. This is a process that affects the speed and reliability of the calculation, deployment and, ultimately, the business.
Thirdly, the resolution of incidents, because failures occur, you need to react, understand, repair ... Users will not wait for us.
One word (phrase) that best describes how you work:
Integration.
How many hours a day do you devote to work?
Intensive work is approximately 4 hours a day. The rest are interruptions that cannot always be evaluated. And about one and a half to two hours a day goes to self-development, training, courses.
How many hours do you sleep?
I want to sleep 8, but I wake up after 7 hours usually. But I'm working on it (smiles).
Does it take a lot of time on the road?
Maximum - 40 minutes if by car. On foot - stably 30 minutes.
What are you doing at this time?
If on foot - I read. I have a Yotaphone, there on the second screen it is convenient to read books. If I'm driving in a car, I’m just thinking.
Which todo manager do you personally use?
This is MaxDone. It was created by Maxim Dorofeev with his magnificent Jedi technique. This allows you to cleanse the brain and give place to new creative thoughts.
What task manager / issue-tracker / repository do you use?
JIRA and wiki from Confluence. Repository - GitHub.
What tools, frameworks do you use for development?
Bought a corporate Slack account. We also use Ansible. Deployment is written on it. For automated testing we use Jenkins.
Does your department have any internal projects, libraries, and why were they created?
When we implemented Ansible, we had to seriously modify it, because it did not solve the issues that we needed. Many commits have been taken upstream. It was the same with libCurl with c-ares and Tornado for Python. The guys also sent their improvements to upstream.
All these improvements are now actively used in the company.
What annoys you the most when you work?
Delays and expectations associated with stillness of thinking.
What kind of professional literature would you recommend?
Shchedrovitsky, "Organizational thinking." Back in Soviet times, when nuclear power plants were built, it was not easy to organize construction, logistics, and management. He teaches that the object of the manager’s activity is the structure of the organization, and not micromanagement.
What do you prefer: electronic readers or paper books?
Both. On the road, I have a Yotaphone with e-ink. In general, I love warm tube paper books. Sometimes I read one book at a time in two versions. I read from the phone on the road, and then I leaf through the paper at home and continue with it.
What equipment (computers, tablets, smartphones) and operating systems do you prefer at work and at home?
My wife and I have Android, including on the tablet. At work, Mac Book. The home computer is Windows.
Do you listen to music when you work?
I listen when I'm preparing for a speech. The rhythm of music helps me build the rhythm of speech. When I speak first to one music, and then to another, then at the performance this rhythm is preserved and helps maintain the mood of the audience.
Which life hack allows you to be more effective?
First, go to bed before midnight. Secondly, do a 15-minute meditation in the morning. This helps to gather thoughts in a single point.
What applications and services can you do without in work or in your personal life?
Evernote
What would Andrei Shorin write 10 years ago in a letter to the future to himself?
I hope that every minute you work or relax, you are happy.
You have come a long way. And someone is now at the beginning of this path. What would you recommend to a person trying to go the same way?
Choose the job from which you get high. You spend a third of your life at work. It will always be with you. Try to love the work and the people around.
