Two years at TEAMIDEA! It’s time for some interim conclusions, what I’ve achieved and what not yet. Both work-related and not:
Work-related:
1. Managed to achieve recognition in the market with my team/our company – when it comes to SAP hybris, it’s about us. The main focus now is to enhance and deepen!
2. Assembled a wonderful e-commerce/hybris team, which is now finishing the third project and, god willing, will soon start the fourth. We’ve gained expertise, and by the end of 2015, I will be multiplying it among people, we are expanding, looking for 2xDEV (Java/Spring), QA, BA, SA.
3. Remaining a manager, I’ve enhanced my technical skills as I de facto play the role of an SAP hybris architect, dealing with code in Idea on Java/Spring, balancing estimates-contracts with beans-protocols. Just finished writing a “just for fun” converter from Yandex Market YML to SAP hybris. Created a demo marketplace with products from three online stores (60,000 products), all with attributes, with faceted search/navigation, image gallery, original categories, navigation. Pleased as punch 🙂
Not work-related over these two years:
1. Learned French at some level. Studied a couple of times a week with Anna Derevenitckaia for about a year and a half. I speak a little, read a little, write a bit worse. My trip to France this spring was a test of my French “to the limit”. Need to get back to it somehow.
2. Improved my piano playing skills – have been learning on weekends with Ivan Shapovalov for two years now. Piano still holds the top spot among hobbies. Currently learning the theme from Midnight in Paris, Bistro Fada http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9YNKRwI5aU
3. Quite significantly improved my English language skills with Alisa A Hale. Have been taking lessons for two years, once or twice a week, usually one-on-one, plus recently group lessons in the office.
4. Enhanced my drawing skills, tackled oil and pastel. Almost all drawings from this album are from the last 2 years: https://www.facebook.com/raufaliev/media_set?set=a.10151994159022368.1073741828.573817367&type=3 Unfortunately, haven’t been taught by anyone yet. Would like to.
5. Learned to ride a skateboard, ripstik, snowboard. Now I have something to love about snow in winter and parks in summer!
6. Started running. Although it’s not much and infrequent, it’s nice to realize that a 13 km run in the morning gives a great boost for the whole day. I would never have believed I could run even five km before.
7. Seem to have given up sweets (except for dates) and flour products. Just hit three months today.
Plans for the future – grandiose! So far, I like everything, we live and work on 🙂
Hi, I'm Rauf Aliev. 