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Victor’s favorite comfort food
What is Rice, beans, and chicken?
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This piece of feedback made Victor beam
What is keeping the HighCharts tooltips in the rates section on the current home page?
Right before launching the current home page, Victor created a branch to integrate the Highcharts tooltips developed for the data visualization project into the rates section. Everyone loved it, so we decided to include it in the rollout.
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The thing that is basically Victor’s fuel (Spoiler: a consumable - maybe a snack or maybe a drink!)
What is Coffee?
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The tool Victor uses so often that we can call it his sidekick.
What is NeovimBTW?
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The most eggs Victor has eaten in one day
What is 10?
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The teammate who could always get a laugh out of Victor
Who is Jacob?
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The Severance character Victor most identifies with
Who is Mr. Milchick?
Because he had the best dance moves
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Victor hated this project the most
What is Data Vis?
This was because he found the Highcharts documentation difficult to navigate
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The number of drinks Victor can have before he gets tipsy
What is less than 1?
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The project where Victor’s code practically sang
What is Data Center Templates?
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The number of views on Victor's first-ever TikTok video (Tip: Use round numbers)
What is over 26k views?
His wife did most of the work, though. Check it out: https://www.tiktok.com/@lantiguav/video/7492948986517654790
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Victor’s go-to Slack emoji response
What is :thankies: and/or :upvote:?
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The wedding cake flavor Victor and his wife chose. (Spoiler: It wasn’t vanilla.)
What is Coconut?
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If Victor weren’t a developer, this creative job would totally suit him
What is Programming Content Creator?
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A nickname Victor has been lovingly teased with
What is Uncle Victor?
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If you saw Victor deep in thought, it was probably because of this bug
What is the Lambda for the Data Center thumbnails?
Victor said that it felt like only a magician (or Carlos) could make it work. The Treasury rollout was his ultimate challenge though.
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The number of projects Victor has lead / co-lead since 2023
What is 6 projects?
2023 Bankrate Awards, 2024 Bankrate Awards, Homepage Redesign, Treasury, Hub Pages, and Article Template Redesign
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The team meeting that secretly brought Victor joy
What is Hack day and/or Tech sync?
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The place Victor would escape to if he had a free plane ticket anywhere
What is Italy?
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A feature Victor helped build that made sense to the non-tech folks
What is static list of autocompletion terms for Site Search?
For the pre-search experience, we initially decided not to include autocompletion due to technical limitations with Swiftype. However, Victor created a static list of autocompletion terms, which allowed us to implement the feature. He received positive feedback from both the creative team and stakeholders for this solution.
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The most important thing(s) Victor learned in BSE and will remember long after he leaves
What is that "story" is a social construct, and everything, in fact, is a ticket?
He also learned many other things i.e. He got comfortable working with CSS, especially with grid. He also learned the basics of Terraform, AWS, and caching, and picked up regex as well. However, he claims that the most important thing he discovered is about "story" :eyeroll:
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Victor’s favorite part of the dev process—where he was in his zone
What is measuring elements in Figma?
i.e. the Measuring elements in Figma to decide whether to use p-4 or p-6.
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The number of new security issues reported by Victor during his stent as Security Champion. (Hint: He became Security Champion in January)
What is six (6)?
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The stakeholder (outside the BSE team) that has a special place in Victor's heart.
Who is Adam Merrifield (from the Wealth team)?
He once gave Victor assistance in implementing a GitHub workflow that Wealth already had. He went above and beyond to unblock him.
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Outside of work, Victor’s hidden talent or hobby that might surprise you
What is board games?
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A phrase that Victor finds very funny (Spoiler: It's definitely from telly)
What is "Parkour!"?
Courtesy of Michael Scott
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The moment we knew Victor was one of us. (Cue the sentimental tears.)
What is his first in-person gathering in Texas?
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The design or feature Victor always low-key bragged about
What is Link Previews for articles?
He created the link previews for the articles as a proof of concept, and it ended up being used as the final feature. He is also proud of having contributed to our current site navigation.
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Number of stories Victor has completed on BSE (Hint: Since Horizon and BST merged)
What is 214?
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The moment Victor went full MVP and everyone knew it!
What is Completing the Fantasia migration to Treasury?