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Shippo’s Year in Review: A Look Back at 2021
The Watering Hole | Dec 23, 2021

Shippo’s Year in Review: A Look Back at 2021

What a year 2021 has been – we’ve survived ups and downs, back and forths, and everything in-between. Those of us in the...

Shippo Leadership Q&A: Onward with Catherine Stewart
The Watering Hole | May 18, 2021

Shippo Leadership Q&A: Onward with Catherine Stewart

When last year’s search for a new COO began, our CEO Laura wanted to find a partner to help her run and grow the busines...

How Our Design Team Learns From Our Merchants
The Watering Hole | Apr 20, 2021

How Our Design Team Learns From Our Merchants

At Shippo, we’ve been working tirelessly to improve our product for the benefit of our merchants. With a ton of differen...

It’s A Bird. It’s A Plane. It’s Shippo’s Customer Success Team!
The Watering Hole | Mar 11, 2021

It’s A Bird. It’s A Plane. It’s Shippo’s Customer Success Team!

The Customer Success team at Shippo may seem like an ordinary customer-facing team from the outside, but they’re much mo...

What It’s Like to Work for Shippo’s Sales Team, According to Mike Hathaway
The Watering Hole | Feb 18, 2021

What It’s Like to Work for Shippo’s Sales Team, According to Mike Hathaway

Sales at Shippo is a great gig. Day in and day out our sales team gets to talk to the most passionate people on the plan...

Dev Corner Spotlight: James Brown, Engineering Manager
The Watering Hole | Dec 10, 2020

Dev Corner Spotlight: James Brown, Engineering Manager

Happy holidays, readers! In this installment of Dev Corner, we’re spotlighting a Shippo superhero and all-around wonderf...

The Road to Aurora PostgreSQL with Near-zero Downtime
The Watering Hole | Oct 01, 2020

The Road to Aurora PostgreSQL with Near-zero Downtime

After the 2018 holiday season, we realized that the rapid business growth of Shippo would soon cause our transactional A...

Shippo Leadership Q&A: Simon Kreuz on Shippo’s Past, Present, and Future
The Watering Hole | Aug 17, 2020

Shippo Leadership Q&A: Simon Kreuz on Shippo’s Past, Present, and Future

This post is part of our Shippo Leadership Interview Series where members of our leadership team will both share perspec...

Dev Corner Spotlight: Matthew Hwang, Senior Software Engineer
The Watering Hole | Jul 16, 2020

Dev Corner Spotlight: Matthew Hwang, Senior Software Engineer

At Shippo, we are proud of the work our team is doing on a daily basis to help bridge the gaps between e-commerce busine...

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