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Nir Orman

Software | Leadership | Entrepreneurship

About

Portrait of Nir Orman in a dark velvet shirt
Founder
Building no worries - AI Child Monitor that provides peace of mind for modern parents while they’re away from their kids. no-worries.com (opens in a new tab) ↗
Engineering Leader
Six years at Wix, ending as Director of eCommerce Engineering, where I also started Commerce Growth. I led Wix Commerce conferences in the US and defined the ICP and GTM strategy. I also spoke at conferences abroad, such as The Lead Summit in New York.
Nir presenting next to a screen at The Lead Summit
Get your e-commerce site ready for the holiday seasonThe Lead Summit, NYC
Nir and a colleague on stage at Wix eCommerce Mission Games
Unlocking eCommerce Growth workshopNew York, July 2024
Community Builder
Founded the Wix Engineering Women Community: almost 30 events for 300+ women, with talks by international women leaders to spark inspiration
Women at a Wix R&D Women meetup
Wix R&D Women meetupPersonal Branding
A team workshop around a yellow table
#IAmRemarkable Workshop
What else?
Book lover, but also…
A tandem skydive under a blue and yellow parachute
SkydivingAt 16
Nir in an F-16 cockpit, waving a gloved hand
Flying an F-16At 20
SnowboardingSince I was 10

Talks

Nir presenting at a screen showing examples
Game of Life Coding WorkshopTikal, 2022
Nir presenting to an audience at their laptops
Game of Life Coding WorkshopTikal, 2022
A full audience in a bright conference room
Things LLMs can't teach you about LLMsAI Summit, August 2023
Nir in front of a slide about innovation, software and people
Take Your AI Models to ProductionGeektime Evolve to AI, 2024

Podcasts

Podcasts I was a guest on

  1. Become a Leader by Thinking Like One with Wix’s Nir OrmanKeep Moving Forward
  2. Addressing Gender Imbalance in Software Engineering Through Community and MentoringEngineering Culture by InfoQ
Nir speaking with a microphone beside a screen
The Lead SummitNew York, July 2024

Writing

Software, deep learning and AI

Building it, testing it and what AI changes about it

Coding in the age of AI

For the past 4 months I felt like there’s no expertise in writing software anymore. Codex and Claude write 100% of the code, so what’s my role?

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Should Multi brands/multi languages sites have multiple domains?

A 20M$ retailer with 5 sub brands asked us to build 5 domains, one per brand. Our SEO experts recommended against splitting the business, and I explain why I came around to their view.

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Feature Retrospectives

The why, how and what of the agile retrospective. In this post, I’ll share with you why you should want your team to perform retrospectives. I’ll explain how to do it in a way that will make its benefits shine and I’ll provide a short template to get you started easily.

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Growing Object Oriented Software Guided by Tests

When I first joined Wix as a Software Engineer, I heard about the book Growing Object Oriented Software guided by Tests by Steve Freeman and Nat Pryce (which is referred to as the GOOS cause it’s official name is oh-so-long). In this series of posts, I will be summarizing the main chapters of the book.

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Running Deep Learning Algorithms as a Service

So, you have a really cool algorithmic library written in Python and TensorFlow/Keras/Some other platform that requires running workloads on a GPU and you want to be able to serve it at scale and have it up and running fast. Read how to do it on my medium blog!

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Leadership, books and community

Leading teams, reading, and building communities at work

Read to Lead & Lead to Read: Bookshelf Insights for R&D Managers

Books have been the quiet engine behind every major leap I’ve made, as a developer, as a manager, and as a leader. Bookshelf insights for R&D managers.

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How to start a professional community at work?

At Wix we have several professional guilds, like the Server guild, the Front End guild and the UX guild, and the Server guild alone has over 1,000 engineers worldwide. Here is how a community like that gets started.

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Women in Engineering Day 2021

“Don’t quit, don’t settle, never stop learning”

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Books

Nine favorites, with a line I keep coming back to. All my books on Goodreads (opens in a new tab) ↗

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“The best way to ride a horse is in the direction in which it is going.”

Chris VossNever Split the Difference

“The pessimists are usually right, but it’s the optimists who change the world.”

Simon SinekStart with Why

“There’s no one to perform for, there is just work to be done and lessons to be learned in all that is around us.”

Ryan HolidayEgo Is the Enemy

“You get revolutionary results by an evolutionary process.”

Jim CollinsGood to Great

“The Struggle is where greatness comes from.”

Ben HorowitzThe Hard Thing About Hard Things

“Beating the competition is relatively easy, but beating yourself is a never-ending commitment.”

Phil KnightShoe Dog

“A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.”

Ryan HolidayStillness Is the Key

“A manager’s output is measured by the output of the people he manages.”

Andrew S. GroveHigh Output Management

“A person’s name is to that person the sweetest and most important sound in any language.”

Dale CarnegieHow to Win Friends and Influence People

no worries

Like any working parent, at some point you need help from a caregiver. A nanny, a babysitter.

You put up a camera and almost never watch it. You hope for the best.

Until now, there was no better way.

Now there is. Meet no worries.Alerts the moment something needs you, a quiet timeline of the day, and a gentle summary once a day.

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Say hello

Talks, mentoring, press or no worries: write to me.

nirorman@gmail.com