# Four Years Strong: Celebrating Our Koganniversaries

DevFeed: [Four Years Strong: Celebrating Our Koganniversaries](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/four-years-strong-celebrating-our-koganniversaries-30790.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://devblog.kogan.com/blog/four-years-strong-celebrating-our-koganniversaries>)

Author: Kogan Dev Blog

Published: 2025-10-07T03:28:12Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Kogan.com](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/kogan-com.md>)

Topics: [engineering-culture](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/engineering-culture.md>), [Software Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/software-engineering.md>), [Tech Lead](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/tech-lead.md>), [Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/development.md>)

Tags: [culture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/culture.md>), [leadership](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/leadership.md>), [learning-growth](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/learning-growth.md>), [software-engineer](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software-engineer.md>), [software-engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software-engineering.md>), [team](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/team.md>), [tech-lead](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tech-lead.md>)

## AI overview

Kogan.com highlights three team members reaching four-year milestones and discusses their career growth, engineering experiences, leadership development, and reasons for staying with the company. The article also describes Sam O'Halloran's work improving product-variant handling across pipelines, batch jobs, OpenSearch, and the UI.

## Source excerpt

In a talent landscape full of competitive opportunities, where change and turnover are part of the norm, Kogan.com stands out as a place where people choose to stay, grow, and advance their careers. Many of our team members have long tenures, with some contributing as long as 12 or 15 years, reflecting the strong culture and opportunities here. This month, we celebrated three team members reaching their four-year milestone. To mark the occasion, we spoke with them about what has made their journey so rewarding, what has kept them at Kogan.com, and what continues to inspire and excite them as part of our team. Adam Slomoi Adam is currently the Tech Lead of a squad. He joined Kogan as a Software Engineer and quickly progressed to Senior Software Engineer, and most recently to Tech Lead. In this role, he continues to sharpen his technical skills while growing his passion for people leadership. How has your role or perspective on engineering evolved over the last four years?I've been fortunate to work across different areas of the business and on various components of our system during my time at Kogan. One theme that has remained consistent throughout, and that I've gained a greater appreciation for, is the focus on business outcomes. How did you feel stepping into your first leadership role, and what did you learn from the experience? I felt well prepared before officially taking on a leadership role. We have a very collaborative team, and there have been many opportunities along the way to have a say and help set the direction for the team. Sam O'Halloran Sam started at Kogan in his first formal software engineering role straight out of university. He has honed his technical skills, contributed significantly to his team, and grown in both technical depth and breadth, applying best practices efficiently. Which project are you most proud of, and what made it exciting or unique? I'm most proud of the work on product variants. It wasn't one big launch, just lots of small