[Wikitech-l] Please Welcome Sean Pringle, our latest TechOps member
Hi All, The Technical Operations team is pleased to announce Sean Pringle joined us today ( 24th June, 2013). Among his duties, Sean will be attending to all aspects of the database layer including management, monitoring, design, capacity, performance, and troubleshooting. Sean comes with vast experience in database technology and development background with a specific focus on MySQL and MariaDB. He has held senior roles in database support, database administration, and technical writing with various companies including MySQL AB, Sun Microsystems, and SkySQL Ab. He also has fingers in a few non-profit and open-source projects scattered around the net. Sean hails from Queensland, Australia and while he travels around frequently, he inevitably always flee back to his down under home. He confessed being forever distracted by all things geek and technology related though he can also be spotted behind a telescope on starry nights and with nose in a book when the cloud rolls in. To quote him, I am excited to be joining the WMF, an opportunity which I see as an 11 on the awesomeness scale of 1 to 10 ! Please join us in welcoming Sean! CT Woo Ken Snider ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
[Wikitech-l] Please Welcome Latest TechOps member - Alexandros Kosiaris
All, We are excited to announce Alexandros Kosiaris will join us this Monday (2013-05-17) as a full-time member of the Technical Operations staff. He will be based in Athens, Greece. Alex (short for Alexandros) has a 10-year experience in the System Engineering, having worked as a senior systems Engineer in GRNET NOC, the Network Operations Center of the Greek Research and Education Network and National Technical University of Athens' Network Operations Center. An avid user of open-source software for more than 13 years he also tries to contribute whenever he can. He maintains a number of FreeBSD ports plus a couple of small open-source projects. He lives in Athens, Greece. Aside from all things technical, he also enjoys wind-surfing, skiing and basketball. Alex will be in San Francisco office this coming Monday and please drop by to welcome him! Thanks, CT Woo ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
[Wikitech-l] Fwd: [Wmfall] Announcing Pending Departure
Forwarding my earlier message to wikitech-l. Best, CT -- Forwarded message -- From: Ct Woo ct...@wikimedia.org Date: Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 5:44 AM Subject: [Wmfall] Announcing Pending Departure To: Staff (All) wmf...@lists.wikimedia.org All, It is never a good time or easy to leave the job you love. With regrets, it saddens me to announce that I'll be leaving the Foundation in about 3 months. The exact timing of my departure will depend on finding my replacement and the transition over to my successor. In my two and half years with the Foundation, we saw the growing and maturing of the TechOps department, resulting in significant improvement in both the technical infrastructure and service processes. The entire technology stack has been refreshed reducing much of our technical debt and we built and migrated to a new and better designed datacenter. In addition, the site performance and stability are ever best. I am so proud to be working with the highly capable and talented TechOps and the engineering teams . * * My future plans are still in the works. I might restart my previous not-for-profit education startup (teaching technology to kids) or seek another exciting adventure that is fulfilling. I do, however, know that I want to spend more time with my aging parents now and, of course, with my immediate family. I like to thank all of you for making my experience here so memorable, especially to my team who have been extremely wonderful to work with. Thank you so much! CT Woo ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
[Wikitech-l] Announcing Latest Member to Operations Engineering Team - Brandon Black
All, We are excited to announce that Brandon Black will join us this Monday (2013-04-01) as a full-time member of the Operations Engineering team. Brandon comes with deep and wide technical experience. Previously, he held senior systems engineering positions in companies like SqueezeNetwork.com, Veritas DGC, MCI WorldCom and Networks Online. He is an active proponent and contributor of open-source software, and has contributed a new GPL-licensed DNS software (gdnsdhttps://github.com/blblack/gdnsd) to accomplish global-level geographic balancing and automatic failover without paying for expensive commercial solutions. Brandon resides in Magnolia, TX, but has roamed the planet all his life (like spending his High School years in Singapore). He is excited to join the Wikimedia Ops team and hopes to learn many new things from the experience. His interests include auto racing, being a professional amateur, and learning new skills by starting projects which he has no idea how to finish. Brandon will be in San Francisco office this coming Monday and please drop by to welcome him! Thanks, CT Woo ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
[Wikitech-l] Engineering Announcement: Marc-Andre Pelletier joins TechOps
All, I am pleased to announce Marc-Andre will be joining us as aTechnical Operations Engineer (contractor) starting this February 25, 2013. His primary focus will be to build up the Wikimedia Labs infrastructure and to assist the community developers to migrate their tools to that infrastructure, especially those residing on the Toolserver today. Marc-Andre is an active wikipedian and he is better known as 'Coren' on English Wikipedia and has been a volunteer editor since 2006 where he has served as administrator and arbitrator. He also always kept himself involved with the technical and procedural aspects of automated editing (so-called bots), having written and operated a copyright-violation detection bot for several years. Marc has been a Unix system administrator and occasional computer science instructor for 20+ years, in fields ranging from telecommunication to game development. He studied IT at École de Technologie Supérieure (Canada). Please join me to welcome him and you can find him on IRC (freenode.net) using the nick 'Coren'. Thanks. CT Woo ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
[Wikitech-l] Completed ! Re: More Update on Ashburn data center switchover / migration – target date is week of 1/22/13
All, The switchover work is done. The site was was available to readers throughout the migration work though it was in read-only mode for about 32 minutes, when Asher and Mark had to migrate the database masters over from Tampa to Ashburn. We will cancel the reminding maintenance windows. Thank you all for your patience and understanding. Regards, CT Woo On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 10:57 AM, Ct Woo ct...@wikimedia.org wrote: All, We will be proceeding with the datacenter switchover plan this coming Tuesday (Jan 22, 2013), unless we discover some unexpected and insurmountable issues in our tests between now and then. During the 8-hour migration window on the 22nd, 23rd and 24th (from 17:00 UTC to 01:00 UTC hours / 9am to 5pm PST), there would be times (lasting about 30 minutes) where the site would be set to read-only mode, to facilitate master database switchovers from one datacenter to another. While the site should be available to readers, no new contents could be created, edited or uploaded. We are aware of the inconvenience and we have put together plans to minimize such annoyances, e.g., automating much of the procedures, mitigating known risks, and performing tests to identify issues prior to deployment. Given the scale and complexity of this migration, we do realize not all operational impact is predictable. Some users could experience intermittent site unavailability and/or performance issues unfortunately. You can follow the migration on chat.freenode.nethttp://irc.freenode.net (and not irc.freenode.org as mentioned in previous email) in the #wikimedia-operations channel. Thanks, CT Woo -- Forwarded message -- From: Ct Woo ct...@wikimedia.org Date: Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 12:07 PM Subject: Update on Ashburn data center switchover / migration – target date is week of 1/22/13 To: Wikimedia developers wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org, Development and Operations Engineers engineer...@lists.wikimedia.org All, The Migration team is in the last lap on completing the remaining tasks to ready our software stack and Ashburn infrastructure for the big switchover day. Per my last update,http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2012-October/063668.html with the Fundraising activity behind us now, the team has scheduled the *week of 22nd January*, 2013 to perform the switchover. We are going to block a 8-hour migration window on the *22nd, 23rd and 24**th*. During those periods, *17:00 UTC to 01:00 UTC hours (9am to 5pm PST*), there will be intermittent blackouts and they will be treated as 'planned' outages. You can follow the migration on irc.freenode.org in the #wikimedia-operations channel. The team is putting the finishing touches to the last few tasks and we will make the final Go/No decision on 18th Jan, 2013. An update will send out then. For those interested in tracking the progress, the meeting notes are captured on this wikitech pagehttp://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Eqiad_Migration_Planning#Improving_Switchover . *Please note that we will be restricting code deployment during that week, allowing only emergency and critical ones only.* Thanks. CT Woo ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
[Wikitech-l] More Update on Ashburn data center switchover / migration – target date is week of 1/22/13
All, We will be proceeding with the datacenter switchover plan this coming Tuesday (Jan 22, 2013), unless we discover some unexpected and insurmountable issues in our tests between now and then. During the 8-hour migration window on the 22nd, 23rd and 24th (from 17:00 UTC to 01:00 UTC hours / 9am to 5pm PST), there would be times (lasting about 30 minutes) where the site would be set to read-only mode, to facilitate master database switchovers from one datacenter to another. While the site should be available to readers, no new contents could be created, edited or uploaded. We are aware of the inconvenience and we have put together plans to minimize such annoyances, e.g., automating much of the procedures, mitigating known risks, and performing tests to identify issues prior to deployment. Given the scale and complexity of this migration, we do realize not all operational impact is predictable. Some users could experience intermittent site unavailability and/or performance issues unfortunately. You can follow the migration on chat.freenode.net http://irc.freenode.net (and not irc.freenode.org as mentioned in previous email) in the #wikimedia-operations channel. Thanks, CT Woo -- Forwarded message -- From: Ct Woo ct...@wikimedia.org Date: Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 12:07 PM Subject: Update on Ashburn data center switchover / migration – target date is week of 1/22/13 To: Wikimedia developers wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org, Development and Operations Engineers engineer...@lists.wikimedia.org All, The Migration team is in the last lap on completing the remaining tasks to ready our software stack and Ashburn infrastructure for the big switchover day. Per my last update,http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2012-October/063668.html with the Fundraising activity behind us now, the team has scheduled the *week of 22nd January*, 2013 to perform the switchover. We are going to block a 8-hour migration window on the *22nd, 23rd and 24**th*. During those periods, *17:00 UTC to 01:00 UTC hours (9am to 5pm PST*), there will be intermittent blackouts and they will be treated as 'planned' outages. You can follow the migration on irc.freenode.org in the #wikimedia-operations channel. The team is putting the finishing touches to the last few tasks and we will make the final Go/No decision on 18th Jan, 2013. An update will send out then. For those interested in tracking the progress, the meeting notes are captured on this wikitech pagehttp://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Eqiad_Migration_Planning#Improving_Switchover . *Please note that we will be restricting code deployment during that week, allowing only emergency and critical ones only.* Thanks. CT Woo ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
[Wikitech-l] Update on Ashburn data center switchover / migration – target date is week of 1/22/13
All, The Migration team is in the last lap on completing the remaining tasks to ready our software stack and Ashburn infrastructure for the big switchover day. Per my last update,http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2012-October/063668.html with the Fundraising activity behind us now, the team has scheduled the *week of 22nd January*, 2013 to perform the switchover. We are going to block a 8-hour migration window on the *22nd, 23rd and 24**th*. During those periods, *17:00 UTC to 01:00 UTC hours (9am to 5pm PST*), there will be intermittent blackouts and they will be treated as 'planned' outages. You can follow the migration on irc.freenode.org in the #wikimedia-operations channel. The team is putting the finishing touches to the last few tasks and we will make the final Go/No decision on 18th Jan, 2013. An update will send out then. For those interested in tracking the progress, the meeting notes are captured on this wikitech pagehttp://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Eqiad_Migration_Planning#Improving_Switchover . *Please note that we will be restricting code deployment during that week, allowing only emergency and critical ones only.* Thanks. CT Woo ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
[Wikitech-l] TechOps welcomes Mike Wang...
All, Mike Wang is joining us today as our part time Labs Ops Engineer (consultant), based in Tampa, FL. As a member of the Labs team, he will be working closely with Ryan Lane, Andrew Bogott and Faidon Liambotis, to perform day-to-day labs support duties such as systems administration and resolving user issues. Prior to joining us, Mike was a Linux Administrator at Xcira Inc. and Videogroup Distributor Inc., in Tampa. He grew up in China and where he received a B.S. in Mathematics from Shanxi University and a M.S. in Robotics from Beijing Institute of Technology. Please join us to welcome Mike and you can chat with him on our IRC #wikimedia-operations and #wikimedia-labs channels - his nick is 'wangatlargo'. Thanks, CT Woo ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
[Wikitech-l] Fwd: Update on Ashburn data center migration/switchover date
Forwarding to wider reach. Cheers, CT -- Forwarded message -- From: Ct Woo ct...@wikimedia.org Date: Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 11:24 AM Subject: Update on Ashburn data center migration/switchover date To: o...@wikimedia.org, WMF Engineering Management e...@wikimedia.org All, We set a Q2 goal to migrate our primary data center from Tampa to Ashburn, and earlier, communicated the planned switchover to be on 15th Oct., 2012. While we have been making good progress and completing the work on several key components such as databases, image-scalers, apache servers, and /home, we have also been encountering issues with Swift software (i.e., cross data center replication), Swift hardware failures (meltdown actually), Varnish video streaming and unexpected network cabling issues with the memcached servers. Resources have been diverted to work on resolving those issues and caused some delay in the schedule as a result. This week, Mark and Asher performed an assessment on the migration readiness state and concluded they are increasingly uncomfortable meeting the migration date, and even if we were to complete the rest of the outstanding tasks, the migration risks are high especially when we will be deploying new technologies (i.e., Redis and NetApp as multimedia store) that are inadequately tested. Since the Fundraising team is ramping up A/B testings now, and will be going full scale Fundraising mode this November till December (or January, ) we have decided to postpone the switchover till after all the Fundraising activities are over. The migration team will continue to work on completing the outstanding tasks, and to ready our Ashburn infrastructure for the big switchover day. Meantime, we will set up Ashburn data center to be a 'warm' backup site, in a standby mode, ready to take over full production traffic within a short period of time, should the need arises. Thanks. CT ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
[Wikitech-l] Announcement: Peter Youngmeister joins Wikimedia as Technical Operations Engineer
Hello Everyone, Please welcome Peter Youngmeister who joins us today (7/9/12) as a full-time member of the Technical Operations staff. He has been working as a contractor with the Foundation since last March 2011. Prior to that, he was with another great non-profit, kiva.org. Peter lives in Ann Arbor, MI, but is a Bay Area native and is around the office fairly often. You may have also run into him on IRC as notpeter. He is excited to be finding a more permanent home in the Wikimedia Ops team, so that he can continue protecting the data and fighting for the user. His interests include, metal working, fire sculpture and fire performance art, fine tea and fine liquors, and vegan cooking. Thanks, CT ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
[Wikitech-l] potential network issue due to packet losses
All, The Technical Operations team noticed abnormal network package losses sometime after yesterday's 'leap second' switch (midnight UTC). While it does not seem to impact the site availability at this moment, it is a concern. We are still not sure if is even related to the 'leap second' switch yet. Leslie has opened a ticket with our network equipment provider and together with Mark, they have been working with them to pinpoint the problem since this morning. It is possible that they might induce some latency/issue during the troubleshooting process. If you do experience anything abnormal, please let us know (email to o...@wikimedia.org or find us at the #wikimedia-operations IRC channel). Thanks, CT ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
[Wikitech-l] Welcome Faidon Liambotis - our latest TechOps team member!
Happy Monday. Please join me to welcome our latest member (contractor) to the Operations Engineering team, Faidon Liambotis. Faidon hails from Greece and he will be working remotely out of Athens. His immediate work at WMF with Ryan, Andrew and Sara is to enhance and deploy more services on the new WIkimedia Labs platform http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WMF_Projects/Wikimedia_Labs. Faidon comes with lots of experience and expertise in deploying and operating large scale LAMP-stack technologies and virtualized environment (such as KVM Ganeti), as well as a strong background in network administration. In addition, he is a active contributor and promoter of open-source software and the free culture movement. He is a volunteer with Debian since 2004 and became a member of the Debian Project since 2006. Recently, he was appointed to the Debian Systems Administration Infrastructure team. Prior to joining WMF, Faidon worked as a systems engineer at the Greek Research and Technology Network (GRNET), the national research and education network of Greece, since 2004. When not working, Faidon likes to travel around the world and meeting people. Faidon is enroute from Athens to San francisco currently and will be in the SFO office starting tomorrow (10th of April) to be orientated and to work with Tech Ops team. In fact, he mentioned if he is not too tired from the flight, he might be in the office late int he afternoon today! For those in SF office, do drop by and meet him in person when you have a chance. Thanks, CT ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
[Wikitech-l] Please Welcome Christian Aistleitner to Technical Operations
Hi All, TechOps is happy to announce Christian Aistleitner has joined us as a consultant/contractor. Christian, who is based in Linz, Austria, will work towards hardening the XML dump infrastructure. Though he just completed his PhD in 2011, he has been doing programming since his teenage years., and started working in 2001. His career revolves around free software integration, making software maintainable, and tracking down and fixing the ever hiding bugs. He is a self-confessed code reading junkie, feeding on twisted, obscure code. And this passion for the obscure is not limited to programming languages, but also translates to spoken languages, as he is keen on Esperanto. Finally, when not working or at home, you can often find Christian in playgrounds where there are swing and see-saws. Please join me in welcoming Chris and you can reach him on IRC (his nick is qchris). Thanks, CT Woo ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
[Wikitech-l] Site Incident report - 1/20/12
All, Earlier today, while fixing some network congestion problem with the bits servers, the varnish servers for bits.wikimedia.org went into an overload condition. While most affected users had incorrectly formatted wiki pages rendered due to missing javascript and css (the primary function of bits.wikimedia.org is to serve them), some experienced site slowness. The whole incident lasted for 10-15 minutes. The incident was investigated and documented, and now available at - http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Site_issue_January_2012 Regards, CT ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
[Wikitech-l] WMF Staff Announcement - Welcome Leslie Carr!
All, Technical Operations department is pleased to announce another new fabulous staff member to its team. Please join us to welcome Leslie Carr , our Network Operations Engineer, starting today, 10/10/11. She is based in San Francisco office. Leslie comes with deep and rich experience in Network Operations, ranging from building and scaling a rapidly expanding high capacity global network with several large data-centres to designing and migrating systems networks from legacy setup to new state of the art infrastructure. Prior to joining us, Leslie was with Twitter, where she was responsible for implementation of a major data-centre and network migration. Before that, she worked at Craiglist as the main network architect who redesigned and scaled their network infrastructure. Leslie has also worked for Google, where she created, designed and deployed redundant and scalable network for their various data-centres. Leslie has two pet cats and is an avid bike enthusiast , who bikes annually from SF to LA, for AIDS LifeCycle. Please join me in welcoming Leslie Carr to WMF and do drop by to say hi to her. You will not miss her (hint - look out for a reddish pink blue hair!). Thanks, CT Woo ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] WMF Staff Announcement - Welcome Leslie Carr!
Re : On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 12:23 PM, Daniel Friesen li...@nadir-seen-fire.comwrote: ^_^ Does she have any plans to hang around in irc? Yes, her irc nick is 'lcarr' I love having people around I can absorb tidbits of knowledge about designing and setting up infrastructure related to the use of MediaWiki. ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name] On 11-10-10 09:52 AM, CT Woo wrote: All, Technical Operations department is pleased to announce another new fabulous staff member to its team. Please join us to welcome Leslie Carr , our Network Operations Engineer, starting today, 10/10/11. She is based in San Francisco office. Leslie comes with deep and rich experience in Network Operations, ranging from building and scaling a rapidly expanding high capacity global network with several large data-centres to designing and migrating systems networks from legacy setup to new state of the art infrastructure. Prior to joining us, Leslie was with Twitter, where she was responsible for implementation of a major data-centre and network migration. Before that, she worked at Craiglist as the main network architect who redesigned and scaled their network infrastructure. Leslie has also worked for Google, where she created, designed and deployed redundant and scalable network for their various data-centres. Leslie has two pet cats and is an avid bike enthusiast , who bikes annually from SF to LA, for AIDS LifeCycle. Please join me in welcoming Leslie Carr to WMF and do drop by to say hi to her. You will not miss her (hint - look out for a reddish pink blue hair!). Thanks, CT Woo ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
[Wikitech-l] Please welcome Ben Hartshorne and Daniel Zahn
All, Please join me in welcoming Ben and Daniel to Wikimedia Foundation. Both Ben and Daniel are joining the Technical Operations team to help us to build, improve, scale and support our web systems and infrastructure. Ben, who is based in SF office, comes with a broad set of expertise and experiences in Systems Engineering and Operations, in particular, scaling the systems and creating tools to manage large number of servers. While his initial focus is on database and analytics systems, he will also be working on our new distributed (with redundancy and scalable) file system and getting the infrastructure in the new datacenter into full production. He comes to WMF from Linden Lab, makers of Second Life, where he was first a member, then a manager of the Systems Engineering team. The group was responsible for maintaining the thousands of servers that power the Second Life grid as well as the development, QA, and staging environments. In addition to maintaining the grid, the SE team at Linden was instrumental in helping the engineering group design systems and services in a way that would scale easily and fail safely, increasing reliability and uptime for the service as a whole. He is eager to learn new approaches to managing large numbers of servers with few people effectively, and would be happy to talk about how things work at Linden Lab for comparison. Prior to Linden, Ben helped grow Simply Hired from a 5-computer stealth startup to a 600-server company with millions of page views per month. Ben also enjoys adventure wherever he can find it, whether local or foreign. Travel, photography, cooking, backpacking, etc all keep swallowing up whatever time is left over. He was married last October and loves having a fish monger, baker, butcher, and vegetable market all within walking distance in the North Berkeley neighborhood where he lives. Daniel will initially be working out of from Cologne, Germany and he will be commuting to Amsterdam sporadically to work on our data center there. Previously, he has worked as a system administrator for OnVista Media, Ligatus, and Host Europe, managing and supports hundreds of servers. Daniel is also an active Wikipedian. He made his first edit on en.wp in Apr 2002, but spends most of his time on en.wikt. where he has been an administrator since 2008 and focuses on adding German words and categorization. He also maintains a statistics site about Mediawikis at http://s23.org/wikistats/. His global account name and IRC handle is mutante (cloak wiktionary/Mutante) while his WMF username is dzahn. Daniel has a daughter living here in the Bay Area and has taken her to visit our office last year. Besides speaking his native German tongue, he speaks English, French and a little ksh (Kölsch / Ripuarian). Thanks, CT ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
[Wikitech-l] New Employee Announcement - Jeff Green
All, Please join me to welcome Jeff Green to Wikimedia Foundation. Jeff is taking up the Special Ops position in the Tech Ops department where one of his responsibilities is to keep our Fundraising infrastructure secured, in compliance with regulation, scalable and highly available. Jeff comes with strong systems operation background especially in scaling and building highly secured infrastructure. He hails from Craiglist where he started as their first system administrator and served as their lead system administrator as well as their Operations manager, most of his tenure there. When not working, Jeff likes cycling, playing music, and building stuff. He is a proud father of two young kids and a lucky husband. He and his family will be moving back to Massachusetts this August. Please drop by next week to the 3rd floor to welcome him. For those who have already met him earlier, do come by as well to see the new 'ponytailess' Jeff ;-) Thanks, CT ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
[Wikitech-l] Please welcome Asher Feldman
Hi Everyone, Please join me in welcoming Asher Feldman to the Wikimedia Foundation where he is our newest member of the Technical Operations team. He will be starting in the San Francisco office on May 9, 2011, but you may see him around before then. He uses the nick handle of binasher in IRC. Asher comes with a broad set of database and systems expertise and as a Performance Engineer here, his focus will be on end-to-end stack tuning and troubleshooting, to drive better web site performance, availability, scalability and efficiency. In his previous jobs, Asher has worked on building and supporting high traffic web properties (e.g., Amazon and Flickr) and non-profits as well (Kiva.org, where he overhauled their web infrastructure and still assists in an advisory capacity.) In addition, he has held senior systems roles in EDS, Barclays Global Investors and Ofoto (Kodak.) Besides being a self professed 'geek', Asher is a fan of live and dj'd music, epicurean of fine and local foods, caudata wrangler, knitter, and a whiskey taster. He is the proud father of Hazel, who is an ardent fan of Roald Dahl, loves growing and collecting crystals, and all things related to the brothers Mario. Do drop by 3rd Floor to say hi to him. Thanks, CT ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
