Re: [Wikitech-l] Welcome, Nik Everett
Welcome! On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 02:48:45PM -0700, Rob Lanphier wrote: [...] including maintenance and support of their Solr infrastructure. Yay! Solr power \o/ All the best, Christian -- quelltextlich e.U. \\ Christian Aistleitner Companies' registry: 360296y in Linz Christian Aistleitner Gruendbergstrasze 65aEmail: christ...@quelltextlich.at 4040 Linz, Austria Phone: +43 732 / 26 95 63 Fax:+43 732 / 26 95 63 Homepage: http://quelltextlich.at/ --- signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
[Wikitech-l] Welcome, Nik Everett
Hi everyone It is my pleasure to introduce Nik Everett as a new Senior Software Engineer specializing in Search, working remotely from his home in Raleigh, North Carolina. Nik joins us from Lulu, a company founded by Bob Young[1] to enable anyone to publish a book (dealing with print, distribution, and order fulfillment issues). Nik was responsible for a number of DevOps-related tasks at Lulu, mainly centered around test automation, build infrastructure, and database performance, but also including maintenance and support of their Solr infrastructure. He also founded and chaired Lulu’s architecture review board, which is similar to a group we’re just now starting up here[2] Prior to Lulu, Nik worked at Bandwidth.com, Radarfind, and Nortel. He has Bachelors Degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Nik knows many programming languages. He prefers writing in Python, but due to the nature of what we’re doing here, he’ll probably end up writing more Java and (of course) PHP. He likes picking up a new languages every so often. He’s currently playing around with Haskell, and on good days may be able to explain what a monad is. :-) Nik’s nick on Freenode is “manybubbles”, and he's cc'd on this mail. Rob [1] One of Bob Young’s other claims to fame is as co-founder and former CEO of Red Hat. [2] Not yet an “architecture review board”, but that may be as good a name as any for this: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2013-May/069569.html ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Welcome, Nik Everett
On 05/31/2013 05:48 PM, Rob Lanphier wrote: It is my pleasure to introduce Nik Everett as a new Senior Software Engineer specializing in Search, working remotely from his home in Raleigh, North Carolina. Jumping *peppers*!! This is *smiley* time! Do not forget to *enjoy the sauce*! -- Marc ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Welcome, Nik Everett
Welcome! I'm in the midst of trying to get MediaWiki to work with AWS's search interface, so it's always good to have more search people (although I'm sure you'll be doing more with WMF's search backend). *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 5:48 PM, Rob Lanphier ro...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi everyone It is my pleasure to introduce Nik Everett as a new Senior Software Engineer specializing in Search, working remotely from his home in Raleigh, North Carolina. Nik joins us from Lulu, a company founded by Bob Young[1] to enable anyone to publish a book (dealing with print, distribution, and order fulfillment issues). Nik was responsible for a number of DevOps-related tasks at Lulu, mainly centered around test automation, build infrastructure, and database performance, but also including maintenance and support of their Solr infrastructure. He also founded and chaired Lulu’s architecture review board, which is similar to a group we’re just now starting up here[2] Prior to Lulu, Nik worked at Bandwidth.com, Radarfind, and Nortel. He has Bachelors Degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Nik knows many programming languages. He prefers writing in Python, but due to the nature of what we’re doing here, he’ll probably end up writing more Java and (of course) PHP. He likes picking up a new languages every so often. He’s currently playing around with Haskell, and on good days may be able to explain what a monad is. :-) Nik’s nick on Freenode is “manybubbles”, and he's cc'd on this mail. Rob [1] One of Bob Young’s other claims to fame is as co-founder and former CEO of Red Hat. [2] Not yet an “architecture review board”, but that may be as good a name as any for this: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2013-May/069569.html ___ 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
Re: [Wikitech-l] Welcome, Nik Everett
On 05/31/2013 05:48 PM, Rob Lanphier wrote: Hi everyone It is my pleasure to introduce Nik Everett as a new Senior Software Engineer specializing in Search, working remotely from his home in Raleigh, North Carolina. Nik joins us from Lulu, a company founded by Bob Young[1] to enable anyone to publish a book (dealing with print, distribution, and order fulfillment issues). Nik was responsible for a number of DevOps-related tasks at Lulu, mainly centered around test automation, build infrastructure, and database performance, but also including maintenance and support of their Solr infrastructure. He also founded and chaired Lulu’s architecture review board, which is similar to a group we’re just now starting up here[2] Welcome! Matt Flaschen ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Welcome, Nik Everett
Awesome, welcome Nik! And see you June 17th, a few more of us remoteys will be in the office :) Dan On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 6:02 PM, Matthew Flaschen mflasc...@wikimedia.orgwrote: On 05/31/2013 05:48 PM, Rob Lanphier wrote: Hi everyone It is my pleasure to introduce Nik Everett as a new Senior Software Engineer specializing in Search, working remotely from his home in Raleigh, North Carolina. Nik joins us from Lulu, a company founded by Bob Young[1] to enable anyone to publish a book (dealing with print, distribution, and order fulfillment issues). Nik was responsible for a number of DevOps-related tasks at Lulu, mainly centered around test automation, build infrastructure, and database performance, but also including maintenance and support of their Solr infrastructure. He also founded and chaired Lulu’s architecture review board, which is similar to a group we’re just now starting up here[2] Welcome! Matt Flaschen ___ 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
