Welcome Yuri and Adam! Great to have you on the mobile team which is growing!
Best, Alolita On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Dan Foy <d...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Welcome Yuri and Adam! We're glad to have you join us! > > - Dan > > > > On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 10:29 AM, Tomasz Finc <tf...@wikimedia.org> wrote: >> >> Greetings all, >> >> I'm pleased to announce that the mobile department has two new staff >> members. Yuri Astrakhan & Adam Baso join as sr. software developers on >> the mobile partner team. In this role Yuri and Adam will support >> projects like Wikipedia Zero, SMS/USSD, and J2ME to further the reach >> of our projects in geographic areas that have both financial and >> technical impediments to access Wikipedia. They will be working >> closely with Kul and Dan from the global development group. >> >> Yuri has been heavily involved in Wikipedia-related projects 2005-2007 >> developing the API framework and querying subsystem, contributing to >> pywikibot code, and making millions of changes as yurikbot, while at >> the same time working as a software consultant for several large >> banks. In 2008 Yuri joined a small hedge-fund to lead the development >> of an automated trading platform. While there, Yuri continued various >> open source projects such as time-series database (timeseriesdb). >> >> After over five years, Yuri has rejoined the MediaWiki community and >> will be working for us from New York. >> >> Adam spent the past seven years working in the field of information >> security, specializing in application security, identity management, >> and encryption in the retail, government, and banking sectors. Adam >> led the OWASP Minneapolis-Saint Paul chapter for a couple of years, >> and proudly organized the OWASP AppSec USA 2011 conference. Adam and >> his wife are relocating to San Francisco from Minneapolis-Saint Paul, >> and they look forward to the opportunity to live in such a thriving >> software-friendly community. >> >> The mobile group is excited and proud to welcome both Yuri & Adam as >> sr. engineers to the partner team. >> >> This completes the team and allows them to work aggressively to reach >> our 4 billion page target through outreach projects like Wikipedia >> Zero. >> >> Please join me in welcoming Yuri and Adam to the Wikimedia Foundation! >> >> --tomasz >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wmfall mailing list >> wmf...@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wmfall > > > > > -- > Dan Foy > Technical Manager, Mobile Partnerships > Wikimedia Foundation > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wmfall mailing list > wmf...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wmfall > -- Alolita Sharma Director of Engineering Language Engineering Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
