On 03/18/2013 01:29 PM, Tomasz Finc 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.
Yay, another New York City person! :-) And I'm also excited to have helped bring one of our experts from the Wikimedia community to WMF. > 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. For those of you who haven't heard of http://owasp.org/ it's very bnat -- an effort to improve the security of all web-based applications through open source tools, materials, and trainings. It's great to have another security expert onstaff! > 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 Welcome, Adam and Yuri -- we're lucky to have you! -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
