Congrats indeed :)
On 16 October 2013 09:40, Ken Snider <ksni...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hello! > > I'm extremely pleased to announce that we've had two promotions within the > Technical Operations team! > > Leslie Carr has been promoted to Senior Operations Engineer (Networking). > As many of you know, along with Mark, Leslie has been instrumental in > securing preferred rates and contracts with with connectivity providers and > vendors on the networking side of our infrastructure - in a world where > human connections are every bit as important as topographic ones, Leslie > has maintained a vast network of contacts to help ensure that we're > receiving competitive pricing, fair peering, and a plethora of other perks > that come part and parcel with maintaining solid relationships in the > networking arena, while also taking point on many of the technical aspects > of our network infrastructure as well. > > We're lucky to have her, and I look forward to working with her as the > team completes the setup of ULSFO and begins work on our next data-centre > project. > > Ryan Lane has also been promoted to Senior Operations Engineer. Ryan has > served as the lead on the Labs project, a component of our infrastructure > that has become increasingly critical to projects both within WMF > engineering (with Beta Labs), as well as with various volunteer projects > (via Tool Labs). Ryan is about to head up the migration of this > infrastructure from Tampa to Ashburn as part of our plan to sunset the > Tampa data-centre. > > Additionally, Ryan has also played a key role in several non-labs-related > projects, including most recently our HTTPS-as-default project, as well as > work on integrating git-deploy into the mediawiki deployment pipeline. > Ryan's work has been invaluable, and this promotion well-deserved. > > Thanks! > > --Ken. > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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