On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 5:08 PM, Terry Chay <tc...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Hello everyone, > > It’s with great pleasure that I’m announcing that Kunal Mehta[1] has > joined the Wikimedia Foundation as contractor in Features Engineering. > > Before joining us (and currently), Kunal is a student in college, > switching from computer science to business administration for reasons that > I’m sure warrant more discussion. > > Kunal is currently a Wikipedia admin got involved working on the projects > 8 years ago. He also helps writing and maintaining bots (legoktm <3’s > pywikibot) and working on the nether regions of the volunteer developer > community as part of the Volunteer Response Team, which he currently > continues to do[2]. I met him at Wikimania through a Wikidata scholarship > because apparently we were too cheap to spring for his ticket. > > Kunal will be working with the Core Features Team since MassMessage[3] and > Echo[4] have overlapping concerns, and Flow[5] can use more development > support now that it is out. When he isn’t doing that you’ll see him around > adding this and that to core or the bots. :-) > > Kunal lives and goes to school in San Jose. Most importantly, he’s > unlocked level 2 in Naan Sense on FourSquare[6]. From his username on the > projects, I’d also bet he must like Lego Mindstorms[7]. > > For the record, Kunal, I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords. > > As you have guessed from my usual tardiness and my drive to finish my > announcements before the calendar year, his first official day was actually > October 28th (Only two months ago? Not bad, not bad at all). > > Please join me in a belated welcome of Kunal Mehta to the Wikimedia > Foundation. > > Take care, > Terry > > Welcome to the Evil Wikimedia Foundation Empire ;-) _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
