Awesome. Congrats Yuvi! On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 1:14 AM, Derric Atzrott <datzr...@alizeepathology.com > wrote:
> Agreed! Congrats! > > > Awesome Yuvi. Congratulations! :D > > > >> On Nov 6, 2014, at 10:47 PM, Danese Cooper <dan...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> Woot! Way to go, Yuvi! > >> > >> D > >> > >> On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 4:55 PM, Mark Bergsma <m...@wikimedia.org> > wrote: > >> > >>> Hi all, > >>> > >>> I'm very pleased to announce that as of this week, Yuvi Panda is part > of > >>> the Wikimedia Technical Operations team, to work on our Wikimedia Labs > >>> infrastructure. Yuvi originally joined the Wikimedia Foundation Mobile > team > >>> in December 2011, where he has been lead development for the original > >>> Wikipedia App and its rewrite, amongst many other projects. > >>> > >>> Besides his work in Mobile, Yuvi has been volunteering for Ops work in > >>> Wikimedia Labs for a long time now. One of the notable examples of his > work > >>> is a seamlessly integrated Web proxy system that allows public web > requests > >>> from the Internet to be proxied to Labs instances on private IPs > without > >>> requiring public IP addresses for each instance. This very user > friendly > >>> system, which he built on top of NGINX, LUA, redis, sqlite and the > >>> OpenStack API, sees a lot of usage and has dramatically reduced the > need > >>> for Labs users to request (scarce) public IP address resources via a > manual > >>> approval process. > >>> > >>> Another example of his work that has made a big difference is the > >>> initiation of the Labs-Vagrant project; bringing the virtues of the > >>> Mediawiki:Vagrant project to Wikimedia Labs, and allowing anyone to > bring a > >>> MediaWiki development environment up in Labs with great ease. More > recently > >>> Yuvi has been working on our much needed infrastructure in Labs for > >>> monitoring metrics (Graphite) and service availability (Shinken). We > expect > >>> this will give us a lot more insight into the internals and > availability of > >>> software and services running in Wikimedia Labs and its many projects, > and > >>> we should be able to deploy it in Production as well. > >>> > >>> Of course all of this work didn't go unnoticed, and about half a year > ago > >>> we've asked Yuvi if he was interested to move to Ops. With his > extensive > >>> development experience and his demonstrated ability to join this with > solid > >>> Ops work to create stable and highly useful solutions, we think he's a > >>> great fit for this role. > >>> > >>> Yuvi recently had his VISA application accepted, and is planning to > move to > >>> San Francisco in March 2015. Until then he will be working with us > remotely > >>> from India. > >>> > >>> Please join me in congratulating Yuvi! > >>> > >>> -- > >>> Lead Operations Architect > >>> Director of Technical Operations > >>> Wikimedia Foundation > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > -- Ashish Dubey http://dash1291.github.io _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
