Congratulations Yuvi, you rock! On Sat, Nov 8, 2014 at 1:21 AM, Frances Hocutt <frances.hoc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Congratulations, Yuvi! > > Frances > > On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 8:55 AM, 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > -- Warm Regards, *Pratik Lahoti* GSoC Intern | Wikimedia User:BPositive <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:BPositive> _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
