Its been my privilege to work with Corey as a tech lead, then engineering manager and peer product owner for 3 years. We will miss Corey immensely in app land, and I will miss him personally as a day-in-day-out partner on our apps, but I am so glad to see Corey's "work ethic, thought leadership, real world experience, and collegial spirit" being put to work to bridge the gaps and move us forward together.
I look forward to seeing the platform evolution plans turn into reality, and wish Corey, the new Core Platform team and all involved with bringing the working-group/CDP together all the best with this hugely important undertaking. On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 10:57 AM, Victoria Coleman <vcole...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > We are very pleased to be making three big announcements: > > 1. The Platform Evolution (PE) cross-departmental program (CDP) is > approved in the annual plan for next fiscal year. > > This PE CDP was developed with input from staff across our organization in > the Audiences and Technology Working Group. Together, these staff worked to > identify some of our most pressing issues while opening healthy discussions > between both departments and WMDE. > > Along with the other Technology programs funded in the annual plan, > funding of this program represents a renewed commitment by the Foundation > to the long term health of the technology that is key to supporting our > mission, staff and communities. > > > 2. We are creating the Core Platform team, a new converged platform and > services team to be the focus of the Platform Evolution CDP. > > > We are doing this in order to better support the PE CDP and begin the hard > work of re-architecting our technology stack into a more sustainable and > flexible platform, in support of the Wikimedia movement strategic > direction. The MediaWiki Platform team alongside the Services Platform team > hold some of the most senior technologists of our community. Their skill > sets and experience are vitally important for the success of the CDP so > they will be moving into the new Core Platform team. We want to thank Tim > Starling and Marko Obrovac for their hard work, leadership and dedication > which has brought us to this point. They and their teams are doing > incredibly important work to sustain our software stack day in day out > while also looking into the future and guiding the reengineering of our > platform to support the mission for the years ahead. > > > 3. Corey Floyd will be joining the Technology Department to lead the Core > Platform team. > > In addition to day to day management, Corey will operate in the program > management capacity for the PE CDP. Corey was instrumental in formulating > the PE CDP, assembling the program through extensive needs analysis, > synthesis, and collaboration with Foundation team members and WMDE. He > brings a proven track record in clarifying stakeholder needs and > translating them into amazing products. > > As many of you know, Corey started at the Foundation as an iOS engineer, > was promoted to manage the iOS and Android native apps engineers who worked > tirelessly to evolve the open source apps into award winners beloved by > millions of our users, and has been operating in an > engineering product owner capacity for the Infrastructure team within > Audiences-Readers. He is known for his work ethic, thought leadership, real > world experience, and collegial spirit. > > Audiences will be working to backfill the duties of Corey in Apps > engineering management and Reading Infrastructure product ownership, and > work is already underway to close these gap in conjunction with Corey’s > cutover to Technology. > > We’re happy to make the Platform Evolution CDP official. And please join > me in welcoming Corey to Technology, where he’ll transition on July 1, > 2018. We’ll be sharing more updates about the team and the PE CDP in the > coming weeks. > > > We are incredibly excited! > > > Victoria and Toby > > _______________________________________________ > Wmfall mailing list > wmf...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wmfall > > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
