That means no ignoring me on IRC Yuvipanda. ;-) Cyberpower678 English Wikipedia Account Creation Team Mailing List Moderator
> On Nov 6, 2014, at 21:40, Ryan Lane <[email protected]> wrote: > > This is totally awesome. Congrats Yuvi! > > On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 8:52 AM, Mark Bergsma <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Labs-l mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l > <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l> > > > _______________________________________________ > Labs-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l
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