Welcome to Ken. It's great to see someone with his experience joining Wikimedia Foundation. Sydney Poore Sent from my iPhone
On Jun 6, 2013, at 12:18 PM, Erik Moeller <[email protected]> wrote: > FYI :) > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Erik Moeller <[email protected]> > Date: Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 9:17 AM > Subject: Welcome to Ken Snider, Wikimedia Operations > To: Wikimedia developers <[email protected]> > > > Hello all, > > I’m delighted to announce that Ken Snider is joining the Wikimedia > operations team. He will start as an international contractor working > remotely from Toronto, Canada on June 10, and will be visiting SF in > the week of June 17. We’re currently in the process of seeking work > authorization in the United States in the Director of TechOps > position. > > CT has graciously agreed to support the ops leadership transition > full-time through June, and part-time through July. We’ll be starting > the handover while Ken is working remotely. > > A bit more about Ken: Ken was apparently genetically predisposed to > become a sysadmin since he joined one of Canada’s first large ISPs, > Primus, straight out of school in 1997 and helped build their > infrastructure til 2001. He then joined a startup called OpenCOLA in > 2001 which was co-founded by Cory Doctorow and developed early P2P > precursors to tools like BitTorrent and Steam. It’s best known today > for the development of an open source (GPL’d) cola recipe which is > still in use (more than 150,000 cans sold if Wikipedia is to be > believed). > > Ken got involved in one of Cory’s pet projects, BoingBoing.net which > some of you may have heard of ;-), and has been their sysadmin since > 2003. After a stint from 2001-2005 at DataWire, Ken became Director of > Tech Ops at Federated Media, a role he held from 2005-2012. > > Federated Media is an ad network that was founded to support high > traffic blogs and sites that want to stay independent of large > publishers, with a network that supports more than 1B requests/day. > > One of the unusual challenges at FM was that the company grew through > acquisitions of various blogging and publishing networks. This led to > the challenge of integrating very heterogeneous operations and > engineering infrastructure, including multiple geographically > distributed ops teams and data-center locations. As DTO, Ken led these > efforts, such as OS standardization, development of a unified > deployment infrastructure, etc. Ken also ensured that the operations > group partnered effectively with the various engineering teams > developing site features and enhancements. > > I want to again take this opportunity to thank CT Woo for his tireless > operations leadership since December 2010. I’d also like to thank > everyone who’s participated in the Director of TechOps search process. > > Please join me in welcoming Ken to the Wikimedia Foundation and the > community. :-) > > All best, > > Erik > -- > Erik Möller > VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation > > > -- > Erik Möller > VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation > > _______________________________________________ > Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately > directed to Wikimedia-l, the public mailing list of the Wikimedia community. > For more information about Wikimedia-l: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > _______________________________________________ > WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
