Ken Snider..welcome!
On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 12:05 AM, Sydney <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- *Nurunnaby Chowdhury Hasive* Bangladesh Ambassador | Open Knowledge Network Foundation (OKFN)<http://www.okfn.org> Auto-confirmed, Reviewer & Roll backer Editor | Bangla Wikipedia<http://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/user:nhasive> Treasurer & Coordinator (PR) | Bangladesh Open Source Network (BdOSN)<http://www.bdosn.org> Coordinator (PR) | Society for the Popularization of Science, Bangladesh (SPSB) <http://www.spsb.org>* *Central Team MOVers | Bangladesh Mathematical Olympiad Committee (BdMO)<http://www.matholympiad.org.bd> Facebook: fb.com/nhasive | Twitter: @nhasive<http://www.twitter.com/nhasive>| Skype: nhasive | www.nhasive.com _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
