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Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 10:49:55 -0700
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Subject: [Wikimedia Announcements] [PRESS RELEASE] The Wikimedia Foundation
hires Damon Sicore as Vice President of Engineering
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Wikimedia Foundation hires Damon Sicore as Vice President of Engineering
New role strengthens Foundation’s commitment to excellence in engineeringThe
Wikimedia Foundation is pleased to announce that Damon Sicore will be joining
the Foundation in the newly created role of Vice President of Engineering.
Damon brings nearly two decades of engineering and product experience to
Wikimedia, the non-profit organization responsible for Wikipedia -- the world’s
fifth most visited website, serving half a billion readers every month.Damon
will manage the Foundation’s engineering team dedicated to ensuring the
development, scale, and reliability of Wikimedia’s technical architecture.
Before joining Wikimedia he spent six years at Mozilla Corporation, three of
them as Vice President of Engineering, where he led a team of more than 600
open source software engineers, technical leads, managers, and directors in
developing Mozilla Firefox, the Mozilla open source platform, Firefox for
Android and Firefox OS. Under his leadership Mozilla delivered some of their
most significant browser releases and launched Mozilla’s entry into mobile with
Firefox OS.“Damon has extensive experience with high-scale, open source
technologies and an intrinsic understanding of our mission and values,” said
Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director, Lila Tretikov. “He brings
organizational and scaling skills necessary to improve and innovate for our
communities of contributors and the next generation of knowledge seekers.”Most
recently, Damon led engineering at Edmodo, an emerging platform for sharing
educational content for teachers and students, where he oversaw and grew the
company’s web, platform, and mobile engineering, security, IT operations,
support, and QA efforts."The Wikimedia projects are front and center in the
fight for free knowledge, and that’s why I am here,” said Damon Sicore. “I'm
looking forward to challenging us to ensure our software is up to the task. We
need to move fast and produce the high quality software and services our users
will love. It's what the world expects and deserves from us.”Damon joins the
Wikimedia Foundation as part of planned growth of the organization’s technical
capacity, first announced in November 2012. Erik Moeller, who has filled the
role of Vice President of Product and Engineering since 2011, will continue to
focus on product in the role of Vice President of Product and Strategy.About
the Wikimedia Foundationhttps://wikimediafoundation.org
https://blog.wikimedia.org/The Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit
organization that operates Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Across its 287
language versions, Wikipedia contains more than 32 million articles. Every
month, roughly 80,000 active volunteers contribute to Wikipedia and the other
Wikimedia projects. According to comScore Media Metrix, the projects operated
by the Wikimedia Foundation receive 413 million unique visitors per month on
desktop alone, making them the fifth-most popular web property worldwide (July
2014). Based in San Francisco, California, the Wikimedia Foundation is an
audited, 501(c)(3) charity that is funded primarily through donations and
grants.Wikimedia Foundation Press Contact:Katherine Maher+1 415-839-6885 ext
6633katherinewikimedia.org
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