This is great!! Welcome Andrew! On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Rob Lanphier <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi everyone, > > I'm pleased to announce Andrew Otto will be coming to Wikimedia > Foundation as a software developer in Platform Engineering, focused on > analytics. We've been hiring for this spot for quite some time, and > I'm happy we held out for Andrew. > > Andrew comes to us from CouchSurfing, where he worked for the past > four years as one of the very early technical staff there, working in > various places throughout the world (Thailand, Alaska, and New York > are the ones I recall). His team scaled their systems from a few web > servers and one monolithic database, to a cluster of over 30 machines > handling almost 100 million page views per month. He was responsible > for introducing Puppet for system configuration at his last job, and > much of his work at CouchSurfing has been in reviewing code and > maintaining a consistent architecture for CouchSurfing. > > We're really excited to have Andrew on board to help bring some > systems rigor to our data gathering process. Our current data mining > regime involves a few pieces of lightweight data gathering > infrastructure (e.g. udp2log), a combination of one-off special > purpose log crunching scripts, along with other scripts that started > their lives as one-off special purpose scripts, but have gradually > become core infrastructure. Most of these scripts have single > maintainers, and there is a lot of duplication of effort. In > addition, the systems have a nasty tendency to break at the least > opportune times. Andrew's background bringing sanity to insane > environments will be enormously helpful here. > > Andrew has an email address and is technically starting the onboarding > process, but is still wrapping up at CouchSurfing. He'll be with us > part-time starting January 17, and ramping up to full-time starting in > April. > > Andrew is based out of Virginia, but is still traveling the world. > Right now, you'll find him in New York City. Please join me in > welcoming Andrew to the team! > > Rob > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
