Oh this is very good news. Who knew it would be so hard to find Data Scientists who wanted to *really* change the world :-). Well done, David! (and recruitment team for finding him).
Danese On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Rob Lanphier <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm pleased to welcome a new member of our analytics engineering team. > David Schoonover starts today in the San Francisco office[1] as our > new Systems Engineer for Data Analytics. David previously worked > remotely for a company in McLean, VA in Virginia's Silicon...thing > (not valley, forest or alley...what do they call it? "Silicon road to > Dulles"?). Anyway, David's work was at Clearspring, the company > responsible for the AddThis sharing widget that's installed across 10+ > million domains servicing 60k+ requests per second. He and a > co-worker built a scalable real-time analytics system to power the > Share Count feature of their tools, which is part of a real-time > dashboard you get as a user of their service. > > In addition to David's talent in database technology and software > engineering, David also adds to our growing team of capable > photographers in Platform Engineering. Because, after all, every good > engineering organization should have plenty of great photographers. > > I've also found David will immediately will draw a dinosaur[2] on a > whiteboard in whatever room he is in. So, those of you in our SF > office, if you see a plesiosaur on the whiteboard near you, that > probably means he's been there recently. Or maybe it's been there a > while but now won't erase. Either way, he probably drew it. > > David will be joining Andrew Otto and Erik Zachte in the analytics > group in Platform Engineering, working very closely with Diederik van > Liere from Howie's new Product Management team. David, Andrew and > Diederik (along with contractor Fabian Kaelin) are working on fixing > up our reporting pipeline and report card. > > Welcome David! > > Rob > > [1] Yes, that's right, I've actually hired another person in San > Francisco, and this time, I didn't have to convince him to move here. > When I have team meetings, I'll have to get a conference room with > THREE chairs. And a good phone. > [2] Dinosaur samples: http://art.less.ly/dinosaurs/ > > _______________________________________________ > 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
