On 12/07/2012 01:06 PM, Terry Chay wrote: > Hello everyone, > > It’s with great pleasure that I’m announcing that Matthew Flaschen has joined > the Wikimedia Foundation as a Features Engineer. > > Before joining us, Matthew was working at Entech Consulting doing a whole > bunch of web-projects from electricity utility sites to a cell phone store. > He received his B.S. in Computer Science as recently as December 2010 from > Georgia Tech. > > At Georgia Tech, he was the lead developer of the ProveIt[1] Gadget which is > live on English Wikipedia which is “probably the most advanced and > easy-to-use referencing tool available to editors.” He’s also been a > Wikipedia editor ([[User:Superm401]]) since 2004 and administrator since > 2006. He hit the ground running with the Experimentation team so fast that he > was still being interviewed when one of the team members wrote: “his > integration with the team has been so seamless that I’ve to remind myself a > few times that he is not yet a bona-fide employee.” > > His first official day actually was on December 3rd because my team pressured > me to start paying him. :-) He is working with the Experimentation team on > extensions (such as Onboarding[2]) and core functionality. Beyond that he’s > very interested in using tools to improve our development process, so I won’t > be surprised if Ori steals him so they can Pinky-and-the-Brain other projects > at the WMF. > > Matt lives in Philadelphia. He will be working remotely, but is working in > San Francisco all next week (starting Monday the 10th). > > Please join me in a belated welcome of Matthew Flaschen to the Wikimedia > Foundation. :-) > > Take care, > terry > > [1]: http://proveit.cc.gatech.edu/ > [2]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Onboarding_new_Wikipedians > > terry chay 최태리
Wow, we got the lead dev for ProveIt! That's so great! I welcome Matthew to the Wikimedia Foundation. -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
