Hello everyone, It’s with great pleasure that I’m announcing that Erik Bernhardson has joined the Wikimedia Foundation as a Features Engineer.
Before joining us, Erik was a web developer and operational jack-of-all-trades at Cite Media/Maverick Media which is a custom Symfony2 CRM working on “what the internet is for”[1]. There he worked on MySQL, Redis, Graylog2, ElasticSearch, Nginx w/PHP-FPM integration, phpUnderControl and capifony. He integrated dozens of different payment processors (shh… don’t tell FR-tech) and automated micro-site rollout for the clients using PHP integration into Chef. Six years ago, he became a PHP developer when he found out, while hacking his DVR that it had a PHP-based webserver. He still likes to do a lot of open-source work[2], and we found him because he was patching HipHop to add namespace support. His first official day is today (April 22). He is going to work with the Editor Engagement team on Messaging, and any other stuff we can throw at him until he feels sufficiently overwhelmed. I’m still trying to figure out how to verbally distinguish between my boss and him (suggestions welcome!). Erik lives in Campbell, CA, but is strangely okay with commuting to San Francisco all the time. He likes to drive his motorcycle down to Monterrey on weekends. Please join me in a welcoming Erik to the Wikimedia Foundation. :-) Take care, Terry [1]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWEjvCRPrCo [2]: https://github.com/ebernhardson terry chay 최태리 Director of Features Engineering Wikimedia Foundation “Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment.” p: +1 (415) 839-6885 x6832 m: +1 (408) 480-8902 e: [email protected] i: http://terrychay.com/ w: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Tychay aim: terrychay _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
