Welcome, Erik - great to have you here! As a naming system that's helpful when people have common forenames beginning with a vowel, you can always use <first initial of surname><forename> as a name - there's Merik, Berik and Zerik. Worked at a previous workplace of mine. ;-)
J. (Blessed with a name that doesn't start with a vowel, at least in English.) On 22 April 2013 16:00, Terry Chay <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Wmfall mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wmfall > -- James D. Forrester Product Manager, VisualEditor Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. [email protected] | @jdforrester _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
