Woohoo! I've been doing a lot of code review with Ori lately; he's doing some awesome work.
Congrats Ori, and welcome to the hotseat. :) -- brion On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Rob Lanphier <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm excited to announce that Ori Livneh will be moving into Platform > Engineering as Senior Performance Engineer. This work is riffing off > of the work that he's done with the Growth (nee E3) team, where a big > part of his job was instrumenting new features to measure their impact > on editor retention. > > In his new role, Ori will be responsible for many aspects of site > performance. There are a couple of different things one can optimize > for when optimizing site performance: hardware cost or end-user > experience. The best optimizations do both, but for some > optimizations you need to choose which is more important (e.g. buying > new hardware in order to increase responsiveness). Ori will mainly be > focusing on the end user experience, and will be doing so in an > end-to-end fashion (even looking at rendering performance on end-user > machines). > > Ori's day-to-day tasks will involve instrumenting the site such that > developers can see the impact of their work on site responsiveness. > He'll also work closely with our TechOps team, making recommendations > on site configuration that can have a big impact. He's also going to > spearhead the investigation and likely implementation of > performance-related technology on our cluster. There will also be a > lot of smaller changes that it'll make sense for Ori just to tackle > rather than waiting for someone else to do them, so he'll likely spend > a chunk of his time doing that as well. > > Ori has done tremendous work in the year and a half he's been here in > bootstrapping the Growth team, and we're really excited to see what he > will achieve in this new role. Welcome, Ori! > > 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
