Congrats! Ori - as Brion puts it well - welcome to the hotseat :-) -Alolita
On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 7:54 AM, Brion Vibber <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- Alolita Sharma Director of Engineering Language Engineering (i18n/L10n) Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
