Congrats both of you :-) On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 7:40 AM, Ken Snider <ksni...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hello! > > I'm extremely pleased to announce that we've had two promotions within the > Technical Operations team! > > Leslie Carr has been promoted to Senior Operations Engineer (Networking). As > many of you know, along with Mark, Leslie has been instrumental in securing > preferred rates and contracts with with connectivity providers and vendors on > the networking side of our infrastructure - in a world where human > connections are every bit as important as topographic ones, Leslie has > maintained a vast network of contacts to help ensure that we're receiving > competitive pricing, fair peering, and a plethora of other perks that come > part and parcel with maintaining solid relationships in the networking arena, > while also taking point on many of the technical aspects of our network > infrastructure as well. > > We're lucky to have her, and I look forward to working with her as the team > completes the setup of ULSFO and begins work on our next data-centre project. > > Ryan Lane has also been promoted to Senior Operations Engineer. Ryan has > served as the lead on the Labs project, a component of our infrastructure > that has become increasingly critical to projects both within WMF engineering > (with Beta Labs), as well as with various volunteer projects (via Tool Labs). > Ryan is about to head up the migration of this infrastructure from Tampa to > Ashburn as part of our plan to sunset the Tampa data-centre. > > Additionally, Ryan has also played a key role in several non-labs-related > projects, including most recently our HTTPS-as-default project, as well as > work on integrating git-deploy into the mediawiki deployment pipeline. Ryan's > work has been invaluable, and this promotion well-deserved. > > Thanks! > > --Ken. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
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