On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 11:17 AM, Terry Chay <tc...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Hello everyone, > > It’s with great pleasure that I’m announcing that Shahyar G(whatever)[1] > has joined the Wikimedia Foundation as Software Engineer in Features > Engineering. > > Before joining us, Shahyar worked as an engineer at DeviantART[2] > developing both front-end and back-end software, with a focus on analytics. > He was also the lead API engineer at ViaFoura and web developer for a > company that works on what the Internet is really for[3]. He’s a long-time > Wikipedian (he collaborated on two Good Articles[4]) and will be invaluable > in his new role working with the Core Features Team, ensuring that Flow is > full of parallax scrolling unicorns. > > Shahyar lives in Montreal and claims to have come to Canada for the > poutine and never left, which pretty much summarizes his life. He is > trilingual in English, French, and Persian. When he’s not writing JS, he’s > drinking whisky to cope with the fact that he’s not writing JS (preferably > Yamazaki 12 year), travelling, and practicing his beatific expression for > avatar photos. > > His first day is today! [5] He’ll be working remotely but will be visiting > the office during the architecture summit, so keep an eye on your fries! > > Please join me in welcoming Shahyar to the Wikimedia Foundation! > Welcome! Very glad you've joined us. Also please excuse Terry's weird email. He is just like that. ;-) -- Steven Walling, Product Manager https://wikimediafoundation.org/ _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
