On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 2:46 PM, Terry Chay <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello everyone, > > I’m pleased to announce Rob Moen is moving from the VisualEditor team to > the Growth team. > > In Growth, Rob will fill the team's third full-time engineer position, > joining Matthew Flaschen, Sam Smith, and Andrew Russell Green (who's > collaborating with Growth on the Campaigns extension). With Rob's help, the > team will be able to move faster on projects like its experiments acquiring > anonymous editors and building features for new article creators. > > Rob has done amazing work on VisualEditor. Starting with when the team > specifically requested him from Editor Engagement two years ago to work on > the user interface features such as toolbars and inspectors and finishing > up with mobile integration and major UploadWizard media integration > changes. > > He’ll bring that deep knowledge of VisualEditor, OOJS, and OOUI to > projects focused on experimentation and growth in the editor community. > Besides being a rare combination of front-end and full-stack engineer with > extensive MediaWiki experience, he’s also the only engineer in Growth in > the same timezone as Steven Walling and the design team members. > > VisualEditor team is now looking for two candidates for open engineering > positions, one of which will fill Rob's spot on the team. Check out the job > description[0] especially if you can help refer someone. > > Take care, > > terry > I'm super happy to have Rob join us on Growth, obviously. :-) +1 to what Sumana said. I think it's really healthy that in WMF engineering, we've figured out how to let engineers, product managers, and others switch teams gracefully and with minimal fuss. It's a credit to VE team that they were so open to this idea. Also: thank you to Emily in recruiting. It's been a long search for two engineering candidates to fill the spots previously held on Growth by Ori and S Page. We may not have ended up hiring someone externally for Rob's position, but she has put in a huge effort to help teams like ours, and will no doubt do the same for VisualEditor now too. -- Steven Walling, Product Manager https://wikimediafoundation.org/ _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
