Welcome Elliot, but... /antennae twitch
Voodoo? Secret account in the Caymans set up by Fundraising Tech? Wikishares? /ping Csteipp /ping Gbyrd Pine On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 2:25 PM, Terry Chay <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > It’s with great pleasure that I’m announcing that Elliott Eggleston will > be joining the Wikimedia Foundation as a Features Engineer in > Fundraising-Tech. > > Before joining us, Eliott was a senior software engineer at SAI Global[1], > and before that at Integrity Interactive (which was bought by SAI Global), > which means he’s been working diligently for seven years in enterprise > software development. Surprisingly, we didn’t hold this too much against > him.[2] ;-) > > His first official day is Monday June 16th where he will be in the office. > He is going to work with the Fundraising Tech team under Katie Horn and > along with Adam Wight and Sherah Smith on whatever voodoo there manages to > pay our salaries (and adds to secret account in the Caymans I had them set > up[3]), as Matthew Walker transitions to Services[4] this year. > > He received his Bachelor’s in Computer Science from Columbia in 2004 and > spends his down time writing an Android application[5], making a website to > map his music listening-bike route, playing Scrabble, and taking 3-d > pictures. He lives in Somerville, Massachusetts. > > Oh yeah, he’s also a childhood friend of Adam Wight. (Ask them to serenade > you with the pi song they invented as kids.) I don’t know whether I should > be excited to have a person whose disciplined work and even temper can talk > Adam back from the ledge, or to be worried that they might tag team another > thread on WMF-all demanding the Foundation to be a co-op. > > Please join me in a welcoming Elliott to the Wikimedia Foundation. :-) > > Take care, > Terry > > P.S. In keeping with Jared’s demand of a picture to accompany every new > hire announcement, here is one: > https://abs.twimg.com/sticky/default_profile_images/default_profile_3_200x200.png[5] > > [1] http://www.saiglobal.com > > [2] We only made him do four coding tests during the hiring process. > > [3] As a hedge if all my wikishares don't vest. > > [4] > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/Service_and_REST_API_team > > [5] Erik Möller is of the opinion working a Java Android app for > manipulating 3D fractals with a web export that works in latest versions of > Firefox on mobile devices with WebGL is not the kind of thing you do for > fun if you don’t enjoy complex challenges. I am of the opinion that Java > PERIOD itself is not the kind of thing you do for fun PERIOD. > > [6] Not sure this is any better: https://github.com/ejegg > > terry chay 최태리 > Director of Features Engineering > Wikimedia Foundation > “Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the > sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment.” > > p: +1 (415) 839-6885 x6832 > m: +1 (408) 480-8902 > e: [email protected] > i: http://terrychay.com/ > w: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Tychay > aim: terrychay > > _______________________________________________ > 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
