Agreed! Congrats! > Awesome Yuvi. Congratulations! :D > >> On Nov 6, 2014, at 10:47 PM, Danese Cooper <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Woot! Way to go, Yuvi! >> >> D >> >> On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 4:55 PM, Mark Bergsma <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I'm very pleased to announce that as of this week, Yuvi Panda is part of >>> the Wikimedia Technical Operations team, to work on our Wikimedia Labs >>> infrastructure. Yuvi originally joined the Wikimedia Foundation Mobile team >>> in December 2011, where he has been lead development for the original >>> Wikipedia App and its rewrite, amongst many other projects. >>> >>> Besides his work in Mobile, Yuvi has been volunteering for Ops work in >>> Wikimedia Labs for a long time now. One of the notable examples of his work >>> is a seamlessly integrated Web proxy system that allows public web requests >>> from the Internet to be proxied to Labs instances on private IPs without >>> requiring public IP addresses for each instance. This very user friendly >>> system, which he built on top of NGINX, LUA, redis, sqlite and the >>> OpenStack API, sees a lot of usage and has dramatically reduced the need >>> for Labs users to request (scarce) public IP address resources via a manual >>> approval process. >>> >>> Another example of his work that has made a big difference is the >>> initiation of the Labs-Vagrant project; bringing the virtues of the >>> Mediawiki:Vagrant project to Wikimedia Labs, and allowing anyone to bring a >>> MediaWiki development environment up in Labs with great ease. More recently >>> Yuvi has been working on our much needed infrastructure in Labs for >>> monitoring metrics (Graphite) and service availability (Shinken). We expect >>> this will give us a lot more insight into the internals and availability of >>> software and services running in Wikimedia Labs and its many projects, and >>> we should be able to deploy it in Production as well. >>> >>> Of course all of this work didn't go unnoticed, and about half a year ago >>> we've asked Yuvi if he was interested to move to Ops. With his extensive >>> development experience and his demonstrated ability to join this with solid >>> Ops work to create stable and highly useful solutions, we think he's a >>> great fit for this role. >>> >>> Yuvi recently had his VISA application accepted, and is planning to move to >>> San Francisco in March 2015. Until then he will be working with us remotely >>> from India. >>> >>> Please join me in congratulating Yuvi! >>> >>> -- >>> Lead Operations Architect >>> Director of Technical Operations >>> Wikimedia Foundation
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