While promotions are fairly insular, I think the wikitech community would be happy to see this.
----- Forwarded message from Greg Grossmeier <[email protected]> ----- > Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2016 14:32:54 -0800 > From: Greg Grossmeier <[email protected]> > To: "WMF Staff (All)" <[email protected]> > Subject: Chad Horohoe promoted to Senior Software Engineer > > I'm more than pleased to announce that Chad Horohoe has been promoted to > Senior Software Engineer. > > For those of you who don't know Chad, let me give a quick run down: > > 2005 - Started as a volunteer editor[0] > 2008 - Became a MediaWiki developer[1] > 2010 - Started contracting for WMF[2] > 2012 - Became staff[3] > > Those are just the legal/contract related highlights; Chad has done a > lot to help make the Wikimedia technology stack better. Everything from > migrating us from SVN to Git, shepherding multiple RFCs, working with > our upstream projects (HHVM, Phabricator, Gerrit), helped bring us our > new search infrastructure (ElasticSearch), and is generally a great > person to ask when no one else knows the history. > > Please join me in congratulating Chad! > > Greg > > [0] First edit: > https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=prev&oldid=10508529 > [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/35764 > [2] Shortly after being stuck in Berlin due to Eyjafjallajökull > erupting. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T25223 > [3] Super secret ADP url, I couldn't find a good public reference. > > > -- > | Greg Grossmeier GPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E | > | identi.ca: @greg A18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D | ----- End forwarded message ----- -- | Greg Grossmeier GPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E | | identi.ca: @greg A18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D | _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
