Awesome! Congratulations!
On Feb 10, 2014 2:48 PM, "Mark Bergsma" <mark(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
I'm pleased to announce that Faidon Liambotis has been promoted to
Principal
Operations Engineer.
From the very first week he was hired, Faidon has expressed great
interest in
understanding and improving the complete infrastructure stack
of the Wikimedia Foundation, covering not only the domain of the Operations
team, but far beyond. I distinctly remember how, a few days after he was
hired (which at the time, I didn't take any part in), he approached me for
the first time on IRC and said:
"Hi Mark! Nice to meet you. I see you just wrote this nice new
director for
consistent URL hashing to backends in Varnish. Let me help you
get that upstreamed!"
I believe in that same week he fixed some bugs in our nginx setup and
solved our
scalability issues with Puppet's external (Nagios) resources,
amongst other things.
Ever since, Faidon has taken on many projects, large and small, and
completed them
in ways going far beyond his duties. He has spent enormous
amounts of time reviewing other people's patch sets, discussing their
ideas, and mentoring them in their work. He's instrumental in coordinating
efforts across multiple groups and making sure everyone arrives at the best
possible solution. In discussions he's noticed for being analytical and
methodical, and calmly working towards a common goal. This is reflected in
his architecting work too, where he contributes with sensible ideas and a
great knowledge of the open source software and solutions landscape.
Outside of Wikimedia, Faidon has been active in Debian and other open
source
projects since 2004. He cares deeply about our use of open source
solutions and helping our software extensions get upstreamed and made
available to others.
I think it's only appropriate that we recognize his role with this
promotion.
The biggest problem we may have with him is that he works too much and is
involved
with almost everything. Fortunately that is a good fit for his new
role. :)
Please join me in congratulating Faidon.
--
Mark Bergsma <mark(a)wikimedia.org>
Lead Operations Architect
Acting Director of Technical Operations
Wikimedia Foundation
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