New subject: Sherah Smith joins Wikimedia as Fundraising Engineer in Features

13 Dec 2013

Hello everyone,

It’s with great pleasure that I’m announcing that Sherah Smith[1] has joined the Wikimedia
Foundation as Fundraising Engineer in Features.

Before joining us, Sherah was a full stack software engineer at Hackbright Academy[2]
helping write a lot of their curriculum development and engineering fellowship software.
She also did a brief stint as a front-end developer at yerdle.com on some of their
campaigns. She was a referral through Ryan Kaldari, and managed some time during small
amounts of her super busy schedule at Hackbright to talk to the FR-tech team and see how
truly awesome they are. Long ago (2010), she received her B.S. in computer science at
Evergreen State College.

Sherah will be working in Fundraising Tech as a front-end engineer. So expect some
amazingly cool visualization stuff coming from the annual fundraiser, followed by super
less annoying payment processing pages, and such. She also will bug you about
opportunities to learn more stuff here.

When she isn’t making Fundraising awesome, she can be found writing and performing comedy
in various forms, reading excruciatingly depressing novels, and hiking all around the Bay
Area. She is also perpetually hacking on things, especially ridiculous apps and games in
MeteorJS. Her spirit animal is the pizzacat.

Oh, by the way, don’t be an idiot like me and pronounce her name correctly—it’s not
sher-a, but she-ra, “just like the princess of power.”[5]

As you have guessed from my usual tardiness, her first official day was Monday, December
9. I know you’re thinking, “Only a few days late? What is going on Terry?” Well there is a
running pool that Erik has a little spreadsheet in his computer brain of his to pester us
Directors to actually announce the staff we hire and I finally figured it’s useless to
procrastinate in order to fight the Man.

Please join me in a belated welcome of Sherah Smith to the Wikimedia Foundation. :-)

Take care,
Terry

[1]: http://sherahsmith.com/
[2]: http://www.hackbrightacademy.com/
[3]: https://yerdle.com/
[4]: http://sherahsmith.tumblr.com/
[5]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/She-Ra

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