Hello everyone,
It’s with great pleasure that I’m announcing that Subramanya Sastry is joining the
Wikimedia Foundation as a Senior Features Software Engineer. Initially, Subbu (as he is
known by his peers) will work with the Visual Editor team to assist on building a new
Parser. Maybe later we can get him interested in other architectural and structural
performance engineering. ;-)
Before joining us, Subbu worked with fellow WMFer, Fabrice Florin, as the engineering
manager and lead engineer at NewsTrust <http://newstrust.net/>, a nonprofit social
news network devoted to good journalism. More recently (and more relevantly), he has been
contributing to JRuby <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JRuby> to build a
next-generation higher performance runtime
<http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2012/oss-grant-roundup-jruby-runtime/>. He has his
Ph.D. in CS from U. Wisconsin-Madison and his Bachelors from IIT in Kanpur.
Beyond that, he enjoys doing a lot of nonprofit and volunteer work. He’s worked at the
Environment Support Group in Bangalore <http://esgindia.org> and with Asha for
Education <http://ashanet.org/>, the Friends of River Narmada
<http://narmada.org/ , and the India Institute for Critical Action Centre in Movement
<http://cacim.net/> which focuses on critical engagement with social movements and
their organizational politics. Most recently, he has been volunteering his time with
Center for Earth and Energy Democracy <http://ceed.org>.
Subbu comes highly recommended by his peers, who describe him as an outstanding and
versatile engineer, as well as a wonderful team player. More importantly, he is deeply
committed to social change — not just to technology for its own sake.
He enjoys growing vegetables, cooking food, live music, movies on big screens, books,
armchair philosophising and badminton.
His first official day was May 14th (I rushed the paperwork so Gabriel could get his hands
on him :-)), and he will be working remotely from Minneapolis, MN. (He's reading this
mailing list as we speak so I haven't had time to scrub all the awful things we said
about him. Sorry!)
Please join me in welcoming Subbu to the Wikimedia Foundation. :-)
Take care,
Terry
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