Hello everyone,
It’s with great pleasure that I’m announcing that Erik Bernhardson has joined the
Wikimedia Foundation as a Features Engineer.
Before joining us, Erik was a web developer and operational jack-of-all-trades at Cite
Media/Maverick Media which is a custom Symfony2 CRM working on “what the internet is
for”[1]. There he worked on MySQL, Redis, Graylog2, ElasticSearch, Nginx w/PHP-FPM
integration, phpUnderControl and capifony. He integrated dozens of different payment
processors (shh… don’t tell FR-tech) and automated micro-site rollout for the clients
using PHP integration into Chef.
Six years ago, he became a PHP developer when he found out, while hacking his DVR that it
had a PHP-based webserver. He still likes to do a lot of open-source work[2], and we found
him because he was patching HipHop to add namespace support.
His first official day is today (April 22). He is going to work with the Editor Engagement
team on Messaging, and any other stuff we can throw at him until he feels sufficiently
overwhelmed. I’m still trying to figure out how to verbally distinguish between my boss
and him (suggestions welcome!).
Erik lives in Campbell, CA, but is strangely okay with commuting to San Francisco all the
time. He likes to drive his motorcycle down to Monterrey on weekends.
Please join me in a welcoming Erik to the Wikimedia Foundation. :-)
Take care,
Terry
[1]:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWEjvCRPrCo
[2]:
https://github.com/ebernhardson
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