[Wikitech-l] Arlo Breault joins Wikimedia as Features Engineer

Hello everyone, It’s with great pleasure that I’m announcing that Arlo Breault joined the Wikimedia Foundation as a Features Engineer. Note the past tense. :-D Before joining us, Arlo worked as an independent open-source software developer. He’s held various contracts at the Tor Project[1], DuckDuckGo[2], Storify[3], and Right & Democracy[4], amongst others, where he’s worked on everything from novel censorship circumvention systems to navigable visualizations of the web graph. I first found out about him in April of 2012, but we only managed to find a fit a year ago in July of 2013 as an international contractor. His first official day as a member of our staff was July 7, 2014. I tell myself that announcing Arlo and Marc together is the reason I’ve been tardy on these announcements. :-D Along with Marcoil (previous e-mail), the two of them work with Subbu Sastry and C. Scott Ananian to form the Parsoid team, which provides the back-end voodoo that turns your VisualEditing into wikitext and back again.[5] Arlo studied physics and mathematics at McGill in Montréal, and now lives in Victoria, BC. He has been spending a lot of his free time lately looking at cryptographic protocols, contributing OTR.js[6] to Cryptocat[7], a privacy preserving chat application. He’s otherwise typically Canadian, enjoying his maple syrup, hockey, and reading by the warm glow of a fire. Please join me in a belated welcome of Arlo to the Wikimedia Foundation. :-) Take care, Terry P.S. In keeping with Jared’s demand of a picture to accompany every new hire announcement, here is one: https://avatars0.githubusercontent.com/u/123708?v=2&s=400 [1] https://www.torproject.org/ [2] https://duckduckgo.com/ [3] https://storify.com/ [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Centre_for_Human_Rights_and_Dem… [5] https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/03/04/parsoid-how-wikipedia-catches-up-with… [6] https://github.com/arlolra/otr [7] https://crypto.cat/ terry chay 최태리 Director of Features Engineering Wikimedia Foundation “Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment.” p: +1 (415) 839-6885 x6832 m: +1 (408) 480-8902 e: tchay(a)wikimedia.org i: http://terrychay.com/ w: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Tychay aim: terrychay