Re: [Wikitech-l] Faidon Liambotis promoted to Principal Operations Engineer

Awesome! Congratulations! On Feb 10, 2014 2:48 PM, "Mark Bergsma" <mark(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: Principal Operations Engineer. 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: director for consistent URL hashing to backends in Varnish. Let me help you get that upstreamed!" solved our scalability issues with Puppet's external (Nagios) resources, amongst other things. 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. 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. promotion. involved with almost everything. Fortunately that is a good fit for his new role. :)