Thanks, Rob -- and welcome Aaron!
We are delighted to have you join our multimedia team for the next six months.
Your commendable gift of time and expertise is much appreciated. I am equally insipired by your generous offer, your impressive background -- as well as as our shared connections to french and swiss culture :)
We all look forward to working with you!
All the best,
Fabrice
On Nov 18, 2013, at 3:38 PM, Rob Lanphier wrote:
Hi everyone,
I'm thrilled to announce that Aaron Arcos has agreed to volunteer for the Wikimedia Foundation as a developer with our Multimedia team through May. Aaron most recently worked at Google Switzerland (from 2005 until August 2013), where he was a frontend software engineer and UX designer on several projects such as AdWords Template Center, SafeSearchLock, GMail Themes and the recent GCalendar redesign. He also served as a process and release master, in charge of defining, improving and enforcing their development, testing and release processes, and taught classes at Google about project management, user experience and Google culture.
He decided to leave Google, and to give back to the community in a number of ways, working for free for projects that do good for humanity (like us!) His first stop was at nairobits.com, a project that provides the economically-disadvantaged youth in Nairobi with web design and programming skills, teaching PHP and Javascript. He plans to return there in May. After that, he has other organizations that he'd like to work with.
Prior to Google, Aaron worked at IMTF.com in Switzerland, Techasi Ingénierie in Paris, Yahoo! and Electronics for Imaging in the Bay Area.
He earned his Masters in Computer Engineering at University of Washington and has a BS in Computer Engineering from UNAM in Mexico City.
Aaron will be visiting the San Francisco office while he's volunteering for us. He's "aarcos" on Freenode (and will often be on #wikimedia-multimedia), and his email address is aarcos.wiki@gmail.com. Welcome Aaron!
Rob
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