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From: kmaher(a)wikimedia.org
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 10:49:55 -0700
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Subject: [Wikimedia Announcements] [PRESS RELEASE] The Wikimedia Foundation hires Damon
Sicore as Vice President of Engineering
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Wikimedia Foundation hires Damon Sicore as Vice President of Engineering
New role strengthens Foundation’s commitment to excellence in engineeringThe Wikimedia
Foundation is pleased to announce that Damon Sicore will be joining the Foundation in the
newly created role of Vice President of Engineering. Damon brings nearly two decades of
engineering and product experience to Wikimedia, the non-profit organization responsible
for Wikipedia -- the world’s fifth most visited website, serving half a billion readers
every month.Damon will manage the Foundation’s engineering team dedicated to ensuring the
development, scale, and reliability of Wikimedia’s technical architecture. Before joining
Wikimedia he spent six years at Mozilla Corporation, three of them as Vice President of
Engineering, where he led a team of more than 600 open source software engineers,
technical leads, managers, and directors in developing Mozilla Firefox, the Mozilla open
source platform, Firefox for Android and Firefox OS. Under his leadership Mozilla
delivered some of their most significant browser releases and launched Mozilla’s entry
into mobile with Firefox OS.“Damon has extensive experience with high-scale, open source
technologies and an intrinsic understanding of our mission and values,” said Wikimedia
Foundation Executive Director, Lila Tretikov. “He brings organizational and scaling skills
necessary to improve and innovate for our communities of contributors and the next
generation of knowledge seekers.”Most recently, Damon led engineering at Edmodo, an
emerging platform for sharing educational content for teachers and students, where he
oversaw and grew the company’s web, platform, and mobile engineering, security, IT
operations, support, and QA efforts."The Wikimedia projects are front and center in
the fight for free knowledge, and that’s why I am here,” said Damon Sicore. “I'm
looking forward to challenging us to ensure our software is up to the task. We need to
move fast and produce the high quality software and services our users will love. It's
what the world expects and deserves from us.”Damon joins the Wikimedia Foundation as part
of planned growth of the organization’s technical capacity, first announced in November
2012. Erik Moeller, who has filled the role of Vice President of Product and Engineering
since 2011, will continue to focus on product in the role of Vice President of Product and
Strategy.About the Wikimedia
Foundationhttps://wikimediafoundation.org
https://blog.wikimedia.org/The Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit organization that
operates Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Across its 287 language versions, Wikipedia
contains more than 32 million articles. Every month, roughly 80,000 active volunteers
contribute to Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects. According to comScore Media
Metrix, the projects operated by the Wikimedia Foundation receive 413 million unique
visitors per month on desktop alone, making them the fifth-most popular web property
worldwide (July 2014). Based in San Francisco, California, the Wikimedia Foundation is an
audited, 501(c)(3) charity that is funded primarily through donations and grants.Wikimedia
Foundation Press Contact:Katherine Maher+1 415-839-6885 ext
6633katherinewikimedia.org
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