Hi everyone,
I'd like to welcome Dan Duvall to Wikimedia Foundation in his role as
Automation Engineer in our Release and QA group. Dan comes to us most
recently from Giant Rabbit, where he worked for a few months doing web
development consulting, and before that, at National Novel Writing
Month (NaNoWriMo), where he lead their engineering work. One big
accomplishment from his tenure at NaNoWriMo was porting their website
code from Drupal to Ruby on Rails.
Dan will be working closely with Chris McMahon and Željko Filipin on
improving our browser test automation. Our browser test work is
largely written in Ruby, and of course, large portions of MediaWiki
are written in PHP. Thus, Dan's deep experience both with Ruby and PHP
will be incredibly helpful in this role. We also anticipate his Ruby
knowledge will come in quite handy in other pockets of our system that
rely on Ruby skills (e.g. our Vagrant-based developer test environment
system)
Dan tells me this is by far the biggest place he's ever worked, so
please bear with him as he learns to navigate our expansive office
campus and figures out the intricacies of our intraoffice shuttle
system :-)
Welcome Dan!
Rob