Congratulations Yuvi, you rock!
On Sat, Nov 8, 2014 at 1:21 AM, Frances Hocutt <frances.hocutt(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Congratulations, Yuvi!
Frances
On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 8:55 AM, Mark Bergsma <mark(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hi all,
I'm very pleased to announce that as of this week, Yuvi Panda is part of
the Wikimedia Technical Operations team, to work on our Wikimedia Labs
infrastructure. Yuvi originally joined the Wikimedia Foundation Mobile
team
in December 2011, where he has been lead
development for the original
Wikipedia App and its rewrite, amongst many other projects.
Besides his work in Mobile, Yuvi has been volunteering for Ops work in
Wikimedia Labs for a long time now. One of the notable examples of his
work
is a seamlessly integrated Web proxy system that
allows public web
requests
from the Internet to be proxied to Labs instances
on private IPs without
requiring public IP addresses for each instance. This very user friendly
system, which he built on top of NGINX, LUA, redis, sqlite and the
OpenStack API, sees a lot of usage and has dramatically reduced the need
for Labs users to request (scarce) public IP address resources via a
manual
approval process.
Another example of his work that has made a big difference is the
initiation of the Labs-Vagrant project; bringing the virtues of the
Mediawiki:Vagrant project to Wikimedia Labs, and allowing anyone to
bring a
MediaWiki development environment up in Labs with
great ease. More
recently
Yuvi has been working on our much needed
infrastructure in Labs for
monitoring metrics (Graphite) and service availability (Shinken). We
expect
this will give us a lot more insight into the
internals and availability
of
software and services running in Wikimedia Labs
and its many projects,
and
we should be able to deploy it in Production as
well.
Of course all of this work didn't go unnoticed, and about half a year ago
we've asked Yuvi if he was interested to move to Ops. With his extensive
development experience and his demonstrated ability to join this with
solid
Ops work to create stable and highly useful
solutions, we think he's a
great fit for this role.
Yuvi recently had his VISA application accepted, and is planning to move
to
San Francisco in March 2015. Until then he will
be working with us
remotely
from India.
Please join me in congratulating Yuvi!
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Lead Operations Architect
Director of Technical Operations
Wikimedia Foundation
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*Pratik Lahoti*
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