Greetings all,
I'm pleased to announce that the mobile department has two new staff members. Yuri Astrakhan & Adam Baso join as sr. software developers on the mobile partner team. In this role Yuri and Adam will support projects like Wikipedia Zero, SMS/USSD, and J2ME to further the reach of our projects in geographic areas that have both financial and technical impediments to access Wikipedia. They will be working closely with Kul and Dan from the global development group.
Yuri has been heavily involved in Wikipedia-related projects 2005-2007 developing the API framework and querying subsystem, contributing to pywikibot code, and making millions of changes as yurikbot, while at the same time working as a software consultant for several large banks. In 2008 Yuri joined a small hedge-fund to lead the development of an automated trading platform. While there, Yuri continued various open source projects such as time-series database (timeseriesdb).
After over five years, Yuri has rejoined the MediaWiki community and will be working for us from New York.
Adam spent the past seven years working in the field of information security, specializing in application security, identity management, and encryption in the retail, government, and banking sectors. Adam led the OWASP Minneapolis-Saint Paul chapter for a couple of years, and proudly organized the OWASP AppSec USA 2011 conference. Adam and his wife are relocating to San Francisco from Minneapolis-Saint Paul, and they look forward to the opportunity to live in such a thriving software-friendly community.
The mobile group is excited and proud to welcome both Yuri & Adam as sr. engineers to the partner team.
This completes the team and allows them to work aggressively to reach our 4 billion page target through outreach projects like Wikipedia Zero.
Please join me in welcoming Yuri and Adam to the Wikimedia Foundation!
--tomasz
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 10:29 AM, Tomasz Finc tfinc@wikimedia.org wrote:
I'm pleased to announce that the mobile department has two new staff members. Yuri Astrakhan & Adam Baso join as sr. software developers on the mobile partner team.
Welcome on board, guys. Really looking forward to the next steps with WP Zero. :-)
Erik
On 03/18/2013 01:29 PM, Tomasz Finc wrote:
Greetings all,
I'm pleased to announce that the mobile department has two new staff members. Yuri Astrakhan & Adam Baso join as sr. software developers on the mobile partner team. In this role Yuri and Adam will support projects like Wikipedia Zero, SMS/USSD, and J2ME to further the reach of our projects in geographic areas that have both financial and technical impediments to access Wikipedia. They will be working closely with Kul and Dan from the global development group.
Yuri has been heavily involved in Wikipedia-related projects 2005-2007 developing the API framework and querying subsystem, contributing to pywikibot code, and making millions of changes as yurikbot, while at the same time working as a software consultant for several large banks. In 2008 Yuri joined a small hedge-fund to lead the development of an automated trading platform. While there, Yuri continued various open source projects such as time-series database (timeseriesdb).
After over five years, Yuri has rejoined the MediaWiki community and will be working for us from New York.
Yay, another New York City person! :-) And I'm also excited to have helped bring one of our experts from the Wikimedia community to WMF.
Adam spent the past seven years working in the field of information security, specializing in application security, identity management, and encryption in the retail, government, and banking sectors. Adam led the OWASP Minneapolis-Saint Paul chapter for a couple of years, and proudly organized the OWASP AppSec USA 2011 conference. Adam and his wife are relocating to San Francisco from Minneapolis-Saint Paul, and they look forward to the opportunity to live in such a thriving software-friendly community.
For those of you who haven't heard of http://owasp.org/ it's very bnat -- an effort to improve the security of all web-based applications through open source tools, materials, and trainings. It's great to have another security expert onstaff!
The mobile group is excited and proud to welcome both Yuri & Adam as sr. engineers to the partner team.
This completes the team and allows them to work aggressively to reach our 4 billion page target through outreach projects like Wikipedia Zero.
Please join me in welcoming Yuri and Adam to the Wikimedia Foundation!
--tomasz
Welcome, Adam and Yuri -- we're lucky to have you!
On 03/18/2013 01:29 PM, Tomasz Finc wrote:
Greetings all,
I'm pleased to announce that the mobile department has two new staff members. Yuri Astrakhan & Adam Baso join as sr. software developers on the mobile partner team.
Welcome! It's great to have both of you.
Matt Flaschen
great news. :)
* -- **Nasir Khan Saikat* http://profiles.google.com/nasir8891 www.nasirkhn.com
On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 10:01 AM, Matthew Flaschen mflaschen@wikimedia.orgwrote:
On 03/18/2013 01:29 PM, Tomasz Finc wrote:
Greetings all,
I'm pleased to announce that the mobile department has two new staff members. Yuri Astrakhan & Adam Baso join as sr. software developers on the mobile partner team.
Welcome! It's great to have both of you.
Matt Flaschen
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