While promotions are fairly insular, I think the wikitech community would be happy to see this.

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Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2016 14:32:54 -0800 From: Greg Grossmeier greg@wikimedia.org To: "WMF Staff (All)" wmfall@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Chad Horohoe promoted to Senior Software Engineer

I'm more than pleased to announce that Chad Horohoe has been promoted to Senior Software Engineer.

For those of you who don't know Chad, let me give a quick run down:

2005 - Started as a volunteer editor[0] 2008 - Became a MediaWiki developer[1] 2010 - Started contracting for WMF[2] 2012 - Became staff[3]

Those are just the legal/contract related highlights; Chad has done a lot to help make the Wikimedia technology stack better. Everything from migrating us from SVN to Git, shepherding multiple RFCs, working with our upstream projects (HHVM, Phabricator, Gerrit), helped bring us our new search infrastructure (ElasticSearch), and is generally a great person to ask when no one else knows the history.

Please join me in congratulating Chad!

Greg

[0] First edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=prev&oldid=10508529 [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/35764 [2] Shortly after being stuck in Berlin due to Eyjafjallajökull erupting. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T25223 [3] Super secret ADP url, I couldn't find a good public reference.

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