I am pleased to announce that Guillaume Lederrey joins WMF this week as Operation Engineer in the Discovery team. Guillaume will work closely with our operations team to support Elastic Search, Maps, and WDQS along with strengthening our experience with Java based services.

Guillaume will be working remotely from Lausanne (Switzerland) where he lives with his 4 month old son and his mother. Guillaume has previous experience with non profits, having worked for a year in Rwanda for an NGO. Working to make the world a better place is what motivates him to join WMF.

For the last 5 years, Guillaume has been working for Nespresso, taking care of all things from performance and stability of the e-commerce and backend stacks, challenging agile practices and introducing Puppet as the main configuration tool to managing build tools, improving automated code quality and bringing coffee to his coworkers.

On his free time, Guillaume is the maintainer of JmxTrans [1], the missing piece to monitor JVM based applications.

Guillaume can be found on IRC under the nickname 'gehel'.

Please join me in welcoming him!

--tomasz

[1]: https://github.com/jmxtrans/jmxtrans