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Hello everyone,
It’s with great pleasure that I’m announcing that Shahyar G(whatever)[1] has joined the Wikimedia Foundation as Software Engineer in Features Engineering.
Before joining us, Shahyar worked as an engineer at DeviantART[2] developing both front-end and back-end software, with a focus on analytics. He was also the lead API engineer at ViaFoura and web developer for a company that works on what the Internet is really for[3]. He’s a long-time Wikipedian (he collaborated on two Good Articles[4]) and will be invaluable in his new role working with the Core Features Team, ensuring that Flow is full of parallax scrolling unicorns.
Shahyar lives in Montreal and claims to have come to Canada for the poutine and never left, which pretty much summarizes his life. He is trilingual in English, French, and Persian. When he’s not writing JS, he’s drinking whisky to cope with the fact that he’s not writing JS (preferably Yamazaki 12 year), travelling, and practicing his beatific expression for avatar photos.
His first day is today! [5] He’ll be working remotely but will be visiting the office during the architecture summit, so keep an eye on your fries!
Please join me in welcoming Shahyar to the Wikimedia Foundation!
[1] [[User:SG]] [2] http://shahyarg.deviantart.com/ [3] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKNnwLL991c [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrus_the_Great and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reza_Shah [5] I know what you're thinking, but the answer is most of this got written by the Core Features team so my record of tardy announcement e-mails remains unblemished.
And because Jared keeps demanding I include a photo of our new hires:
(Trust me, this is reference photo.)
terry chay 최태리 Director of Features Engineering Wikimedia Foundation “Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment.”
p: +1 (415) 839-6885 x6832 m: +1 (408) 480-8902 e: tchay@wikimedia.org i: http://terrychay.com/ w: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Tychay aim: terrychay
On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 2:17 PM, Terry Chay tchay@wikimedia.org wrote:
Shahyar G(whatever)
XD
Welcome aboard!
*-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science
Nice to have a Persian speaking person on the development team. Wish you can help us make right to left wikis much better. Welcome :D
2014/1/6 Tyler Romeo tylerromeo@gmail.com
On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 2:17 PM, Terry Chay tchay@wikimedia.org wrote:
Shahyar G(whatever)
XD
Welcome aboard!
*-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Welcome Shahyar! Hope to see you contribute to the Language Eng team too :D
Best, Alolita
Alolita Sharma आलोलिता शर्मा Director of Engineering Internationalization / Localization Wikimedia Foundation
On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 12:41 PM, Pouyan popeno2003@gmail.com wrote:
Nice to have a Persian speaking person on the development team. Wish you can help us make right to left wikis much better. Welcome :D
2014/1/6 Tyler Romeo tylerromeo@gmail.com
On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 2:17 PM, Terry Chay tchay@wikimedia.org wrote:
Shahyar G(whatever)
XD
Welcome aboard!
*-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
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On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 11:17 AM, Terry Chay tchay@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hello everyone,
It’s with great pleasure that I’m announcing that Shahyar G(whatever)[1] has joined the Wikimedia Foundation as Software Engineer in Features Engineering.
Before joining us, Shahyar worked as an engineer at DeviantART[2] developing both front-end and back-end software, with a focus on analytics. He was also the lead API engineer at ViaFoura and web developer for a company that works on what the Internet is really for[3]. He’s a long-time Wikipedian (he collaborated on two Good Articles[4]) and will be invaluable in his new role working with the Core Features Team, ensuring that Flow is full of parallax scrolling unicorns.
Shahyar lives in Montreal and claims to have come to Canada for the poutine and never left, which pretty much summarizes his life. He is trilingual in English, French, and Persian. When he’s not writing JS, he’s drinking whisky to cope with the fact that he’s not writing JS (preferably Yamazaki 12 year), travelling, and practicing his beatific expression for avatar photos.
His first day is today! [5] He’ll be working remotely but will be visiting the office during the architecture summit, so keep an eye on your fries!
Please join me in welcoming Shahyar to the Wikimedia Foundation!
Welcome! Very glad you've joined us.
Also please excuse Terry's weird email. He is just like that. ;-)
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