Welcome, Shahyar!!! It's really fun that recent arrivals include folks from two places where I really feel I belong--Montreal and Mexico. Now, if only they were a 30-minute subway ride away from each other... :)

P.S. Montreal is better than Toronto. P.P.S. Carnitas are better than poutine.

On 09/01/14 10:14, Moiz Syed wrote:

Theres no good poutine here, nothing! Trust me i've tried it :(

Also, Montreal is nice and all, but Toronto is better :p

Welcome!

On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 3:18 PM, Jared Zimmerman <jared.zimmerman@wikimedia.org mailto:jared.zimmerman@wikimedia.org> wrote:

Welcome Shahyar, there is a place in the Mission with poutine
called Zoe's I've not tried it since I'm veg, but I'm sure its not
as good as Smoke's in Toronto. Glad to have you on board.

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On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 8:19 PM, Andrew Garrett
<agarrett@wikimedia.org <mailto:agarrett@wikimedia.org>> wrote:

    Welcome, Shahyar.

    I hope you'll forgive me for the state of the Flow JS, for
    which I'm largely responsible ;-)

    Looking forward to working with you, but I must side with
    Rachel on the anti-poutine brigade.


    On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 6:17 AM, Terry Chay
    <tchay@wikimedia.org <mailto:tchay@wikimedia.org>> wrote:

        Suggested photo to attach with email:
        http://www.hotflick.net/flicks/2010_Scott_Pilgrim_vs_the_World/010SVW_Jason_Schwartzman_001.jpg

        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
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        Wikimedia Foundation
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        commitment.*”

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