Hello everyone,
It’s with great pleasure that I’m announcing that Erik Bernhardson has joined the Wikimedia Foundation as a Features Engineer.
Before joining us, Erik was a web developer and operational jack-of-all-trades at Cite Media/Maverick Media which is a custom Symfony2 CRM working on “what the internet is for”[1]. There he worked on MySQL, Redis, Graylog2, ElasticSearch, Nginx w/PHP-FPM integration, phpUnderControl and capifony. He integrated dozens of different payment processors (shh… don’t tell FR-tech) and automated micro-site rollout for the clients using PHP integration into Chef.
Six years ago, he became a PHP developer when he found out, while hacking his DVR that it had a PHP-based webserver. He still likes to do a lot of open-source work[2], and we found him because he was patching HipHop to add namespace support.
His first official day is today (April 22). He is going to work with the Editor Engagement team on Messaging, and any other stuff we can throw at him until he feels sufficiently overwhelmed. I’m still trying to figure out how to verbally distinguish between my boss and him (suggestions welcome!).
Erik lives in Campbell, CA, but is strangely okay with commuting to San Francisco all the time. He likes to drive his motorcycle down to Monterrey on weekends.
Please join me in a welcoming Erik to the Wikimedia Foundation. :-)
Take care, Terry
[1]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWEjvCRPrCo [2]: https://github.com/ebernhardson
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On 04/22/2013 07:00 PM, Terry Chay wrote:
Hello everyone,
It’s with great pleasure that I’m announcing that Erik Bernhardson has joined the Wikimedia Foundation as a Features Engineer.
Welcome! You've got a really interesting background and I look forward to working with you.
Matt Flaschen
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 11:00 PM, Terry Chay tchay@wikimedia.org wrote:
His first official day is today (April 22). He is going to work with the Editor Engagement team on Messaging, and any other stuff we can throw at him until he feels sufficiently overwhelmed. I’m still trying to figure out how to verbally distinguish between my boss and him (suggestions welcome!).
What do you do with Erik Zachte?
Please join me in a welcoming Erik to the Wikimedia Foundation. :-)
Welcome!
-Jeremy
Hmm... "integrated dozens of different payment processors (shh… don’t tell FR-tech)", you say? /me nonchalantly checks to see if Amazon sells comically large butterfly nets
Welcome! :)
-Katie Fundraising Tech Lead
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 12:16 AM, Jeremy Baron jeremy@tuxmachine.comwrote:
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 11:00 PM, Terry Chay tchay@wikimedia.org wrote:
His first official day is today (April 22). He is going to work with the
Editor Engagement team on Messaging, and any other stuff we can throw at him until he feels sufficiently overwhelmed. I’m still trying to figure out how to verbally distinguish between my boss and him (suggestions welcome!).
What do you do with Erik Zachte?
Please join me in a welcoming Erik to the Wikimedia Foundation. :-)
Welcome!
-Jeremy
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They do, Katie. Have you forgotten how we got you? :-)
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On Apr 22, 2013, at 4:40 PM, Katie Horn khorn@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hmm... "integrated dozens of different payment processors (shh… don’t tell FR-tech)", you say? /me nonchalantly checks to see if Amazon sells comically large butterfly nets
Welcome! :)
-Katie Fundraising Tech Lead
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 12:16 AM, Jeremy Baron jeremy@tuxmachine.comwrote:
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 11:00 PM, Terry Chay tchay@wikimedia.org wrote:
His first official day is today (April 22). He is going to work with the
Editor Engagement team on Messaging, and any other stuff we can throw at him until he feels sufficiently overwhelmed. I’m still trying to figure out how to verbally distinguish between my boss and him (suggestions welcome!).
What do you do with Erik Zachte?
Please join me in a welcoming Erik to the Wikimedia Foundation. :-)
Welcome!
-Jeremy
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Before joining us, Erik was a web developer and operational jack-of-all-trades at Cite Media/Maverick Media which is a custom Symfony2 CRM working on “what the internet is for”[1]. There he worked on MySQL, Redis, Graylog2, ElasticSearch, Nginx w/PHP-FPM integration, phpUnderControl and capifony. He integrated dozens of different payment processors (shh… don’t tell FR-tech) and automated micro-site rollout for the clients using PHP integration into Chef.
Six years ago, he became a PHP developer when he found out, while hacking his DVR that it had a PHP-based webserver. He still likes to do a lot of open-source work[2], and we found him because he was patching HipHop to add namespace support.
Welcome! I look forward to seeing Bernhardson's addition to whatever parts of https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developers/Maintainers he feels comfortable with. :-)
Given that he is a HipHop contributor, maybe we could call him "MC Erik"? ;-)
Welcome, Erik - great to have you here!
As a naming system that's helpful when people have common forenames beginning with a vowel, you can always use <first initial of surname><forename> as a name - there's Merik, Berik and Zerik. Worked at a previous workplace of mine. ;-)
J. (Blessed with a name that doesn't start with a vowel, at least in English.)
On 22 April 2013 16:00, Terry Chay tchay@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hello everyone,
It’s with great pleasure that I’m announcing that Erik Bernhardson has joined the Wikimedia Foundation as a Features Engineer.
Before joining us, Erik was a web developer and operational jack-of-all-trades at Cite Media/Maverick Media which is a custom Symfony2 CRM working on “what the internet is for”[1]. There he worked on MySQL, Redis, Graylog2, ElasticSearch, Nginx w/PHP-FPM integration, phpUnderControl and capifony. He integrated dozens of different payment processors (shh… don’t tell FR-tech) and automated micro-site rollout for the clients using PHP integration into Chef.
Six years ago, he became a PHP developer when he found out, while hacking his DVR that it had a PHP-based webserver. He still likes to do a lot of open-source work[2], and we found him because he was patching HipHop to add namespace support.
His first official day is today (April 22). He is going to work with the Editor Engagement team on Messaging, and any other stuff we can throw at him until he feels sufficiently overwhelmed. I’m still trying to figure out how to verbally distinguish between my boss and him (suggestions welcome!).
Erik lives in Campbell, CA, but is strangely okay with commuting to San Francisco all the time. He likes to drive his motorcycle down to Monterrey on weekends.
Please join me in a welcoming Erik to the Wikimedia Foundation. :-)
Take care, Terry
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On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 9:00 AM, Terry Chay tchay@wikimedia.org wrote:
... His first official day is today (April 22). He is going to work with the Editor Engagement team on Messaging, and any other stuff we can throw at him until he feels sufficiently overwhelmed. I’m still trying to figure out how to verbally distinguish between my boss and him (suggestions welcome!).
Does it have to verbally? I recommend some sort of crazy hat setup, and the other staff members can choose the hats each day?
One day someone might choose a Sombrero, the next day someone might choose [something cool] like a Fez
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