Hi everyone,

I'm pleased to announce Gergő Tisza is joining our Mulitmedia team today as a Software Engineer on the team. He'll be working most closely with Mark Holmquist and Fabrice Florin on new media handling features (first up: helping Mark finish off the new Media Viewer). He joins us most recently from Rocket Internet Gmbh, where he helped relaunch the company website, and he has several years of PHP experience before that.

Gergő has been editing Wikipedia for about 9 years, as an anon for his first year, and then as User:Tgr. He's most active on Hungarian Wikipedia, but does some editing on the other wikis as well. He's also active in many other ways: as one of the founding members of Wikimedia Hungary, serving on the board for some of the time since then, as well as helping build some of their fundraising infrastructure. He also helped out with Wiki Loves Monuments, for example working out a bot to import images off of one of the more common Hungarian image hosters. He's also been very active in our Wikimedia Ambassadors group, helping smooth the rollout of several new features.

He plans to move to San Francisco in the coming months, but will be splitting his time between Berlin, Germany and Sopron, Hungary until he can make the move to the U.S.

Welcome, Gergő!

Rob