Congratulations, Ryan and Leslie! Glad to have you two running the place :)
- Jonathan
On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 12:40 AM, Ken Snider <ksnider(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hello!
I'm extremely pleased to announce that we've had two promotions within the
Technical Operations team!
Leslie Carr has been promoted to Senior Operations Engineer (Networking).
As many of you know, along with Mark, Leslie has been instrumental in
securing preferred rates and contracts with with connectivity providers and
vendors on the networking side of our infrastructure - in a world where
human connections are every bit as important as topographic ones, Leslie
has maintained a vast network of contacts to help ensure that we're
receiving competitive pricing, fair peering, and a plethora of other perks
that come part and parcel with maintaining solid relationships in the
networking arena, while also taking point on many of the technical aspects
of our network infrastructure as well.
We're lucky to have her, and I look forward to working with her as the
team completes the setup of ULSFO and begins work on our next data-centre
project.
Ryan Lane has also been promoted to Senior Operations Engineer. Ryan has
served as the lead on the Labs project, a component of our infrastructure
that has become increasingly critical to projects both within WMF
engineering (with Beta Labs), as well as with various volunteer projects
(via Tool Labs). Ryan is about to head up the migration of this
infrastructure from Tampa to Ashburn as part of our plan to sunset the
Tampa data-centre.
Additionally, Ryan has also played a key role in several non-labs-related
projects, including most recently our HTTPS-as-default project, as well as
work on integrating git-deploy into the mediawiki deployment pipeline.
Ryan's work has been invaluable, and this promotion well-deserved.
Thanks!
--Ken.
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Jonathan T. Morgan
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