Happy to see Kunal is joining WMF. Congrats :)
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On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 11:43 AM, Martijn Hoekstra <
martijnhoekstra(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Dec 13, 2013 2:09 AM, "Terry Chay"
<tchay(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hello everyone,
It’s with great pleasure that I’m announcing that Kunal Mehta[1] has
joined the
Wikimedia Foundation as contractor in Features Engineering.
Before joining us (and currently), Kunal is a student in college,
switching from
computer science to business administration for reasons that
I’m sure warrant more discussion.
Kunal is currently a Wikipedia admin got involved working on the projects
8 years
ago. He also helps writing and maintaining bots (legoktm <3’s
pywikibot) and working on the nether regions of the volunteer developer
community as part of the Volunteer Response Team, which he currently
continues to do[2]. I met him at Wikimania through a Wikidata scholarship
because apparently we were too cheap to spring for his ticket.
Kunal will be working with the Core Features Team since MassMessage[3]
and Echo[4]
have overlapping concerns, and Flow[5] can use more development
support now that it is out. When he isn’t doing that you’ll see him around
adding this and that to core or the bots. :-)
Kunal lives and goes to school in San Jose. Most importantly, he’s
unlocked level
2 in Naan Sense on FourSquare[6]. From his username on the
projects, I’d also bet he must like Lego Mindstorms[7].
For the record, Kunal, I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords.
As you have guessed from my usual tardiness and my drive to finish my
announcements before the calendar year, his first official day was actually
October 28th (Only two months ago? Not bad, not bad at all).
Please join me in a belated welcome of Kunal Mehta to the Wikimedia
Foundation.
https://foursquare.com/legoktm/badge/51296de6e4b096ae4b48fb8e?ref=tw
[7]:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego_Mindstorms_NXT
terry chay 최태리
Director of Features Engineering
Wikimedia Foundation
Sweet! Congrats Kunal. Also, congrats WMF.
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