Thanks everyone for the warm welcome. I am excited as well to be part of the VE and the larger WMF team. I hope I can deliver the goods! :)

Have a great weekend, Subbu.

Yay Subbu! It is really awesome to have you on board. Now that the Parsoid team grew by 100%, we get to bounce ideas off each other and make the parser really shine ;) The next 80% after the first 80% are awaiting us..

Cheers!

Gabriel

On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 1:25 AM, Terry Chay <tchay@wikimedia.org mailto:tchay@wikimedia.org> wrote:

Hello everyone,

It’s with great pleasure that I’m announcing that Subramanya
Sastry is joining the Wikimedia Foundation as a Senior Features
Software Engineer. Initially, Subbu (as he is known by his peers)
will work with the Visual Editor team to assist on building a new
Parser. Maybe later we can get him interested in other
architectural and structural performance engineering. ;-)

Before joining us, Subbu worked with fellow WMFer, Fabrice Florin,
as the engineering manager and lead engineer at NewsTrust
<http://newstrust.net/>, a nonprofit social news network devoted
to good journalism. More recently (and more relevantly), he has
been contributing to JRuby <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JRuby> to
build a next-generation higher performance runtime
<http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2012/oss-grant-roundup-jruby-runtime/>.
He has his Ph.D. in CS from U. Wisconsin-Madison and his Bachelors
from IIT in Kanpur.

Beyond that, he enjoys doing a lot of nonprofit and volunteer
work. He’s worked at the Environment Support Group in Bangalore
<http://esgindia.org> and with Asha for Education
<http://ashanet.org/>, the Friends of River Narmada
<http://narmada.org/ , and the India Institute for Critical Action
Centre in Movement <http://cacim.net/> which focuses on critical
engagement with social movements and their organizational
politics.  Most recently, he has been volunteering his time with
Center for Earth and Energy Democracy <http://ceed.org>.

Subbu comes highly recommended by his peers, who describe him as
an outstanding and versatile engineer, as well as a wonderful team
player. More importantly, he is deeply committed to social change
— not just to technology for its own sake.

He enjoys growing vegetables, cooking food, live music, movies on
big screens, books, armchair philosophising and badminton.

His first official day was May 14th (I rushed the paperwork so
Gabriel could get his hands on him :-)), and he will be working
remotely from Minneapolis, MN. (He's reading this mailing list as
we speak so I haven't had time to scrub all the awful things we
said about him. Sorry!)

Please join me in welcoming Subbu to the Wikimedia Foundation. :-)

Take care,


Terry

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