[Labs-l] Announcement: Yuvi Panda joins Ops

[Ryan Lane]

This is totally awesome. Congrats Yuvi!

On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 8:52 AM, Mark Bergsma <mark at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm very pleased to announce that as of this week, Yuvi Panda is part of
> the Wikimedia Technical Operations team, to work on our Wikimedia Labs
> infrastructure. Yuvi originally joined the Wikimedia Foundation Mobile team
> in December 2011, where he has been lead development for the original
> Wikipedia App and its rewrite, amongst many other projects.
>
> Besides his work in Mobile, Yuvi has been volunteering for Ops work in
> Wikimedia Labs for a long time now. One of the notable examples of his work
> is a seamlessly integrated Web proxy system that allows public web requests
> from the Internet to be proxied to Labs instances on private IPs without
> requiring public IP addresses for each instance. This very user friendly
> system, which he built on top of NGINX, LUA, redis, sqlite and the
> OpenStack API, sees a lot of usage and has dramatically reduced the need
> for Labs users to request (scarce) public IP address resources via a manual
> approval process.
>
> Another example of his work that has made a big difference is the
> initiation of the Labs-Vagrant project; bringing the virtues of the
> Mediawiki:Vagrant project to Wikimedia Labs, and allowing anyone to bring a
> MediaWiki development environment up in Labs with great ease. More recently
> Yuvi has been working on our much needed infrastructure in Labs for
> monitoring metrics (Graphite) and service availability (Shinken). We expect
> this will give us a lot more insight into the internals and availability of
> software and services running in Wikimedia Labs and its many projects, and
> we should be able to deploy it in Production as well.
>
> Of course all of this work didn't go unnoticed, and about half a year ago
> we've asked Yuvi if he was interested to move to Ops. With his extensive
> development experience and his demonstrated ability to join this with solid
> Ops work to create stable and highly useful solutions, we think he's a
> great fit for this role.
>
> Yuvi recently had his VISA application accepted, and is planning to move
> to San Francisco in March 2015. Until then he will be working with us
> remotely from India.
>
> Please join me in congratulating Yuvi!
>
> --
> Lead Operations Architect
> Director of Technical Operations
> Wikimedia Foundation
>
>
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