[Labs-l] Announcement: Yuvi Panda joins Ops

[Fox Wilson]

Congratulations, Yuvi! Good luck and have fun!

On Thu Nov 06 2014 at 9:55:01 PM Maximilian Doerr <
maximilian.doerr at gmail.com> wrote:

> That means no ignoring me on IRC Yuvipanda.  ;-)
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> On Nov 6, 2014, at 21:40, Ryan Lane <rlane32 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> This is totally awesome. Congrats Yuvi!
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> On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 8:52 AM, Mark Bergsma <mark at wikimedia.org> wrote:
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>> 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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