[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Fwd: Welcome to Ken Snider, Wikimedia Operations

[Nurunnaby Chowdhury]

 Ken Snider..welcome!


On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 12:05 AM, Sydney <sydney.poore at gmail.com> wrote:

> Welcome to Ken.
>
> It's great to see someone with his experience joining Wikimedia Foundation.
> Sydney Poore
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Jun 6, 2013, at 12:18 PM, Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
> > FYI :)
> >
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org>
> > Date: Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 9:17 AM
> > Subject: Welcome to Ken Snider, Wikimedia Operations
> > To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
> >
> >
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I’m delighted to announce that Ken Snider is joining the Wikimedia
> > operations team. He will start as an international contractor working
> > remotely from Toronto, Canada on June 10, and will be visiting SF in
> > the week of June 17. We’re currently in the process of seeking work
> > authorization in the United States in the Director of TechOps
> > position.
> >
> > CT has graciously agreed to support the ops leadership transition
> > full-time through June, and part-time through July. We’ll be starting
> > the handover while Ken is working remotely.
> >
> > A bit more about Ken: Ken was apparently genetically predisposed to
> > become a sysadmin since he joined one of Canada’s first large ISPs,
> > Primus, straight out of school in 1997 and helped build their
> > infrastructure til 2001. He then joined a startup called OpenCOLA in
> > 2001 which was co-founded by Cory Doctorow and developed early P2P
> > precursors to tools like BitTorrent and Steam. It’s best known today
> > for the development of an open source (GPL’d) cola recipe which is
> > still in use (more than 150,000 cans sold if Wikipedia is to be
> > believed).
> >
> > Ken got involved in one of Cory’s pet projects, BoingBoing.net which
> > some of you may have heard of ;-), and has been their sysadmin since
> > 2003. After a stint from 2001-2005 at DataWire, Ken became Director of
> > Tech Ops at Federated Media, a role he held from 2005-2012.
> >
> > Federated Media is an ad network that was founded to support high
> > traffic blogs and sites that want to stay independent of large
> > publishers, with a network that supports more than 1B requests/day.
> >
> > One of the unusual challenges at FM was that the company grew through
> > acquisitions of various blogging and publishing networks. This led to
> > the challenge of integrating very heterogeneous operations and
> > engineering infrastructure, including multiple geographically
> > distributed ops teams and data-center locations. As DTO, Ken led these
> > efforts, such as OS standardization, development of a unified
> > deployment infrastructure, etc. Ken also ensured that the operations
> > group partnered effectively with the various engineering teams
> > developing site features and enhancements.
> >
> > I want to again take this opportunity to thank CT Woo for his tireless
> > operations leadership since December 2010. I’d also like to thank
> > everyone who’s participated in the Director of TechOps search process.
> >
> > Please join me in welcoming Ken to the Wikimedia Foundation and the
> > community. :-)
> >
> > All best,
> >
> > Erik
> > --
> > Erik Möller
> > VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation
> >
> >
> > --
> > Erik Möller
> > VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation
> >
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