Happy Monday.
Please join me to welcome our latest member (contractor) to the Operations Engineering team, Faidon Liambotis. Faidon hails from Greece and he will be working remotely out of Athens. His immediate work at WMF with Ryan, Andrew and Sara is to enhance and deploy more services on the new WIkimedia Labs platform http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WMF_Projects/Wikimedia_Labs.
Faidon comes with lots of experience and expertise in deploying and operating large scale LAMP-stack technologies and virtualized environment (such as KVM & Ganeti), as well as a strong background in network administration.
In addition, he is a active contributor and promoter of open-source software and the free culture movement. He is a volunteer with Debian since 2004 and became a member of the Debian Project since 2006. Recently, he was appointed to the Debian Systems Administration Infrastructure team.
Prior to joining WMF, Faidon worked as a systems engineer at the Greek Research and Technology Network (GRNET), the national research and education network of Greece, since 2004.
When not working, Faidon likes to travel around the world and meeting people.
Faidon is enroute from Athens to San francisco currently and will be in the SFO office starting tomorrow (10th of April) to be orientated and to work with Tech Ops team. In fact, he mentioned if he is not too tired from the flight, he might be in the office late int he afternoon today! For those in SF office, do drop by and meet him in person when you have a chance.
Thanks, CT