Welcome, Erik - great to have you here!
As a naming system that's helpful when people have common forenames
beginning with a vowel, you can always use <first initial of
surname><forename> as a name - there's Merik, Berik and Zerik. Worked
at a previous workplace of mine. ;-)
J. (Blessed with a name that doesn't start with a vowel, at least in English.)
On 22 April 2013 16:00, Terry Chay <tchay(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hello everyone,
It’s with great pleasure that I’m announcing that Erik Bernhardson has
joined the Wikimedia Foundation as a Features Engineer.
Before joining us, Erik was a web developer and operational
jack-of-all-trades at Cite Media/Maverick Media which is a custom Symfony2
CRM working on “what the internet is for”[1]. There he worked on MySQL,
Redis, Graylog2, ElasticSearch, Nginx w/PHP-FPM integration, phpUnderControl
and capifony. He integrated dozens of different payment processors (shh…
don’t tell FR-tech) and automated micro-site rollout for the clients using
PHP integration into Chef.
Six years ago, he became a PHP developer when he found out, while hacking
his DVR that it had a PHP-based webserver. He still likes to do a lot of
open-source work[2], and we found him because he was patching HipHop to add
namespace support.
His first official day is today (April 22). He is going to work with the
Editor Engagement team on Messaging, and any other stuff we can throw at him
until he feels sufficiently overwhelmed. I’m still trying to figure out how
to verbally distinguish between my boss and him (suggestions welcome!).
Erik lives in Campbell, CA, but is strangely okay with commuting to San
Francisco all the time. He likes to drive his motorcycle down to Monterrey
on weekends.
Please join me in a welcoming Erik to the Wikimedia Foundation. :-)
Take care,
Terry
[1]:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWEjvCRPrCo
[2]:
https://github.com/ebernhardson
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