Hi everyone,
I'm thrilled to announce that Aaron Arcos has agreed to volunteer for
the Wikimedia Foundation as a developer with our Multimedia team
through May. Aaron most recently worked at Google Switzerland (from
2005 until August 2013), where he was a frontend software engineer and
UX designer on several projects such as AdWords Template Center,
SafeSearchLock, GMail Themes and the recent GCalendar redesign. He
also served as a process and release master, in charge of defining,
improving and enforcing their development, testing and release
processes, and taught classes at Google about project management, user
experience and Google culture.
He decided to leave Google, and to give back to the community in a
number of ways, working for free for projects that do good for
humanity (like us!) His first stop was at
nairobits.com, a project
that provides the economically-disadvantaged youth in Nairobi with web
design and programming skills, teaching PHP and Javascript. He plans
to return there in May. After that, he has other organizations that
he'd like to work with.
Prior to Google, Aaron worked at
IMTF.com in Switzerland, Techasi
Ingénierie in Paris, Yahoo! and Electronics for Imaging in the Bay
Area.
He earned his Masters in Computer Engineering at University of
Washington and has a BS in Computer Engineering from UNAM in Mexico
City.
Aaron will be visiting the San Francisco office while he's
volunteering for us. He's "aarcos" on Freenode (and will often be on
#wikimedia-multimedia), and his email address is
aarcos.wiki(a)gmail.com. Welcome Aaron!
Rob