Hi everyone,
Please join me in welcoming Kartik Mistry as Software Engineer on the Language Engineering team. Kartik started contributing part-time to the team earlier this May. He will now be focusing full-time on improving our internationalization libraries in jQuery specializing in input tools as well as fonts. Kartik brings in-depth expertise on Indic font development as well as Gujarati language content translation tools to the team.
Kartik is well known in India’s open source community for his many contributions to Debian. He has been a Debian developer and package maintainer since August 2008 and has contributed deeply to internationalization and localization of various packages and Debian installer for Gujarati. Kartik actively maintains about 45 packages for Debian including aspell-gu, fortune-debian-hints, nginx as well as Aakar, Rekha and Kalapi fonts for Gujarati. He is a Wikipedian actively contributing in Gujarati and English as well as on Commons. He also contributes as a MediaWiki localizer through translatewiki.net.
Kartik's journey with open source started in 2004 and believes his ultimate goal is to keep contributing various open source projects which are useful to people across the world. When not at work, at Debian or at FOSS world, he loves to run in marathons or spend time with his 6 year old son.
Kartik can be reached on email at kmistry at wikimedia.org or as ‘kart_’ on our irc channels including #mediawiki, #wikimedia-dev and #mediawiki-i18n. Kartik blogs at http://kartikm.wordpress.com in Gujarati and http://0x1f1f.wordpress.com in English.
Welcome again Kartik! I am excited to have you contribute full time to the language engineering team!
-Alolita -- Alolita Sharma Director of Engineering Language Engineering (i18n/L10n) Wikimedia Foundation