Hoi,
I am really happy for Yuvi. He will continue to do what he does and will
become even more awesome at it.
At the same time I find it sad that he moves to the USA because he was
invaluable because he was available when the other Labs people were not
around. As such he provided a much needed service exactly because he lives
in India.
Thanks,
Gerard
On 7 November 2014 06:44, Ashish Dubey <ashish.dubey91(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Awesome. Congrats Yuvi!
On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 1:14 AM, Derric Atzrott <
datzrott(a)alizeepathology.com
wrote:
> Agreed! Congrats!
>
> > Awesome Yuvi. Congratulations! :D
> >
> >> On Nov 6, 2014, at 10:47 PM, Danese Cooper <danese(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Woot! Way to go, Yuvi!
> >>
> >> D
> >>
> >> On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 4:55 PM, Mark Bergsma <mark(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi all,
> >>>
> >>> I'm very pleased to announce that as of this week, Yuvi Panda is
part
> of
> >>> the Wikimedia Technical Operations team, to work on our Wikimedia
Labs
>>> infrastructure. Yuvi originally
joined the Wikimedia Foundation
Mobile
team
>>> in December 2011, where he has been lead development for the original
>>> Wikipedia App and its rewrite, amongst many other projects.
>>>
>>> Besides his work in Mobile, Yuvi has been volunteering for Ops work
in
>>> Wikimedia Labs for a long time now.
One of the notable examples of
his
work
>> is a seamlessly integrated Web proxy
system that allows public web
requests
>> from the Internet to be proxied to Labs
instances on private IPs
without
>> requiring public IP addresses for each
instance. This very user
friendly
>> system, which he built on top of NGINX,
LUA, redis, sqlite and the
>> OpenStack API, sees a lot of usage and has dramatically reduced the
need
>> for Labs users to request (scarce) public
IP address resources via a
manual
>> approval process.
>>
>> Another example of his work that has made a big difference is the
>> initiation of the Labs-Vagrant project; bringing the virtues of the
>> Mediawiki:Vagrant project to Wikimedia Labs, and allowing anyone to
bring
a
>> MediaWiki development environment up in
Labs with great ease. More
recently
>> Yuvi has been working on our much needed
infrastructure in Labs for
>> monitoring metrics (Graphite) and service availability (Shinken). We
expect
>> this will give us a lot more insight into
the internals and
availability of
>>> software and services running in Wikimedia Labs and its many
projects,
and
>> we should be able to deploy it in
Production as well.
>>
>> Of course all of this work didn't go unnoticed, and about half a year
ago
>> we've asked Yuvi if he was interested
to move to Ops. With his
extensive
>> development experience and his
demonstrated ability to join this with
solid
>>> Ops work to create stable and highly useful solutions, we think he's
a
>>
great fit for this role.
>>
>> Yuvi recently had his VISA application accepted, and is planning to
move
to
>> San Francisco in March 2015. Until then
he will be working with us
remotely
>> from India.
>>
>> Please join me in congratulating Yuvi!
>>
>> --
>> Lead Operations Architect
>> Director of Technical Operations
>> Wikimedia Foundation
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