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@gmail.com wrote:
Awesome. Congrats Yuvi!
On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 1:14 AM, Derric Atzrott < datzrott@alizeepathology.com
wrote:
Agreed! Congrats!
Awesome Yuvi. Congratulations! :D
On Nov 6, 2014, at 10:47 PM, Danese Cooper danese@gmail.com wrote:
Woot! Way to go, Yuvi!
D
On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 4:55 PM, Mark Bergsma mark@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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