Wikimedia Technology

Wikimedia Technology staff employed by the Wikimedia Foundation build, improve and maintain the infrastructure of Wikimedia sites.

About the Department

 * (2017-2021, superseded by Annual Plans)
 * Historical:
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Data Engineering

 * Team manager: Olja Dimitrijevic
 * Phabricator task boards:
 * Product backlog: #data-engineering
 * Current work: #data-engineering-kanban

Engineering Enablement Group

 * Group manager: Kate Chapman

Architecture Team

 * Team Lead: Kate Chapman

Performance

 * Team manager: Larissa Gaulia
 * Phabricator task board: #performance-team

Release Engineering

 * Team manager: Tyler Cipriani
 * Phabricator task boards:
 * Product backlog: #Release-Enginering-Team
 * Current work: #Release-Enginering-Team (Kanban)

Fundraising tech

 * Team manager: Greg Grossmeier
 * Engineering Manager: Dylan Kozlowski
 * Product Manager: To be hired
 * Phabricator task boards:
 * Product backlog: #fundraising-backlog

Global Data and Insights

 * Director: Sumeet Bodington
 * Team manager: Christina Macholan

Machine Learning Platform

 * Team manager: Chris Albon
 * Phabricator task boards:
 * Product backlog: #scoring-platform-team-backlog
 * Current work: #scoring-platform-team

Platform

 * Team manager: Mat Nadrofsky
 * Phabricator task board: #platform_team

Quality and Test Engineering

 * Quality and Test Engineering manager: Jean-René Branaa

Research

 * Research lead: Leila Zia
 * Phabricator task board: #Research

Search Platform

 * Team manager: Guillaume Lederrey
 * Program Manager: Carly Bogen
 * Product Manager: Mike Pham
 * Phabricator task boards:
 * Product backlog: #discovery-search
 * Current work: #discovery-search (Current work)
 * Wikidata Query Service (WDQS):
 * #wikidata-query-service
 * #discovery-wikidata-query-service-sprint

Security

 * Interim Director: Jen Cross
 * Team manager: Jen Cross
 * Phabricator task boards:
 * #Security (Many tasks on this board are hidden due to security policies)
 * #Security-Team
 * #Security-Team-backlog
 * #Security-Team-Reviews

Site Reliability Engineering

 * Vice President: Mark Bergsma
 * Phabricator task boards:
 * #Operations (anything happening within ops/SRE gets this tag)
 * Subteam boards
 * #netops
 * #traffic
 * #dba
 * #operations-software-development
 * #serviceops
 * #dcops
 * Product tags:
 * #prod-kubernetes (related to Streamlined Delivery program)
 * #pybal (product, not team/workflow)
 * Ticket-style workflow systems:
 * #ops-access-requests
 * #hardware-requests
 * #procurement
 * Topic-specific subprojects:
 * Domains
 * DNS
 * Domains
 * Mail
 * media-storage
 * monitoring
 * ops-codfw, ops-eqiad, ops-esams, ops-ulsfo
 * ops-security
 * Packaging

Technical Engagement

 * Director: Birgit Müller

Cloud Services (WMCS)

 * Team manager: Nicholas Skaggs
 * Phabricator task boards:
 * Product backlog: #cloud-services-team
 * Current work: #cloud-services-team (Kanban)

Developer Advocacy

 * Team manager: vacant
 * Phabricator task board: #Developer-Advocacy