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

• Cloud Services
• Data Engineering
• Developer Advocacy
• Global Data and Insights
• Fundraising Tech
• Machine Learning
• Performance Team
• Platform
• Quality and Test Engineering
• Release Engineering
• Research
• Search Platform
• Security
• Site Reliability Engineering

About the Department

• Annual plans
• Quarterly Goals (2017-2021, superseded by Annual Plans)
• How the Wikimedia Technology department communicates
• Historical: Programs (FY2017-18 and FY2018-19)

Teams

Data Engineering

• Data Engineering manager: Olja Dimitrijevic
• Phabricator task boards: http://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/analytics
  • Product backlog: #analytics
  • Current work: #analytics-kanban

Platform

• Team manager: Corey Floyd
• Architecture Manager: Kate Chapman
• Platform Engineering Manager: Mat Nadrofsky
• Phabricator task board: #platform_team

Engineering Productivity Team

• Team Manager: Greg Grossmeier

Performance

• Performance manager: Greg Grossmeier
• Phabricator task board: #performance-team

Release Engineering

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

Quality and Test Engineering

• Quality and Test Engineering manager: Jean-René Branaa

Fundraising tech

• Engineering Manager: Dylan Kozlowski
• Product Manager: David Strine
• Phabricator task boards:
  • Product backlog: #fundraising-backlog
  • Roadmap

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

• Security Lead: John Bennett
• Security 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

Machine Learning Platform

• Wikimedia Scoring Platform team manager: Chris Albon
• Phabricator task boards:
  • Product backlog: #scoring-platform-team-backlog
  • Current work: #scoring-platform-team

Site Reliability Engineering

• Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Leads: Mark Bergsma, Faidon Liambotis
• 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 Team

• Team Manager: Birgit Müller

Cloud Services (WMCS)

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

Developer Advocacy

• Developer Advocacy manager: Melinda Seckington
• Phabricator task board: #Developer-Advocacy

Global Data and Insights

• Team Lead: Sumeet Bodington
• Team Manager: Christina Macholan