in MediaWiki

tagged debian, job, sre, wikimedia

Starting a new job

Last week I officially joined the Site Reliability Engineering team at the Wikimedia Foundation. I'll be working with the Service Operations team, which "...takes care of public and “user-visible” services."

I'm glad to be back at the WMF; I had originally started working there in 2013 but recently took a break to finish school. SRE will be my ninth distinct team at the WMF, and I'm looking forward to even more adventures.

As part of transitioning into my new role, I have unsubscribed myself from most MediaWiki bug mail and Gerrit notifications. Once I get more situated I'll put out a more detailed request for new maintainers for the components that need them. I'll continue taking care of maintenance as needed until then.

P.S.: I created a new userbox about Rust on mediawiki.org.

in MediaWiki

tagged openpgp, wikimedia

PGP key consolidation

Note: A signed version of this announcement can be found at https://legoktm.com/w/index.php?title=PGP/2020-12-14_key_consolidation.

I am consolidating my PGP keys to simplify key management. Previously I had a separate key for my wikimedia.org email, I am revoking that key and have added that email as an identity to my main key.

I have revoked the key 6E33A1A67F4E2DF046736A0E766632234B56D2EC (legoktm at wikimedia dot org). I have pushed the revocation to the SKS Keyservers and additionally published it at https://legoktm.com/w/index.php?title=PGP/2020-12-14_revocation.

My main key, FA1E9F9A41E7F43502CA5D6352FC8E7BEDB7FCA2, now has a legoktm at wikimedia dot org identity. An updated version can be fetched from keys.openpgp.org, the SKS Keyservers, or https://legoktm.com/w/index.php?title=PGP. It should also be included in the next Debian keyring update. I took this opportunity to extend the expiry for another two years to 2022-12-14.

in Life

tagged degree, journalism, scientist

Legoktm, B.S.

Me, wearing my cap and gown, in front of the San Jose State University sign
Photo by Jesus Tellitud and Blue Nguyen
The Trustees of the California State University
on recommendation of the faculty of the
College of Humanities and the Arts
have conferred upon

Kunal Mehta

the degree of

Bachelor of Science

Journalism
So this makes me a scientist now, right? I used to joke that I was putting in all this work for a piece of paper, but now I'm actually very proud of this piece of paper.

I want to thank all of my family, who really kept me going and supported me no matter what.

Thanks to my professors and teachers at De Anza and San Jose State for giving me the opportunity and platform to explore and grow my love for journalism. I'm proud to be an alum of La Voz, Update News and the Spartan Daily.

Of course, the real treasure was all the friends I made along the way. But seriously, I'm so glad I met all of you, and I will treasure our relationships.

Thanks to my colleagues at the Wikimedia Foundation and the Freedom of the Press Foundation for their furthering my professional development, assistance with networking, and just constant support. Also for indulging my sticker addiction.

To the IRC cabal: thanks for being the group of people I can turn to for help, no matter what time of day nor location. And for all the huggles.

I hope to celebrate in-person with you all ... soon.

P.S. Here are some more photos.