User:CAnanian (WMF)

C. Scott Ananian

Staff Software Engineer, Wikimedia Foundation

Building robust and reliable systems to allow people to discover, share, and learn.

About me

C. Scott Ananian is a Staff Software Engineer for the Wikimedia Foundation and Tech Lead for the Parsoid project.

Previously, Dr. Ananian was a "fixer" for One Laptop per Child. He received his PhD in computer science from MIT, and before joining OLPC was a local activist and organizer for copyright issues. He organized Free Sklyarov Boston in July 2001, and in 2004 and 2005 was the lead programmer for the Election Incident Reporting System, which collected real-time data on elections across the US. He's a kernel hacker, advocate of voter verifiable elections, and part-time khipu researcher. Now he tries to build robust and reliable systems to allow kids and adults to discover, share, and learn.

My work

A list of talks and presentations Dr. Ananian has given can be found on his user page on English Wikipedia.

Disclaimer: I work for or provide services to the Wikimedia Foundation, and this is the account I try to use for edits or statements I make in that role. However, the Foundation does not vet all my activity, so edits, statements, or other contributions made by this account may not reflect the views of the Foundation.

Contact me

Pronouns: he / his / him
E-mail: cananianwikimedia.org
My username on the projects is cscott
Mailing address is Wikimedia Foundation, 149 New Montgomery Street, Third Floor, San Francisco CA 94105
My personal blog is http://cscott.net
~~cscottnet on Twitter~~
@cscott@kolektiva.social on Mastodon
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