I worked for Wikimedia from 2012 to 2016. During that time I successfully agitated for the creation of a dedicated performance team, which I led for its first t

I worked for Wikimedia from 2012 to 2016. During that time I successfully agitated for the creation of a dedicated performance team, which I led for its first two years. During that time, we cut median page load time by over 40% ( http://observer.com/2015/08/how-wikipedia-upped-its-page-load-speed-by-roughly-40-percent-and-why/ http://observer.com/2015/08/how-wikipedia-upped-its-page-loa...), and brought median page save time down from over 6 seconds to 800ms. My salary was in the 100k to 150k range. That is not a princely sum for software developers in the Bay Area, but it is a lot of money, especially when you consider that it came primarily from donations of $50 or less that donors could have spent elsewhere, on other causes. I was humbled by that fact and made a point of reflecting on it daily to make sure I was doing my best to maximize value for donors and users.