User blog comment:Trellar/A Day in the Life of Wikia Staff: Engineering/@comment-2200849-20120424121332/@comment-140142-20120424191908

It was actually the first engineering office of Wikia. Gil (former CEO) was VP of the international division of eBay before Wikia and knew Emil in Poland. When Gil got the gig, he asked Emil to put together a grade-A team, and that's what he did.