Bio
Dries Buytaert is the original creator and project lead for the Drupal open source web publishing and collaboration platform. Buytaert serves as president of the Drupal Association, a non-profit organization formed to help Drupal flourish. He is also co-founder and chief technology officer of Acquia, a venture-backed software company that offers products and services for Drupal. Dries is also a co-founder of Mollom, a web service that helps you identify content quality and, more importantly, helps you stop website spam. A native of Belgium, Buytaert holds a PhD in computer science and engineering from Ghent University and a Licentiate Computer Science (MsC) from the University of Antwerp.
Personalia
| Name: | Dries Buytaert |
| Date of birth: | November 19th, 1978 |
| Sex: | Male |
| Nationality: | Belgian |
Work
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Co-founder and CTO of Acquia
2007 - current
In 2007 I co-founded Acquia and helped secure $7 million in a Series A financing led by North Bridge Venture Partners, with additional investment from Sigma Partners and O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures. Acquia plans to use the capital to create value-added software and network services around the popular Drupal open source web collaboration and publishing platform. For more information, see
http://acquia.com.
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Co-founder of Mollom
2008 - current
The web is changing. User contribution is now what makes or breaks a site. Allowing users to react, participate and contribute while still keeping your site under control can be a huge challenge. Mollom is a web service that helps you identify content quality and, more importantly, helps you stop comment and contact form spam. For more information, see
http://mollom.com.
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"We chose to go with a Drupal-based platform because it is open source, has a dynamic developer community, and offers a powerful and flexible platform for building online communities."
Mitch Kapor, founder of Lotus and of the Electronic Frontier Foundation
Co-founder and President of the Drupal Association
2006 - current
The Drupal Association is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to promoting and advancing the open source Drupal web publishing and collaboration platform. The Association funds and operates the Drupal.org community web infrastructure and promotes Drupal through events and other marketing activities. Association members are elected drawn from the global Drupal community. For more information, see
http://association.drupal.org.
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"We consider Drupal to be the leading open source platform and development environment."
Marc Canter, co-founder of Macromedia, CEO of Broadband Mechanics, Multimedia visionary
Founder and Project Lead of Drupal
2000 - current
In 2000 I founded
Drupal, a web application platform used to deliver a wide variety of web applications including single or multi-user blogs, wikis, community networks, digital media portals, and core web content management. Assisted by a thriving ecosystem of consultants and developers, a diverse list of organizations are using Drupal as their core social web platform including SonyBMG, Warner Brothers Records, New York Observer, Forbes, The Onion, Harvard University, and Amnesty International. A huge community has grown up around Drupal, with thousands of active committers who contribute to the open source technology, including nearly 2000 community-developed modules for extending Drupal functionality. The Drupal web platform has been downloaded over 2 million times since its inception, and project growth doubles annually. For more information about Drupal, you can look at my
Drupal press corner, you can check out
some Drupal sites or visit
http://drupal.org.
Education
Awards
Academic publications
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Java Performance Evaluation through Rigorous Replay Compilation,
Andy Georges, Lieven Eeckhout and Dries Buytaert.
In proceedings of the ACM conference on object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications (OOPSLA '08), Nashville, USA,
October 2008.
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Using HPM-sampling to drive dynamic compilation,
Dries Buytaert, Andy Georges, Michael Hind, Matthew Arnold, Lieven Eeckhout and Koen De Bosschere.
In proceedings of the ACM conference on object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications (OOPSLA '07), Montreal, Canada,
October 2007.
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Statistically rigorous Java performance evaluation,
Andy Georges, Dries Buytaert and Lieven Eeckhout.
In proceedings of the ACM conference on object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications (OOPSLA '07), Montreal, Canada,
October 2007.
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Javana: a system for building customized Java program analysis tools,
Jonas Maebe, Dries Buytaert, Lieven Eeckhout and Koen De Bosschere.
In proceedings of the ACM conference on object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications (OOPSLA '06), Portland, USA,
October 2006.
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Building Java Program analysis tools using Javana,
Dries Buytaert, Jonas Maebe, Lieven Eeckhout and Koen De Bosschere.
In proceedings of the ACM conference on object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications (OOPSLA '06 companion), Portland, USA,
October 2006.
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GCH: Hints for Triggering Garbage Collections,
Dries Buytaert, Kris Venstermans, Lieven Eeckhout and Koen De Bosschere.
Transactions on High-Performance Embedded Architectures and Compilers, 1(1):52-72,
June 2006.
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Garbage collection hints,
Dries Buytaert, Kris Venstermans, Lieven Eeckhout and Koen De Bosschere.
In Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 3793, Springer-Verlag. In proceeding of the international conference on high performance embedded architectures & compilers (HIPEAC'05), Barcelona, Spain,
November 2005.
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FPGA-aware garbage collection in Java,
Philippe Faes, Mark Christiaens, Dries Buytaert, Dirk Stroobandt.
In proceedings of the international conference on field programmable logic and applications (FPL'05), Tampere, Finland,
August 2005.
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Bottleneck analysis in Java applications using hardware performance monitors,
Dries Buytaert, Andy Georges, Lieven Eeckhout and Koen De Bosschere.
In proceedings of the ACM conference on object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications (OOPSLA '04 companion), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada,
October 2004.
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Method-level phase behavior in Java workloads,
Andy Georges, Dries Buytaert, Lieven Eeckhout and Koen De Bosschere.
In proceedings of the ACM conference on object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications (OOPSLA '04), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada,
October 2004.
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Wonka, Oswald, Rudolph and friends: Java 2 goes mobile,
Dries Buytaert.
In Cappuccino, BeJUG's six-monthly printed newsletter,
January 2003.
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Dynamic delivery of end-user services using Java,
Chris Gray and Dries Buytaert.
In proceedings of the Java and embedded systems symposium (JAES'02), Gent, Belgium,
November 2002.
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A selective runtime compiler for the Wonka Virtual Machine,
Dries Buytaert, Frans Arickx, Steven Buytaert and Johan Vos.
In proceedings of the symposium on program acceleration through application and architecture driven code transformations (PA3CT '02), Edegem, Belgium,
September 2002.
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A profiler and compiler for the Wonka Virtual Machine,
Dries Byutaert, Frans Arickx and Johan Vos.
In proceedings of the second Java Virtual Machine research and technology symposium (JVM '02), WIP session, San Francisco, USA,
August 2002.
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A dynamic service delivery framework based on the OSGi model,
Johan Vos, Steven Buytaert and Dries Buytaert.
In proceedings of the international conference on advances in infrastructure for electronic business, education, science and medicine on the internet (SSGRR '02), L'aquila, Italy,
January 2002.
Miscellaneous facts