Dries Buytaert

Dries Buytaert (born 19 November 1978)[1] is a Belgian open-source software programmer notable as founder and lead developer of the Drupal content management system.[2][3]

Dries Buytaert at FOSDEM 2008.

Career

Buytaert was born in Wilrijk, Antwerp, Belgium.[1]

Buytaert defended his PhD dissertation in computer science on 27 January 2008,[4] at Ghent University in Belgium.[5]

From 1999 to 2000 he was the maintainer of the Linux-WLAN FAQ.[6]

On 1 December 2007, Dries announced,[7] together with co-founder Jay Batson the launch of a start-up called Acquia.[8] Acquia is a commercial open-source software company providing products, services, and technical support for Drupal. Acquia tries to be to Drupal what Red Hat has been to Linux.[9] In 2009, Acquia helped re-launch Whitehouse.gov on Drupal.[10] Dries serves as CTO of Acquia.[11]

On 31 March 2008, Dries launched Mollom, a service dedicated to stopping website spam: "Mollom's purpose is to dramatically reduce the effort of keeping your site clean and the quality of your content high. Currently, Mollom is a spam-killing one-two punch combination of a state-of-the-art spam filter and CAPTCHA server." Over 59,000 websites are protected by the Mollom service,[12] including all of Netlog's messages.[13] Mollom support ended 2 April 2018.[14]

In 2008, Buytaert was elected "Young Entrepreneurs of Tech" by BusinessWeek.[15] He was also named to the MIT Technology Review TR35 as one of the top 35 innovators in the world under the age of 35.[16][17]

References
  1. Curriculum Vitae Archived 21 August 2010 at the Wayback Machine
  2. "History". Drupal.org. Retrieved 23 April 2012.
  3. "The Drupal core". Drupal.org. Archived from the original on 3 May 2012. Retrieved 23 April 2012.; "Revamp of MAINTAINERS.txt". Groups.drupal.org. Retrieved 23 April 2012.
  4. "Dr. Dre, Dries Buytaert". Buytaert.net. Retrieved 23 April 2012.
  5. "conferences.oreilly.com". Conferences.oreillynet.com. Retrieved 23 April 2012.
  6. "Linux-Wlan Faq (Old)". Linux-wlan.org. 6 March 2000. Retrieved 23 April 2012.
  7. "Acquia, my Drupal startup, Dries Buytaert". Buytaert.net. Retrieved 23 April 2012.
  8. "Acquia". Acquia. Retrieved 23 April 2012.
  9. "With $30M in funding, Acquia edges closer to an IPO". Venturebeat.com. 29 November 2012. Retrieved 20 January 2013.
  10. "Whitehouse goes Drupal". Techpresident.com. 24 October 2009. Retrieved 23 April 2012.
  11. "Dries Buytaert". Acquia. Retrieved 24 September 2019.
  12. "Mollom Scorecard". Archived from the original on 15 January 2013. Retrieved 27 January 2013.
  13. "Mollom filtering millions of messages for Netlog". Buytaert.net. 20 May 2009. Retrieved 23 April 2012.
  14. "Mollom End of Life Announcement". Acquia Support Knowledge Base. Retrieved 24 September 2019.
  15. Kharif, Olga (17 April 2008). "Young Entrepreneurs of Tech 2008". Businessweek.com. Retrieved 23 April 2012.
  16. "2008 Young Innovators Under 35". Technology Review. 2008. Retrieved 15 August 2011.
  17. Christopher Chang, 33 University of California, Berkeley. "TR35 2008 Young Innovator". Technologyreview.com. Retrieved 23 April 2012.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

Interviews

Talks

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