Dries Buytaert

Dries Buytaert
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Dries Buytaert, Drupal founder and project lead
The founder and project lead of Drupal. Also the co-founder of Acquia.

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. In 2008, Buytaert was elected Young Entrepreneurs of Tech by BusinessWeek as well as MIT TR 35 Young Innovator.

(from Dries’ website)

Radar Database:
Provides supporting services to Drupal agencies, and markets the Drupal project. It also runs some innovative projects such as Drupal Gardens.
A web service that helps to identify content quality and stop spam.