Dries Buytaert

Work

• Co-founder and CTO of Acquia
  2007 - current

  In 2007 I co-founded Acquia. Acquia helps enterprises build social publishing websites quickly, easily and with a lower total cost of ownership by leveraging Drupal. Our products, services and support enable companies to leverage the power, technical innovation and economic value of Drupal while simplifying the experience, removing the complexity and minimizing the risk.

  In 2007, I 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. In 2009 we raised a $8 million round Series B, and in 2010 we raised a $8.5 million round Series C.

  Acquia has offices in the US and Europe, and currently employs more than 120 people. Customers include Al Jazeera, Whitehouse.gov and many more.

  For more information, see acquia.com.

• 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 mollom.com.

• "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. For more information, see association.drupal.org.

• "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, Drupal, a free tool for building customized websites quickly and easily. A huge international community has grown up around Drupal, with tens of thousands of active contributors. Drupal powers 2% of all the website on the internet, and is used by organizations like Sony Music, Verizon, World Economic Forum, Al Jazeera, Time, NBC, eBay, Harvard, MIT, and more.

  A huge community has grown up around Drupal, with thousands of active committers who contribute to the open source technology, including nearly 10,000 community-developed modules for extending Drupal functionality.

  For more information about Drupal, you can look at my Drupal press corner, you can check out some Drupal sites or visit drupal.org.

Education

• PhD in Computer Science and Engineering
  University of Ghent
  
  2003 - 2008
  • Thesis: Profiling Techniques for Performance Analysis and Optimization of Java Applications
  • Promoters: Koen De Bosschere and Lieven Eeckhout
  • James Gosling (inventor of Java and VP at Sun Microsystems) and Michael Hind (Research staff member and senior manager of programming technologies department at IBM T.J. Watson) were part of my PhD defense committee.
• Licentiate Computer Science (MsC)
  University of Antwerp
  1996 - 2000
  • Grade: magna cum laude (with great distinction)
  • Thesis: Java AWT for embedded systems

Awards

• BusinessWeek Young Entrepreneurs of Tech 2008: BusinessWeek included me on their list of top 30-and-under innovators for 2008.
• MIT TR 35 Young Innovator 2008: MIT's Technology Review included me on their list of young innovators whose inventions and research they find most exciting.
• Top 5 most influential people in Open Source 2009: as part of MindTouch’s 2009 open source best practices research, they asked C and VP level Open Source Executives who they thought are the most influential people in the industry. I made it to the top 5 influential Open Source executives of 2009.
• CIOnet Innovation Award 2009
• University of Antwerp Alumnus of the Year 2010

Academic publications

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Wonka, Oswald, Rudolph and friends: Java 2 goes mobile, Dries Buytaert. In Cappuccino, BeJUG's six-monthly printed newsletter, January 2003.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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

• Advisor for OSUOSL
  2008 - current
  The OSUOSL is the home of growing, high-impact open source communities. Its world-class hosting services enable the Linux operating system, Apache web server, the Drupal content management system and over 50 other leading open source software projects to collaborate with contributors and distribute software to millions of users globally.
• Advisor for NowPublic (Examiner.com)
  2005 - 2009
  NowPublic is a participatory news network which mobilizes an army of reporters to cover the events that define our world. In recent months, the company has become one of the fastest growing news organizations with thousands of reporters in over 140 countries. In 2009, NowPublic was acquired by Examiner.com. To learn more about NowPublic, read my blogs posts on NowPublic.
• Founder and maintainer of the Linux WLAN FAQ
  1999 - 2000
  In 1999 I started and maintained the Linux WLAN FAQ. Today, I no longer maintain the FAQ but the work has been picked up by others in the Linux WLAN community. My aged version is no longer available at the original URL (linux.grmbl.be/wlan/) but has been archived at www.buytaert.net/files/wlan-faq.html. Maintained editions of the Linux WLAN FAQ can be found at www.linux-wlan.org/.
• Myers-Briggs personality type: ENTJ