Jeff Beeman is Lead for Drupal and Web Consulting Services in Arizona State University's University Technology Office. He is currently responsible for development of Drupal-based applications and modules and oversight of ASU's shared hosting environment, with a focus on stability, performance, security and long-term scalability. Read more »

Living proof that anyone can master Drupal, Kathy Marks is a former romance novelist and English comp instructor. Now she writes code for Arizona State University where she's been a leading proponent of using Drupal for university sites and a key instigator of the growing Drupal community at ASU. She inconsistently maintains a blog at kathymarks.com.

Lane Becker is co-founder and President of Get Satisfaction, a web startup dedicated to fostering new methods of communication and collaboration between companies and their customers. Read more »

Eric is President of Development Seed, an online strategy shop in Washington, DC. Eric has developed communications strategies and tools for organizations around the world, ranging from international development organizations to major media outlets. Recently he has been mapping food security projects in Africa, developing the intranet at the World Bank for their international communications team, and building decentralized data collection tools to survey public health organizations' capacity to respond to bird flu outbreak on the ground in Southeast Asia. Read more »

Doug Vann's most recent project was Brazen Careerist enhancing their Web 2.0 presence by increasing the Social Networking functionality of User Profiles. He now works full time with www.DuoConsulting.com out of Chicago. His strong desire to reach out to Drupal's newcomers has lead to presentations in Minneapolis, Toronto, CMS Expo , & Drupal Camps in Chicago, Atlanta, Wisconsin & Los Angeles., where ever he can offer a hand up to the uninitiated. Read more »

For nearly 4 years Greg has been helping organizations leverage Drupal to achieve their goals. For 2 years he has been a member of the Drupal security team focused on education: helping keep the Drupal sites of the world safe. Last year he started writing a book about security in Drupal and this spring it was finally finished and published. Read more »

Josh is a founding partner at Chapter Three, an expert Drupal consultancy based in San Francisco California. He has been active with the Drupal community since 2003 — that's Drupal 4.2, for those keeping track — and was the founder of the Drupal Dojo. As CTO of Chapter Three, he specializes in infrastructure, architecture, scalability, and high-performance engineering. Read more »

Rob Purdie has been working with teams to manage Drupal projects since 2005. He has worked with small not-for-profits in Canada, big NGOs in the UK (Greenpeace, Amnesty, Concern Worldwide), and is now the Scrum Practice Leader for The Economist in New York. Rob is the founder of Drupal for NGOs in London and the New York City Scrum User Group.

James Walker is Lullabot's Director of Education where he oversees the company's public workshops, seminars and private Drupal trainings, combining his passion for both technology and teaching, A leader in the Drupal community, James is a founding member of the non-profit Drupal Association and the Drupal security team. As a long time member of the Drupal community, James maintains over a dozen modules and has contributed countless patches to Drupal core. Read more »

Allie has been an open source developer and advocate since 2001. She has worked on several open source applications, and went "Drupal Pro" in 2005.

Her emphasis is on creating relationships between a wide variety of information such as demographics and ecommerce information, but also participatory and locative data that create a big-picture view of how an online community functions. Her goal is to provide tools that deliver this information in ways that make sense and work well for site administrators of all skill levels. Read more »

Four Kitchens co-founder Todd Ross Nienkerk has been involved in the web design and publishing industries since 1996. Since that time, he has designed and built countless websites and written for, edited, and managed several online and print publications. Although Todd’s interests focus primarily on graphic design, his strong background in development and site architecture allows him to contribute to virtually any creative or technical task. Todd is a member of both the Drupal Documentation Team and the Drupal.org Redesign Team. Read more »

Paul Reeves is the senior developer for MTV Networks UK & Ireland and became a Drupal Evangelist after attending DrupalCon Boston in 2008. After building bespoke content management systems for around 9 years, he wishes he'd discovered Drupal around 9 years sooner.

Jeff Robbins is co-founder and CEO of Lullabot. Jeff started one of the world's first web development companies in 1993 and has developed sites for Ringo Starr, MTV, and New York's Museum of Modern Art. Additionally, Jeff spent most of the 1990's fronting the band Orbit, toured with the Lollapalooza festival, and penned a top-10 modern rock single. Read more »

Ryan got his start in web development through an online sales company based in Louisville, KY, his home of over 10 years. It was there that he nursed Ubercart through its infancy to its use on over 20,000 websites as the Project Lead and community face of the project.

Ryan joined Commerce Guys in 2009 and continued to lead Ubercart until branching out into Drupal Commerce, a new initiative focusing on empowering users to build e-commerce sites with the best new features that Drupal 7 has to offer. He focuses most of his time developing the code base, growing the community of contributors to the project, and training new users online and at community events. Read more »

Nathan Haug is one of the foremost user-interface developers in the Drupal project. His interest in combining design and software implementation led him to undergraduate degrees in both Visual Communications and Computer Science. He developed significant UI improvements for the Drupal 6 release, including Drupal's drag-and-drop implementation and a framework for easy Ajax-like behaviors. Read more »

Addison Berry takes part in many aspects of both the Drupal software and community. In addition to being the Documentation Team Lead, she contributes patches to core Drupal, maintains several contributed modules, and is active in various mentoring programs such as the Drupal Dojo group and Google's Highly Open Participation (GHOP) program. Read more »

Earl Miles is a permanent member and founder of the Drupal Association. In 2005, Earl found Drupal and thought it was exactly the kind of thing that he wanted for a website he was building in his spare time. Then he found out that Drupal lacked a couple of features here and there; so Earl ignored work for about three weeks and created the Views module, which has been instrumental in Drupal's continued growth.

Earl has also been active in the community providing support here and there, as well as posting tips and tricks when the mood strikes him. Read more »