David Strauss

Co-founder and developer

Four Kitchens co-founder David Strauss has gained world-class Drupal, PHP, and general web architecture experience from his work with the Wikimedia Foundation, Creative Commons, The Economist, Mansueto Ventures, Lifetime TV, NBC-Universal, and the Internet Archive. David is well-known in the Drupal community as an expert in scalability and database optimization and is a member of the Drupal.org Infrastructure Team. He has attended several Drupal coding sprints and served as a chair on the session committee for Drupalcon DC 2009 and is a Permanent Member of the Drupal Association.

David’s free-software and free-culture project involvement

Drupal

• Permanent Member/General Assembly, Drupal Association
• Drupal.org Infrastructure Team (including database administration)
• Drupal.org Redesign Team
• Drupal Security Team
• Drupal Documentation Team
• Administrator, Drupal.org
• Administrator, Groups.Drupal.org
• Administrator, Assocation.Drupal.org
• MySQL Maintainer, Drupal core
• Contributing author, Planet Drupal
• Maintainer, Launchpad Drupal project
• Presenter
  • Drupalcon Boston 2008
  • Drupalcon Szeged 2008
  • Drupalcon DC 2009
  • DrupalCamp Stockholm 2009
  • Transparency Camp West 2009
  • Community Leadership Summit 2009
  • DrupalCamp Dallas 2009
  • Drupalcon Paris 2009
  • Drupalcon San Francisco 2010 (training day and main conference)
  • Community Leadership Summit 2010
  • Federated Social Web Summit 2010
  • Drupalcon Copenhagen 2010 (training day and main conference)
  • …and many Texas-area Drupal events
• Sprinter
  • Fields in Core, Boston, December 2008
  • Drupal.org Drupal 6 Upgrade, Cambridge, January 2009
  • Drupal.org Redesign, San Francisco, March 2009
  • Drupal Documentation Sprint, Washington DC, March 2009
  • Drupal Documentation Planning Sprint, Toronto, March 2009
  • Drupalcon Paris Drupal.org Redesign Day, September 2009
  • Drupal 7 Contributed Modules Upgrade, October 2009
  • Drupal Load Testing Sprint, Boston, March 2010

The BCFG2 configuration management system

• Committer, BCFG2 core
• Documentation contributor, BCFG2 wiki

CiviCRM

• Committer, CiviCRM
• Architect of original duplicate detection algorithm
• Developer and architect of database transaction management system
• Developer, CiviReport

Wikimedia/Wikipedia/MediaWiki

• Editor, Wikimedia Foundation corporate website
• Administrator and Developer, Wikimedia fundraising system
• Member, Wikimedia Internal
• Presenter at Wikimania 2007 (Taipei) and for the Metroplex Technology Business Council
• Attendee, Wikimania 2006 (Boston)

Internet Archive/Open Content Alliance

• Administrator, Archive.org metadata system
• Developer, Open Library project copyright algorithms
• Presenter, annual Open Library project meetings in 2007 and 2008
• Attendee, annual Open Content Alliance meeting in 2009

Creative Commons

• Developer and architect, Public Domain Registry

Bazaar (version control system)

• Patch contributor
• Contributing author, Planet Bazaar

Education

• University of Texas at Austin, Plan II Honors, 2009
• University of Texas at Austin, Computer Science, Turing Scholars Honors, 2007