Dries Buytaert

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Dries is the original creator and project lead for the Drupal open source web publishing and collaboration platform. He serves as president of the Drupal Association, a non-profit organization formed to help Drupal flourish. Dries is co-founder and chief technology officer of Acquia, a venture-backed software company that offers products and services for Drupal. Dries is also working on Mollom, a service that helps you identify content quality and that stops 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.

Milestones

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• Dries Buytaert — BusinessWeek included Dries on their list of top 30-and-under innovators for 2008. (2008)
  Posted 10/16/08 at 9:39pm
• Dries Buytaert — MIT's Technology Review included Dries on their list of young innovators whose inventions and research they find most exciting. (2008)
  Posted 10/16/08 at 9:40pm
• Added position as Co-founder and CTO at Acquia.
  Posted 12/23/07 at 6:36am
• Added position as Co-founder at Mollom.
  Posted 10/1/08 at 6:06pm

Videos

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1. Special report: Young Entrepreneurs of Tech (businessweek.com) [edit]
2. MIT TR 35 Young Innovator 2008 (technologyreview.com) [edit]