Chris Brookins
VP, Engineering
Acquia, Inc.
Chris joined Acquia from Vertical Communications, where he managed engineering for several IP PBX and call center products, and lead a large adoption of Scrum. Prior to Vertical, Chris managed engineering at Stylus Innovation, a telephony toolkit startup that was sold to Artisoft. At work, he is passionate about user and developer experiences and facilitating high performance teams. He is the proud father of 2 boys and a very amateur photographer, cook, and tennis player. Chris earned his BS in computer science from Lehigh University.
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Recent blog posts
Posted on Tuesday, March 8, 2011 - 10:21
Back in June 2010, we decided we wanted to put the Views 3 module into Drupal Gardens to provide site builders everywhere with Views' power and flexibility to manage dynamic content. We have often said that on the Drupal learning curve, Views is the
More... Posted on Monday, March 7, 2011 - 10:37
Back in June 2010, we decided we wanted to put the Views 3 module into Drupal Gardens to provide site builders everywhere with Views' power and flexibility to manage dynamic content. We have often said that on the Drupal learning curve, Views is the
More... Posted on Thursday, February 3, 2011 - 21:53
This sprint the Drupal Gardens team worked on several areas of polish including internationalization, security, multi-image handling, performance and general UX. We hope you like the changes and additions outlined below:
Updated all sites to the
More... Posted on Monday, December 27, 2010 - 12:12
Lately the Drupal Gardens team has been busy adding several highly-requested mega-features. A mega-feature is a feature so large, some companies build entire products based on that feature. Webforms is the most recent mega-feature we have added.
More... Posted on Monday, November 8, 2010 - 09:19
Last week we pushed out a new Drupal Gardens update containing several very popular requests that we are thrilled to deliver! In addition, we are now in the home stretch towards a Drupal 7 release candidate, with only 5 critical bugs left as of
More... Posted on Friday, October 1, 2010 - 08:34
Four weeks ago, the Drupal Gardens team introduced the image gallery feature to all Drupal Gardens sites. While that was great, we wanted galleries to be true media galleries, and so last week the team introduced video support to galleries in a
More... Posted on Monday, August 23, 2010 - 12:03
In the last Drupal Gardens survey of site builders, the #1 requested item was image galleries. We wanted Drupal Gardens' galleries to be built on Drupal 7's new files and fields architecture, and developed using the powerful media and styles
More... Posted on Wednesday, July 7, 2010 - 07:55
In addition to the rush the Drupal Gardens team gets when adding cool new features, we like to get things right, striking a good balance between power and simplicity. In the last sprint, we spent a bunch of time polishing the powerful XML Sitemap
More... Posted on Monday, June 14, 2010 - 09:02
When we started planning Drupal Gardens 18 months ago one of our goals was to help break down the barriers to creating stunning Drupal web sites. To that end we developed the Drupal Gardens' ThemeBuilder -- to allow people to point and click to
More... Posted on Monday, May 24, 2010 - 23:57
Last week the Acquia engineering team finished its first post-DrupalCon sprint and upgraded nearly 9,500 Drupal Gardens sites to a new release. For an invitation-only beta, that is a lot of sites. Considering that this effort is combined with
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