Kieran Lal
Technical director, enterprise sales
Acquia, Inc.
Kieran is the Technical Director of Enterprise Sales at Boston-based Acquia. In this role, he provides technical leadership to the Acquia sales team and works closely with Acquia's customers. He has been a leader in the Drupal community since 2004, when he earned his nickname, Amazon, by following a dream that he was biking through the Amazon river basin. That spirit of adventure continues in his multiple roles within the Drupal community today. He has been involved with and has pioneered many projects including the drupal.org redesign, Drupalcon Boston & San Francisco, the coordination of the Drupal security team, and many more.
Recent blog posts
Posted on Monday, October 6, 2008 - 11:23
It's been a couple of weeks since Web 2.0 New York. The event was a success and early reports indicated it exceeded expectations for the event organizers.
For Acquia it was a successful event. We met over 214 people who were running Drupal sites
More... Posted on Wednesday, October 1, 2008 - 12:41
It's political season here in the United States, and that means it's rumor time. Research has shown that if we are exposed to information as little as eight times we are more likely to believe it. Logic, facts, reason don't necessary apply to our
More... Posted on Monday, September 29, 2008 - 13:45
In the Drupal community we have a saying talk is silver and code is gold. For over a year now, members of Acquia have been both talking and coding, and I think it's time to bring some of this to light. In future posts I'll also highlight Acquia
More... Posted on Sunday, September 28, 2008 - 21:09
I am in the final quarter of a whirlwind 2 months of professional and personal travel. If you love to travel, you might consider joining Acquia's professional services team where travel is not a requirement, it's an opportunity.
San Francisco -
More... Posted on Friday, September 19, 2008 - 15:51
Here's a video of some Drupal showcase sites. I know there are a bunch more out there. Here's a list of resources for find more Drupal education sites provided by Bill Fitzgerald:http://groups.drupal.org/node/8136http://groups.drupal.org/node/
More... Posted on Friday, September 19, 2008 - 15:50
Wow, what a weekend.
I got up around 4:30AM Saturday morning to fly to Los Angeles. My new colleague Brenda Boggs, from the Acquia support team, was kind enough to pick me up at LAX on her way to Drupalcamp LA from San Diego.
Two weeks earlier I
More... Posted on Thursday, September 11, 2008 - 19:50
The history of the taxonomy sprint
Back in March 2008, Scott Mattoon, from the Open Architecture Network and Sun, contacted me regarding a TED prize alumni, the Encyclopedia of Life(EOL) who wanted to attend Drupalcon Boston. I was introduced to
More... Posted on Wednesday, September 3, 2008 - 16:39
On Sunday the Drupalcon organizers arranged for a code sprint at the excellent József Attila Study and Information Centre. What a difference great infrastructure makes to the productivity of a day of sprinting. The work area was the open birds of
More... Posted on Tuesday, September 2, 2008 - 00:01
The first 13:45 is Szeged conference logistics, so you will want to forward to get to the beginning of the keynote.
If you are interested in participating in the re-design please join the redesign group.
More... Posted on Monday, September 1, 2008 - 23:41
I got a chance to interview MySQL European community manager Lenz Grimmer about how to grow your Drupal local group by engaging with a local MySQL community. If you are one of the 149 Drupal local group ambassadors, or would like to be, consider
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