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, August 25, 2008 - 11:43
I have been meeting a lot of interesting people on the road, and lately it's been librarians. It turns out that a lot of libraries love Drupal. I've put together a showcase video of libraries that use Drupal. Next time you are at your library,
More... Posted on Monday, August 11, 2008 - 10:02
We had over a dozen volunteers from the South Bay, San Francisco, and Berkeley group at the Drupal booth. We also had at least four people ask about a North Bay group. One of the problems when you have so many fun and interesting people working at
More... Posted on Friday, August 8, 2008 - 14:31
One of the unfortunate aspects of marketing events is the use of the Booth Babe. We were lucky to have Dmitri at our booth and we were joking at the Drupal booth that we were booth babes. More about LinuxWorld in San Francisco.
More... Posted on Monday, August 4, 2008 - 08:58
The Drupal community got together to help promote Drupal at Hostingcon, in Chicago last week. We learned some important lessons. One hosting company told us they were sponsoring their local Joomla group and had managed to grow it to over 300 users
More... Posted on Wednesday, July 30, 2008 - 17:45
Last night I met with Tiffany Farriss and Drupal association board member Larry Garfield at the Palantir offices in Chicago. I was in town for HostingCon. We reviewed the six proposals we received from 6 design firms.
The proposals are extensive
More... Posted on Monday, July 28, 2008 - 14:01
We have some good news for Acquia watchers: the Carbon distribution and Spokes network service have entered private alpha testing and are steadily marching towards beta.
We've been conducting internal alpha testing for Carbon and Spokes for a few
More... Posted on Monday, July 28, 2008 - 13:54
This year we had about a dozen members of the Drupal community show up to help run the Drupal booth at OSCON. We frequently needed at least 4 people at the booth to answer all the questions and still had people waiting to learn more. A large part
More... Posted on Thursday, July 17, 2008 - 18:47
Back in April and May the Acquia marketing team and I decided to jump into the frying pan with Drupal events and really see how successful we could be in spreading the word about Drupal and Acquia. We produced some good marketing content,
More... Posted on Tuesday, July 15, 2008 - 13:38
Last night the San Francisco user group celebrated Bastille Day at the Paris SoMa (South of Market) co-working office, and San Francisco office of AF83.com.
Greg Beuthin has done a great job building up the San Francisco users group over the last
More... Posted on Monday, July 14, 2008 - 13:53
In the month of June we enabled Google Analytics on Drupal.org as part of an effort to build a user experience toolkit. The toolkit was designed to provide insight on: what users were searching for, what traffic patterns and workflows vistors were
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