On digital experiences, Open Source, startups & the future
On digital experiences, Open Source, startups & the future
My name is Dries Buytaert. I'm an Open Source developer, technology executive, academic, hobbyist photographer and father of two wonderful kids.
I'm the founder and project lead of Drupal, an Open Source platform for building websites and digital experiences. Drupal is used by 2% of the world's websites and has 35,000 active contributors around the world. I spent my entire professional career in Open Source, and believe it to be a superior innovation and collaboration model.
I'm also co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Acquia, a venture-backed technology company. Acquia employs over 750 people and provides the technology platform that helps many large organizations build and operate their digital experiences using Drupal.
I'm a Young Global Leader at the World Economic Forum.
I hold a PhD in computer science and engineering from Ghent University and a Licentiate Computer Science (MsC) from the University of Antwerp.
I love learning about innovative ideas that might change the world for our generation or generations to come, and love interacting with the people who bring them to life.
I'm passionate about investing and personal finance, and occasionally invest in startups.
My friends describe me as a "workaholic". It's true I work a lot, but it's exciting to see how many people and organizations Drupal and Acquia touch and the impact we can make.
I was born and raised in Antwerp (Belgium), but moved to the Boston (United States) in 2010. I love to travel and usually fly over 250,000 km (155,000 miles) a year. When I'm not working or traveling, I enjoy the simple things. Watching a good movie with friends and family, reading non-fiction, playing tennis, having fun with spreadsheets, or trying out a new restaurant.
All of these interests -- Drupal, Open Source, startups, business, investing and the future are all themes of this blog. I've been writing on this blog for over 10 years. Writing, in many ways, pushes me to think; writing is my process to flesh out ideas. I use this blog to think out loud in a public space, and to start conversations with people thinking about the same topics.
My Myers-Briggs personality type is ENTJ.
I tweet from @Dries and can be contacted through contact form.
In 2007 I co-founded Acquia. Acquia helps enterprises build digital experience quickly, easily and with a lower total cost of ownership by leveraging Drupal. Our SaaS and PaaS products enable companies to leverage the power, flexibility, technical innovation and economic value of Drupal while simplifying the experience, removing the complexity and minimizing the risk.
Acquia currently employs more than 700 people across 10 offices in the world, and has raised over $180 million dollar. In 2011, Forbes elected Acquia as one of the Top 100 Most Promising Companies. In 2012, Inc declared Acquia the fastest growing private software company in the United States.
Java Performance Evaluation through Rigorous Replay Compilation,
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In proceedings of the ACM conference on object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications (OOPSLA '08), Nashville, USA,
October 2008.
Using HPM-sampling to drive dynamic compilation,
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In proceedings of the ACM conference on object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications (OOPSLA '07), Montreal, Canada,
October 2007.
Statistically rigorous Java performance evaluation,
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In proceedings of the ACM conference on object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications (OOPSLA '07), Montreal, Canada,
October 2007.
Javana: a system for building customized Java program analysis tools,
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In proceedings of the ACM conference on object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications (OOPSLA '06), Portland, USA,
October 2006.
Building Java Program analysis tools using Javana,
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In proceedings of the ACM conference on object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications (OOPSLA '06 companion), Portland, USA,
October 2006.
GCH: Hints for Triggering Garbage Collections,
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Transactions on High-Performance Embedded Architectures and Compilers, 1(1):52-72,
June 2006.
Garbage collection hints,
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In Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 3793, Springer-Verlag. In proceeding of the international conference on high performance embedded architectures & compilers (HIPEAC'05), Barcelona, Spain,
November 2005.
FPGA-aware garbage collection in Java,
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In proceedings of the international conference on field programmable logic and applications (FPL'05), Tampere, Finland,
August 2005.
Bottleneck analysis in Java applications using hardware performance monitors,
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In proceedings of the ACM conference on object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications (OOPSLA '04 companion), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada,
October 2004.
Method-level phase behavior in Java workloads,
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In proceedings of the ACM conference on object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications (OOPSLA '04), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada,
October 2004.
A profiler and compiler for the Wonka Virtual Machine,
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In proceedings of the second Java Virtual Machine research and technology symposium (JVM '02), WIP session, San Francisco, USA,
August 2002.