Dries Buytaert

Dries Buytaert ( born November 19, 1978 in Wilrijk (Antwerp ), Belgium) is a programmer of open source software and the founder and lead developer of the Drupal CMS. Buytaert defended his thesis in computer science on 27 January 2008 at the University of Ghent in Belgium.

From 1999 to 2000 he was the maintainer of GNU / Linux WiFi FAQ.

On December 1, 2007 Buytaert announced together with Jay Batson the establishment of startups Acquia. Acquia is a commercial open source company that offers products and services for Drupal. 2009 Acquia was involved in the conversion from Whitehouse.gov to Drupal ..

On 31 March 2008 founded Buytaert Mollom, a service for spam rejection. Over 15,000 websites are protected by Mollom, including all Netlog messages ..

2008 Buytaert was elected by BusinessWeek as "Young Entrepreneurs of Tech" also he was one of MIT TR 35 Young Innovator.