To seek, to strive, to find, and not to yield
I'd like to let everyone know that I have joined Acquia as a product manager. It's a position that naturally aligns with my interests and skills and all my activity in the Drupal community over the past few years.
As a product manager, I'll be helping define those value-added products and services that Dries and Jay have been talking about. I think it's going to be a lot of fun, and a great way to create value for the community.
Over four years ago, I set out on an adventure with three goals in mind. First of all, I wanted to help create a software platform. My early work experiences had taught me that the most value creation in software came from software platforms.
Secondly, I wanted to work with a lot of smart people. I had been completely spoiled, as full-time staff, with full access to all of IBM's research, product, and services groups. I knew the only other place with this caliber of resources was in open source. In the open source community, good code and ideas attract even more of the same.
Thirdly, having spent years working closely with some of the best computer scientists on the planet, I was confident that systems level software was on the right track. However, it seemed that a majority of the interesting innovations in software would be happening in HCI with the creation of new user experiences. With these goals in mind, I set off on my adventure.
I think I can best describe my philosophy on life with a quote from a famous Canadian, "I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been." - Wayne Gretzky.
Three years ago I discovered Drupal through CivicSpace and found a passion. Up until recently, my involvement in Drupal had always been as an outsider, looking inside.
My first contribution to Drupal was to unfork CivicSpace. From there I, a.k.a Amazon, worked on documentation. For the CivicSpace 4.6 release, we hired so many hobby developers from the community to get modules upgraded that Dries removed the commit notifications from the developers mailing list.
In August 2005, I met 35 members of the Drupal community at OSCON and was finally able to explain where I was skating to. I committed to three goals with Dries and Boris: support the project module, create a legal entity to support the Drupal project, and help improve the user experience.
Today I am working on a number of different projects related to Drupal, most of them are related to where I think the puck is going to be. These include advertising, memberships, project recommendations, marketing, Drupal.org redesign, scaling Drupal.org, test driven development, performance, coordinating the security team, improving APIs for Web services, and configuring and updating distributions of Drupal.
Acquia will sponsor some of my strategic efforts where it aligns with my role as product manager. At the same time, they have assured my independence for my work with the Drupal Association. This next adventure will support the Drupal community's growth and will create opportunities for new user experiences. If you would like to help, please contact me.
congratulations! given how
congratulations! given how much you've done for drupal, i would have been surprised if you weren't part of acquia. regardless, this is great news. best of luck!
Great news Kieran! We're
Great news Kieran! We're looking forward to continuing to work with you and evolving our relationship with Acquia. Going to be very exciting to see how the team there grows.
Kieran, congratulations! I
Kieran, congratulations! I think this is exactly the right job for you. Given your strong character (in a positive way!) I have no doubts about you safeguarding your independence as a member of the Drupal Association.
Kieran, This is great news!
Kieran,
This is great news! I am excited to hear what you all are going to be working on in the coming year.
Happy holidays!
Given that I'm relatively
Given that I'm relatively new to Drupal (almost a year now), I know little about Drupal's history before my time. It seems you've played a key role in many of Drupal's greatest advances. That alone should make you an excellent choice to work for Acquia, I think.
Thanks for all your contributions Kieran, and congratulations :)
Go Kieran! It's nice to know
Go Kieran!
It's nice to know that the future of Drupal is in good hands. The best of luck for all your journey ahead.
Congratulations Kieran!
Congratulations Kieran! Wow, what a fantastic opportunity! It seems like such a long road from our first encouter in the non-profit CiviSpace world, but it's only be a few years!
And what a team, huh? :-)
Congrats, Kieran! Good luck
Congrats, Kieran! Good luck on the new role.
An excellent fit.
An excellent fit. Congratulations, Kieran!
Congratulations Kieran! It
Congratulations Kieran! It will be great to have people like yourself working full-time on key Drupal improvements from a high level perspective. Looking forward to the days ahead!
Congratulations on the new
Congratulations on the new gig Kieran, I miss your energy and creativity here, but I'm glad to see that you're doing well. Good luck!
Congrats Kieran! You are a
Congrats Kieran! You are a perfect fit for this and I know you will bring the same passion and drive for excellence to this venture as you do to everything you undertake. Good luck!
Kieran, Congrats on the new
Kieran, Congrats on the new gig. Sounds really exciting!
Congrats, sounds like a
Congrats, sounds like a perfect match. One note - Wayne Gretzky with a Z.....
Kieran, Congrats on the new
Kieran,
Congrats on the new role! It is great to see you are thriving! I hope we get a chance to catch up in person sometime soon.
Cheers,
Trey
Congrats! It's great to see
Congrats! It's great to see this all coming together.
Congrats! -Jake my
Congrats!
-Jake
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