Drupal community adventure guide
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- Drupal community adventure guide at Acquia
- Board Member at Drupal Association
- Drupal.org redesign lead, infrastructure team and fundraiser, admin,security and testing coordinator at Drupal.org
- Founder and CTO at CivicSpace LLC
- Past
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- Personal Adventure at Personal Adventure
- Technical Lead at IBM Extreme Blue Program
- Object Team Developer at IBM Global Services
- Board Member at Waterloo Cooperative Residence Incorporated
- Director of Technology at Skyline Public Works
- Education
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- University of Waterloo
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Kieran Lal’s Summary
I am a passionate technical leader. I am interested in building, and motivating teams to create innovative products. I am interested in the challenges of creating a great user experience and working directly with users to build software to meet their goals.
I have led technical teams and designers for over eight years, at IBM, and across the world through open source projects, like Drupal.
I am interested in helping to build software products and platforms and designing a great user experience for this software.
Kieran Lal’s Experience
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Drupal community adventure guide
Acquia
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
December 2007 — Present (1 year 8 months)
I am the Drupal community adventure guide for Acquia, working with the large organic open source Drupal community.
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Board Member
Drupal Association
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
January 2007 — Present (2 years 7 months)
Board member for the Drupal association. Focus on fundraising, investments in the Drupal project infrastructure.
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Drupal.org redesign lead, infrastructure team and fundraiser, admin,security and testing coordinator
Drupal.org
(Computer Software industry)
2006 — Present (3 years)
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Founder and CTO
CivicSpace LLC
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
January 2005 — Present (4 years 7 months)
CivicSpace LLC develops the Open Source community organizing platform, CivicSpace, based on the Drupal web site content management framework and the CiviCRM contact relationship manager. We are located in San Francisco, but work with a development community around the world and with community leaders through out the United States and Canada.
We focus on helping communities share their ideas, self-organize, and create value through their network of communities, and improve the user experience of Drupal. -
Personal Adventure
Personal Adventure
(Information Technology and Services industry)
August 2003 — December 2004 (1 year 5 months)
In 2003 I pursued a life goal of hiking 1000 miles on the Pacific Crest Trail and running 300 miles in an endurance run along the Lycian Way in Turkey. I was also married and received my green card in later half of 2004. I turned a passion for programming in Drupal into a full time position.
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Technical Lead
IBM Extreme Blue Program
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Computer Software industry)
March 2000 — August 2003 (3 years 6 months)
Co-Founded innovative and entrepreneurial Extreme Blue lab in IBM research and developed it into an international program and brand in over a dozen locations around the world. Created and replicated a multi-discipline culture with leading intellectual property generation at IBM.
Identified and developed over 30 prototypes from IBM CS Research, Storage, Server, Services, Software, and Technology Group.
Created and inspired project teams comprised of 3 programmers, an MBA, senior executives and senior technical talent. Motivated and challenged up to 6 teams simultaneously to be inventive and create new markets. Seventy percent of programmers and MBAs took full-time positions in IBM based on their positive experiences in the lab.Taught team best practices training including: interviewing, team building, software engineering, product development, prototyping, testing, architecture review, code inspections, and selling.
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Object Team Developer
IBM Global Services
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Computer Software industry)
April 1998 — March 2000 (2 years)
Programmed a PKI 30 server network application framework
Programmed and collaborated with 20 developer unit test framework for 1M line C++ code base
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Board Member
Waterloo Cooperative Residence Incorporated
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
February 1994 — April 1996 (2 years 3 months)
Board member Waterloo Cooperative Residence Incorporate
-Set policy for $15M student housing cooperative
-lead re-engineering effort to improve management and financial health of the organization -
Director of Technology
Skyline Public Works
(Computer Software industry)
1995 — 1996 (1 year)
Kieran Lal’s Education
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University of Waterloo
B.a.Sc , Systems Design Engineering , April 1997
Focus on HCI and Cognitive Science
- Activities and Societies:
- Speaker Waterloo Engineering Society
Waterloo Co-operative Residence Incorporated, Member Board of Directors
Additional Information
Kieran Lal’s Websites:
Kieran Lal’s Interests:
-2200 miles hiking Appalachian Tr. & 1000 Mi. Pacific Crest Tr. -50 miles Ultra Marathon, fastest first timer award. -300 miles Adventure run Lycian Way, Turkey -8000 miles Adventure Cycling US, Canada, South America -Reading academic business and technical papers for ideas
Kieran Lal’s Honors:
IBM Software Group Outstanding Achievement Award 2000
Technical lead for 5 projects selected to be presented to IBM CEO or Board of Directors
Technical lead for prototypes which successfully led to innovations and industry standards
Lifetime Membership Award for leading re-engineering of $15M Housing Cooperative
