Moshe Weitzman
Moshe was the first American to contribute to Drupal. He joined Drupal in 2001, and has been a consistent technical and organizational leader ever since. Moshe maintains the user, comment, and bootstrap subsystems, and Drupal's CLI tool Drush. Read Moshe's AMA on Reddit.
Work Experience
Freelance Architect
Developer Workflow Specialist
April 2016 – present
Lead architect on major Drupal 8 rollouts:
- www.mass.gov. Scaling & Security lead. Built Github+CircleCI+Acquia dev workflow.
- BioRAFT. Architected a D8 config sharing solution for hundreds of bio/pharma clients.
- Beobachter, Gault Millau. Architected a D8 solution for Ringier Axel Springer publisher.
Work Experience
Acquia
Director, Office of the CTO
July 2011 – April 2016 (5 years)
Prototyped new personalization and real-time collaboration products. Led these Drupal 8 innovations:
- Added responsive design to Drupal’s end user and admin experiences.
- Added RESTful web services.
- Added an upgrade path.
- Vastly improved performance.
Work Experience
Cyrve
Founder, CEO
November 2006 – July 2011 (5 years)
Founded a small consultancy which replatformed large web sites onto Drupal:
Work Experience
Vistaprint
Manager, Capabilities Development
September 2002 – April 2006 (3 years)
Program Manager for the Support the Business group. Designed business processes and corresponding web applications for:
- Purchase approval/tracking
- Job applicant tracking
- Employee performance evaluations
- Knowledgebase/Intranet
Open Source
- Drush: The command line shell for Drupal. (1676 )
- Devel: Essential developer tools for Drupal. (running on 231,600 sites)
- Migrate: The standard for migrating content into Drupal.
- Drupal Groups: Founded a site similar to meetup.com for the Drupal community.
Giving Back
- I am an officer on the Board of Directors at Waltham Fields Community Farm. This farm runs a large CSA, education programs, and hunger relief programs.
- Soccer coach for both of my daughters.
- Member of the Drupal Security Team.
- I lead the Boston Drupal meetup.
Passion Projects
- Diffi: My public Git repository of privacy and TOS policies. Tracks changes over time. Powered by Node.js and Heroku.
- Buster: My bus arrival skill for Amazon’s Alexa platform. Powered by Node.js and AWS Lambda.
- Serverless: Contributing to this orchestration app for AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, S3, …).
- Apollo Stack: Contributing to this data stack around GraphQL.
Education
University of Pennsylvania
BS, Materials Engineering
1994 – 1998
- Studied behavior of metals, ceramics, and plastics.
- Research intern with the National Science Foundation.
- Summer intern for architects and field engineers at J.F. White.
- Concentration in entrepreneurship at Wharton Business School.
About this resume
Many have asked how I made this resume:
- Lives in a repo on Github. You can submit a PR.
- Is a Jekyll site, served by Github Pages.
- I edit via the web and the resume is instantly re-published.
- The content are Markdown files.
- Styles are authored in SASS.
- Based on ResumeCards.