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Dries Buytaert

1978 - Today

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Dries Buytaert (born 19 November 1978) is a Belgian open-source software programmer. He is the founder and lead developer of the Drupal content management system. He also serves as the CTO of Acquia. As a long-time advocate for the open web, Buytaert has emphasized the need to preserve the internet as a public good, warning against growing consolidation by proprietary platforms. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Dries Buytaert is the 252nd most popular computer scientist (down from 239th in 2024). (down from 5,140th in 2019)

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Dries Buytaert ranks 252 out of 245. Before him are Andrew Tridgell, Hamza Bendelladj, Rich Skrenta, Eric Bina, Jordan Hubbard, and Dave Hyatt. After him are Valerie Aurora, John Resig, Jamie Zawinski, Timnit Gebru, Justin Frankel, and Manindra Agrawal.

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Among people born in 1978, Dries Buytaert ranks 1,327. Before him are Franco Marvulli, Sonja Fuss, Wes Moore, Johanna Sjöberg, Debbie Dunn, and Yin Jian. After him are Szilvia Szabó, María Alejandra Vicuña, Vyacheslav Pozdnyakov, Takashi Miyazawa, Yui Yatyer, and Nikolai Kryukov.

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