kristen pol

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Santa Cruz, CA, USA

Current Role(s):

Co-Founder & Product

Drupal AI Program Manager & Senior Technical and Open Source Consultant

Founder

Professional Info

Companies Worked For

Hook 42, CruzTech, Lutris Technologies, Hewlett Packard, UC Santa Cruz

Industries Worked In:

Fortune 1000, Enterprise, Higher Education, Nonprofit, Startup, Travel, High Tech, Agency, Freelance, Consulting

http://www.kristen.org

https://www.ittybittybyte.io

Personal Info

Pronouns:

she/her

Primary language:

English

Other languages:

English

On Drupal.org for 21 years 12 months

Over 100 edits to documentation

Bio:

I'm the Drupal AI Program Manager for the Drupal AI Initiative and the project lead for the Context Control Center, among other hats.

I've been a Drupal architect/developer for 21+ years (since Drupal 4), and have been heavily involved in the community since around 2009. I've co-founded Drupal-focused and related companies. I even wrote a book about Drupal back in the day. :)

If you are new to Drupal, feel free to use the contact form to say "hi". Check out my open source software programming projects and experience.

Contributor roles

Project contributor CreditAttribution: Salsa Digital
From 2022-05 until 2024-12

Started Contribution Events Project: https://www.drupal.org/project/contribution_events
Project contributor CreditAttribution: Salsa Digital
From 2021-08 until 2024-12

Contributing to Drupal 10 Readiness Initiative: https://www.drupal.org/about/core/strategic-initiatives/drupal10
Project contributor CreditAttribution: Salsa Digital
From 2021-08 to present

Contributing to Bug Smash Initiative: https://www.drupal.org/community-initiatives/bug-smash-initiative
Project contributor CreditAttribution: Itty Bitty Byte
From 2021-08 until 2024-12

Contributing to Mentoring project: https://www.drupal.org/community/mentoring
Contributed module, theme, or distribution maintainer CreditAttribution: Salsa Digital
From 2021-08 to present

Creation and maintenance for Media Vimeo Domain Privacy: https://www.drupal.org/project/media_vimeo_domain_privacy
Contributed module, theme, or distribution maintainer CreditAttribution: Salsa Digital
From 2021-09 until 2025-06

Drupal 9 port for Section Purger module: https://www.drupal.org/project/section_purge
DrupalCamp speaker CreditAttribution: Salsa Digital
From 2021-09 until 2021-09

Speaker at DrupalCon Europe 2021 - An ambitious digital experience platform for the future of Australia's government: https://events.drupal.org/europe2021/sessions/ambitious-digital-experience-platform-future-australias-government
DrupalCamp speaker CreditAttribution: Salsa Digital
From 2021-09 to present

Organized and led BoF at DrupalCon Europe 2021 - All things decoupled/headless BoF: https://events.drupal.org/europe2021/sessions/all-things-decoupledheadless-bof
DrupalCamp speaker CreditAttribution: Itty Bitty Byte
From 2021-04 to present

Keynote speaker for DrupalCon North America 2021 - Drupal 10 readiness initiative keynote: https://events.drupal.org/northamerica2021/sessions/drupal-10-readiness-initiative-keynote
Project contributor CreditAttribution: Salsa Digital
From 2021-11 to present

Contribution for DrupalSouth: https://drupalsouth.org/drupalsouth-21-schedule-11-November
DrupalCamp speaker CreditAttribution: Salsa Digital
From 2021-11 until 2021-12

Slide creation for DrupalSouth 2021 talk - An ambitious digital experience platform for the future of Australia's government (didn't end up co-speaking due to health issues): https://drupalsouth.org/events/drupalsouth-shorts-2021-drupal20/sessions/ambitious-digital-experience-platform-future
Mentor CreditAttribution: Salsa Digital
From 2021-09 until 2021-10

Mentoring summit: https://www.drupal.org/community/events/contribution-mentor-summit-2021-09-17
DrupalCamp speaker CreditAttribution: Salsa Digital
From 2021-10 until 2021-11

Speaker for GovCMS Innovation Showcase 2021 - Digital Earth Australia: https://www.govcms.gov.au/news-events/events/week-online-take-2-innovation-showcase
Project contributor CreditAttribution: Salsa Digital
From 2021-08 until 2021-08

Contributing to Drupal 9 Readiness Initiative including porting modules to Drupal 9 and helping with the Upgrade Status module: https://www.drupal.org/about/strategic-initiatives/drupal9
Contributed module, theme, or distribution maintainer CreditAttribution: Salsa Digital
From 2021-10 until 2022-12

Creating Drupal 9 port and maintenance for Search API Glossary: https://www.drupal.org/project/search_api_glossary
Contributed module, theme, or distribution maintainer CreditAttribution: Salsa Digital
From 2021-10 until 2021-12

Creating Drupal 9 port and maintenance for Fast 404: https://www.drupal.org/project/fast_404
DrupalCamp speaker CreditAttribution: Salsa Digital
From 2021-11 until 2021-12

Speaker at Melbourne meetup demoing Geoscience Australia project: https://www.dea.ga.gov.au/
Project contributor CreditAttribution: Salsa Digital
From 2021-11 until 2021-11

GovCMS community sprint days 2021: https://www.govcms.gov.au/news-events/events/week-online-take-2-community-sprint-day-1
Project contributor CreditAttribution: Salsa Digital
From 2021-08 to present

Contributing to DrupalPod by testing, finding bugs, and providing feedback: https://www.drupal.org/project/drupalpod
Project contributor CreditAttribution: Salsa Digital
From 2022-01 until 2022-12

Contributing for Global Contribution Weekend: https://www.drupal.org/community/events/drupal-global-contribution-weekend-2021-2021
Project contributor CreditAttribution: Salsa Digital
From 2022-04 until 2022-05

Reviewing and providing feedback for CivicTheme: https://www.drupal.org/project/civictheme
Project contributor CreditAttribution: Salsa Digital
From 2022-02 until 2025-12

Reviewing and providing feedback for GitLab initiative: https://www.drupal.org/drupalorg/roadmap/gitlab-acceleration
Project contributor CreditAttribution: Bluehorn Digital
From 2021-08 until 2022-01

Triage for Bug Smash Initiative
Project contributor CreditAttribution: OPTASY
From 2021-08 until 2021-10

Triage for Bug Smash Initiative and Contribution Events Initiative
Contributed module, theme, or distribution maintainer CreditAttribution: QuantCDN
From 2022-05 until 2022-12

QuantCDN module maintainer