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Current Role(s): 
Developer Experience, Cloud Services, HP
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Professional Info

Companies Worked For
Hewlett-Packard, About.com, ConsumerSearch.Com, Veritas-Health, Spine-Health, Palantir, Palantir.net, Aleph-Null
Industries Worked In: 
Publishing, Health Care, NGO, Marketing, Publishing, High Tech, Cloud Computing

Personal Info

Other languages: 
English

On Drupal.org for 16 years 5 months

Over 5 edits to documentation

Bio: 

Matt Butcher is a senior web developer with over a dozen years of experience. He is author of seven books, including four on Drupal. He contributes regularly to IBM DeveloperWorks and php|Architect. He maintains a handful of modules for Drupal (Including Kitten and Khaaaaaaan). He is also the lead on the QueryPath library, a PHP implementation of jQuery. Matt works at HP Cloud Services.

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Drupal Contributions: 

Maintainer of several modules, including Quiz and QueryPath. Author of the infamous kitten module (Hack core without the guilt).

Author of three (soon four) books on Drupal: Learning Drupal 6 Module Development and Drupal 6 JavaScript and jQuery. (I've also written countless articles and three other books on Open Source software.)

In IRC, you may find me hanging around in #drupal-quiz or #querypath. I often post articles on Drupal and PHP at http://technosophos.com. You can find me on Twitter at http://twitter.com/technosophos.

Drupal events: 
DrupalCon Boston 2008
DrupalCon Szeged, Hungary 2008
DrupalCon DC 2009
DrupalCon Paris 2009
DrupalCon Chicago 2011

Credited on 2 fixed issues

Projects maintained

My mentors: 

3 people list mbutcher as a mentor

I contributed Drupal modules
I contributed Drupal documentation
I provide Drupal-related services
I give support on IRC