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Location Santa Cruz, CA, USA
Current Role(s): 
Co-Founder & Product
QuantCDN
Founder
Itty Bitty Byte
Senior Technical Consultant
Salsa Digital
IRC: 
Kristen_Pol

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

Personal Info

Pronouns: 
she/her
Primary language: 
English
Other languages: 
English

On Drupal.org for 20 years 1 week

Over 100 edits to documentation

Bio: 

I've been a Drupal architect/developer for 18+ years (since Drupal 4). I'm an Acquia Grand Master. 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 Drupal programming projects and experience.

Contributor roles

  • Project contributor CreditAttribution: Salsa Digital
    From 2022-05 to present
    Started Contribution Events Project: https://www.drupal.org/project/contribution_events
  • Project contributor CreditAttribution: Salsa Digital
    From 2021-08 to present
    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: Salsa Digital
    From 2021-08 to present
    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 to present
    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 to present
    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 to present
    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 to present
    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 to present
    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 to present
    Creating Drupal 9 port and maintenance for Fast 404: https://www.drupal.org/project/fast_404
  • DrupalCamp speaker CreditAttribution: Salsa Digital
    From 2021-11 to present
    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 to present
    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 to present
    Reviewing and providing feedback for CivicTheme: https://www.drupal.org/project/civictheme
  • Project contributor CreditAttribution: Salsa Digital
    From 2022-02 until 2022-02
    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 to present
    Triage for Bug Smash Initiative and Contribution Events Initiative
  • Contributed module, theme, or distribution maintainer CreditAttribution: QuantCDN
    From 2022-05 to present
    QuantCDN module maintainer

Documentation guides

✓ Can opt projects into security advisory coverage

Drupal Contributions: 

Currently open to part-time sponsored (paid) open source Drupal contribution work for 5 to 10 hours per week.

I've been a Drupal architect/developer since 4/04 starting w/ Drupal 4.4 :)

I have these certifications

I have written these Drupal books

  1. Drupal 7 Multilingual Sites

I have contributed these Drupal modules

  1. Featured Content: http://drupal.org/project/featured_content
  2. SEO Friend: http://drupal.org/project/seo_friend
  3. Views Examples: http://drupal.org/project/views_examples

I have contributed these Drupal installation profiles

  1. Multilingual Drupal 7 Demo: http://drupal.org/project/multilingual_book_demo
  2. Drupal 8 Multilingual Demo: https://www.drupal.org/project/multilingual_demo

I presented talks/trainings at these 'cons, camps & meetings (and others, not listed :)

  1. Presented many sessions at DrupalCon, BADCamp, Stanford Camp, GovCMS, and other events in 2017/2018/2019/2020/2021/2022
  2. The Multilingual Makeover! A side-by-side comparison of Drupal 7 and Drupal 8 - DrupalCon New Orleans, May 2016 with Aimee Degnan
  3. Where's the fire? AKA: My site is down... now what? - DrupalCon New Orleans, May 2016
  4. The Multilingual Makeover! A side-by-side comparison of Drupal 7 and Drupal 8 - SFDUG, April 2016 with Aimee Degnan
  5. The Multilingual Makeover! A side-by-side comparison of Drupal 7 and Drupal 8 - Stanford Drupal Camp, April 2016 with Aimee Degnan
  6. Where's the fire? AKA: My site is down... now what? - Stanford Drupal Camp, April 2016
  7. Understanding the Dark Side: An Analysis of Drupal (and Other) Worst Practices - Stanford Drupal Camp, April 2016
  8. Drupal Multilingual for D7 and D8! - BAD Camp, November 2015 with Aimee Degnan
  9. Understanding the Dark Side: An Analysis of Drupal (and Other!) Worst Practices - BADCamp, October 2015
  10. Multilingual module madness! Which i18n modules do you really need? - DrupalCon Los Angeles, May 2015
  11. Multilingual module madness! Which i18n modules do you really need? - Stanford Drupal Camp, April 2015
  12. Drupal Site Tuneup | Vroom! Vroom! - Stanford Drupal Camp, April 2015
  13. Drupal 8 Multilingual Hands-On - BAD Camp, November 2014 with Aimee Degnan
  14. Drupal 7 Multilingual Hands-On All-Day Training - BAD Camp, November 2014 with Aimee Degnan
  15. Drupal SEO Basics: A Drupaler's Guide to the SEO Galaxy - BAD Camp, November 2014 with Aimee Degnan
  16. Drupal Site Tuneup | Vroom! Vroom! - DrupalCon Austin, June 2014
  17. Migrating from Drupal to Drupal - Stanford Drupal Camp, April 2014
  18. Drupal Site Tuneup | Vroom! Vroom! - Stanford Drupal Camp, April 2014
  19. Building Multilingual Sites with Drupal 7 - BADCamp, October 2013 with Aimee Degnan
  20. Multilingual Module Madness - BADCamp, October 2013
  21. Multilingual Module Madness - DrupalCon Portland, May 2013
  22. Multilingual Module Madness - East Bay Drupal User Group, April 2013
  23. Multilingual Module Madness - Stanford Drupal Camp, April 2013
  24. Drupal SEO Basics: A Drupaler's Guide to the SEO Galaxy - Stanford Drupal Camp, April 2013 with Aimee Degnan
  25. Drupal SEO Basics: A Drupaler's Guide to the SEO Galaxy - BADCamp Berkeley, November 2012 with Aimee Degnan
  26. Zero to Go in 13 days: The developer's perspective - Silicon Valley Drupal User Group meeting, July 2012
  27. Creating Multilingual Drupal 7 Sites, Parts 1 & 2 - Stanford Drupal Camp, May 2012
  28. Features in the Real World: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly - BADCamp Berkeley, October 2011
  29. Drupal SEO Basics - BADCamp Berkeley, November 2010
  30. Migrating a Custom Module from 6 to 7 - DrupalCamp Chicago, June 2010
  31. Drupal SEO Basics - Unconference at DrupalCon SF, April 2010
  32. DDBlock Galleries - Design4Drupal Stanford, January 2010
  33. Drupal SEO - BADCamp Berkeley, October 2009 with Jen Lampton

Here are some Drupal projects I've worked on

  1. eftf.ga.gov.au
  2. aeic.gov.au
  3. dea.ga.gov.au
  4. nationalnursesunited.org
  5. marageti.com
  6. gooverseas.com
  7. sunpower.com
  8. zicasso.com
  9. naturebridge.org
  10. boomerangproject.com
  11. classicvacations.com
  12. boomboomcards.com
  13. thesoundpost.com

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Areas of Expertise: 
Architecture
development
Site building
content strategy
Analytics
Search Engine Optimization
Multilingual
Project Management
Leadership
Mentoring
Drupal events: 
DrupalCon San Francisco 2010
DrupalCon Denver 2012
DrupalCon Portland 2013
DrupalCon Austin 2014
DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015
DrupalCon New Orleans 2016
DrupalCon Baltimore 2017
DrupalCon Vienna 2017
DrupalCon Nashville 2018
DrupalCon Seattle 2019
DrupalCon Minneapolis 2020 (was planning to attend)
DrupalCon Global 2020
DrupalCon Europe 2020
DrupalCon North America 2021
DrupalCon Europe 2021
DrupalCon Pittsburgh 2023

Credited on 1065 fixed issues

Projects maintained

Platinum Drupal Certified Partner
Drupal Association #DrupalCares Supporter
Drupal Association Individual Member

Kristen Pol helps support and grow the Drupal community with the Drupal Association.

21 people list Kristen Pol as a mentor

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I help in the Drupal support forums
I provide Drupal-related services
I give support on Slack
I give support on IRC
I help mentor new contributors