piyushpoddar

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Full Name
Piyush Poddar
About Me

Back in 2007, I was running a small digital agency where we used to develop websites for our clients using a homegrown content management system. It was a primary page rendering system and would often need custom development for any additional features on every project. That same year I attended an Open Source Software meetup in New Delhi, and came across Drupal, and was digitally enlightened. Coming from an MS stack world, learning about the Open Source Ethos was a huge eye-opener. It was the turning point of my career - I became a loyal user and advocate of Drupal and a passionate Open Source enthusiast since then.

Presently, as an executive leader at Axelerant, I’m part of the revenue team and responsible for the development of strategic partnerships and alliances in the EMEA and APAC regions.

As an active member of Drupal community, I have found the local Drupal user group in my city - Jaipur where we are planning to organize it’s first Drupalcamp in 2018. Having helped Drupal Association with organizing Drupalcon Asia in 2016, I regularly contribute towards assisting local communities in India in organizing meetups and camps in different cities. I’m also working with the community in Europe towards organizing Drupal Europe 2018 by co-chairing one of the tracks.

While a strong supporter of empowering Drupal professionals for overall community’s growth, I’m a firm believer that Drupal Agencies have to play a crucial role towards the success and adoption of Drupal along with growth and wellbeing of Drupal professionals. Only a growing and successful Drupal agency can provide to a Drupal professional, the required conducive work environment, and opportunities to grow and contribute back to the community. In order to further facilitated agency oriented growth conversations and networking I have also been co-organising Drupal Agency Leader Dinner Roundtables at Drupal Camps. After New Zealand and London, the next one is upcoming at Canberra in 2018.

I regularly write and speak at events about various topics ranging from the growth of Open Source and Contribution culture in India, helping global Drupal agencies grow their business via strategic account management, transformed outsourcing and success driven partnership frameworks.

In my free time, I enjoy mentoring and advising local technology startups.

Business

Organization Website
http://www.axelerant.com/
Organization
Axelerant
Organization Profile

Open Source. Engineered. | #Distributed #FOSS #AWS #Drupal #Chef #Hubot #Jenkins #Selenium #Agile #Cloud #DevOps

History

Number of times voted
14
Co-organized events
10
Submitted events
8
Organizer of groups
1
Member for
14 years 11 weeks
Primary profile
Profile on https://www.drupal.org/