Michael E. Meyers joined Tag1 Consulting as Managing Director in 2017 after a decade of working with the team on many projects.

Prior to joining Tag1, Michael was VP of Developer Relations at Acquia, responsible for developer marketing & events, developer relations, and helped launch the developer products group. Michael co-founded & was CTO of NowPublic.com, the first venture-backed Drupal based startup that pioneered citizen journalism. With the help of Tag1, he grew NowPublic into a top 500 website. As CTO of The Clarity Digital Group, which acquired NowPublic, Michael and the Tag1 team rebuilt Examiner.com, the first Drupal-based top 100 Internet site, and the leading contributor to Drupal 7.

Michael has made major contributions to and helped establish Drupal as one of the most successful open source platforms; He’s an advisor to the Drupal Association board and several startup companies.

Michael E. Meyers joined Tag1 Consulting as Managing Director in 2017 after a decade of working with the team on many projects.

Prior to joining Tag1, Michael was VP of Developer Relations at Acquia, responsible for developer marketing & events, developer relations, and helped launch the developer products group. Michael co-founded & was CTO of NowPublic.com, the first venture-backed Drupal based startup that pioneered citizen journalism. With the help of Tag1, he grew NowPublic into a top 500 website. As CTO of The Clarity Digital Group, which acquired NowPublic, Michael and the Tag1 team rebuilt Examiner.com, the first Drupal-based top 100 Internet site, and the leading contributor to Drupal 7.

Michael has made major contributions to and helped establish Drupal as one of the most successful open source platforms; He’s an advisor to the Drupal Association board and several startup companies.

Michael E. Meyers joined Tag1 Consulting as Managing Director in 2017 after a decade of working with the team on many projects.

Prior to joining Tag1, Michael was VP of Developer Relations at Acquia, responsible for developer marketing & events, developer relations, and helped launch the developer products group. Michael co-founded & was CTO of NowPublic.com, the first venture-backed Drupal based startup that pioneered citizen journalism. With the help of Tag1, he grew NowPublic into a top 500 website. As CTO of The Clarity Digital Group, which acquired NowPublic, Michael and the Tag1 team rebuilt Examiner.com, the first Drupal-based top 100 Internet site, and the leading contributor to Drupal 7.

Michael has made major contributions to and helped establish Drupal as one of the most successful open source platforms; He’s an advisor to the Drupal Association board and several startup companies.

Fabian enjoys architecting large websites for Universities, Non-Profits and Startups. He has done innovative work in terms of Scalability and High Performance for Drupal and Mobile Development. He is in general passionate about everything Open Source since GNU was born, which as it happens, is the same day as his birthday.

Fabian is always up to a challenge and has been an active Contributor to Drupal since 2009. He has spoken at DrupalCon Denver, DrupalCon Munich and DrupalCon Portland. In 2012 he started the work to get Twig into Core together with Jen Lampton and succeeded just 30 days after he learned about the project - thanks to a ton of pre-work by the community! Now he is the Technical Lead of the Twig initiative and helps with other contributions to core and he is just loving it.

Interests: High Performance, High Availability, Twig, Drupal (of course), Open Source and Salsa-Dancing

Jeremy founded Tag1 Consulting in 2007. He has been a contributing core Drupal developer since 2002, and helped establish Drupal as a successful CMS through the early popularity of his personal blog, KernelTrap.org. Over the years, he authored and maintained the core statistics module and throttle module, as well as the pager logic and the initial Drupal 5 installer. He continues to contribute to the Drupal caching layer, offers optimizations to the bootstrap process, and maintains a high performance patchset. He actively maintains numerous Drupal modules including the spam module, the support module, the ad module, and the dba module. Beyond Drupal, Jeremy is a networking guru that has maintained the source code for a UNIX-kernel based, EAL5+ certified, commercial firewall.

Mark has been using Drupal since version 5 and joined the Drupal community in 2009. Starting as a general site-builder, he has managed and maintained multiple sites including ones for entire school districts, real estate agencies, photography and several high profile companies.

Over the years, his front-end focus of Drupal has expanded to include some back-end aspects of Drupal. Often referred to as a "unicorn", Mark bridges the gap between implementing beautiful front-end designs and enhancing back-end functionality.

He maintains several highly used contrib projects on drupal.org, including Drupal Bootstrap and Drupal Markdown.

Mark lives in Texas with his husband and dog. Some of their favorite activities include crafting, gaming, camping, hiking, and traveling.

Narayan is a co-owner of Tag1 Consulting, who joined the team in 2008. He was introduced to Drupal during his tenure at the Oregon State University Open Source Lab where he was the co-lead system administrator, and served as their Database Administrator of over 180 MySQL databases, the Freenode Server administrator, and the Drupal.org Server Administrator. He is a permanent member of the Drupal Association as their Systems Coordinator, and is a member of the Drupal.org infrastructure team. He is also a co-maintainer of the Pressflow high performance Drupal distribution. Narayan is a co-author of the O'Reilly book High Performance Drupal.

Outside of Drupal, Narayan has been deeply involved in the FreeBSD, Gentoo and Slackware communities. He was a contributing editor and system administrator of a popular Linux community website. As a Google Summer of Code student he developed the KDE front-end to the SUSE System Update server, and became a KDE core committer in 2007. He also ported and updated the XML-RPC system to KDE3 and KDE4.

More recently, he acted as infrastructure lead for the examiner.com 2.0 re-launch and infrastructure lead for the drupal.org redesign launch. Narayan is currently Chief Technology Officer at Tag1 Consulting.

Narayan is a co-owner of Tag1 Consulting, who joined the team in 2008. He was introduced to Drupal during his tenure at the Oregon State University Open Source Lab where he was the co-lead system administrator, and served as their Database Administrator of over 180 MySQL databases, the Freenode Server administrator, and the Drupal.org Server Administrator. He is a permanent member of the Drupal Association as their Systems Coordinator, and is a member of the Drupal.org infrastructure team. He is also a co-maintainer of the Pressflow high performance Drupal distribution. Narayan is a co-author of the O'Reilly book High Performance Drupal.

Outside of Drupal, Narayan has been deeply involved in the FreeBSD, Gentoo and Slackware communities. He was a contributing editor and system administrator of a popular Linux community website. As a Google Summer of Code student he developed the KDE front-end to the SUSE System Update server, and became a KDE core committer in 2007. He also ported and updated the XML-RPC system to KDE3 and KDE4.

More recently, he acted as infrastructure lead for the examiner.com 2.0 re-launch and infrastructure lead for the drupal.org redesign launch. Narayan is currently Chief Technology Officer at Tag1 Consulting.

Dylan has over two decades of experience managing teams working in software development, hosting, and digital media. He likes to bring order to chaos, delivering consistent value using agile project management methodologies. He lives in Colorado with his family.

Jeff is a Partner and CIO at Tag1 Consulting where he works with clients of all sizes to create and maintain secure, automated, and high performance server infrastructures. A proponent of configuration management systems before Chef and Puppet existed, he leverages those and other tools to quickly deploy scalable infrastructures to support high traffic websites and applications.

Jeff brings over 20 years of leadership in IT strategy, open source software, and large-scale system administration. Jeff's commitment to excellence ensures Tag1 stays at the forefront of industry advancements, delivering robust and scalable technology frameworks. He also co-authored the O'Reilly High Performance Drupal book.