Gaurav Kumar has been involved with the Drupal community for over 3 years now, starting with Drupal 5. He was a speaker and trainer at DrupalCon San Francisco, 2010 and Drupal Camp, India 2009. Gaurav works as a Team Lead at Blisstering Solutions and is currently working on building a foreign exchange trading platform using Drupal.

Training and Drupal Community Experience

• Drupal 7 and RDF - Speaker at Open Source India, 2010
• Maintainer for the project, Mailalias and contributor for the project Unwrap on Drupal.org.
• Conducted a day long “Drupal Module Development” training at DrupalCon, San Francisco 2010
• Conducted a Birds-of-feather session on “VOIP solutions using Drupal” at DrupalCon, San Francisco 2010
• Speaker at Drupal Sprint India, Pune, 2010 – Multimodal transactional frameworks and Drupal
• Speaker at Drupal Camp India, Pune, 2009 – Use cases and technology demonstrations for Social Networks and the CMS in the Web 2.0 scenario
• Associate Faculty member at the Open Computing Institute, training students in Drupal (Architecture, Module and Theme development), Performance and Scalability of Web-based solutions and multi-modal solutions
• Performed for a good cause at Drupal Camp, Pune, India : The Drupal Song

Professional Experience

• Lead Architect and Product Manager for m2Serve, a multimodal (WAP, IVR, IPTV, DTH, OBD, Web 2.0) transactional framework in use by multiple telecommunication companies in India.
• Core Developer for the BollySongs and iLoveBolly applications for Facebook, Bollysongs being the largest application on Facebook for Indian music.
• Core developer of the team that designed and implemented iLoveBolly.com, a social networking website for the Indian entertainment industry, with more than 300,000 pieces of multi-media content (songs, videos, celebrities, movies, ...)
• Core developer for SocialDomo, an advertising campaign application for Twitter, similar to Google's AdWords but only for Twitter.