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Location United States
Current Role(s): 
Founder
Blisstering Solutions

Professional Info

Companies Worked For
CareSeek, Inc., Oracle, SAS Institute, HiveTech, Sybase, UniSQL
Industries Worked In: 
Distributed Systems, Web development, Information and Data Architecture, Business Intelligence & Analytics, Content Management

On Drupal.org for 16 years 6 months

Bio: 

Sunit Gala is the founder and CEO of Blisstering Solutions, a Drupal shop focused on applications which need synchronized mobile, voice/IVR, social media and web transactions. Most recently, he was VP of Product Development at CareSeek, a Web 2.0 start-up in the Healthcare space. Prior to that he was at Oracle responsible for Pre-sales Enablement and Solutioning for all Business Intelligence product lines in the North American Sales organization, a $100 million business. Sunit has held technical and management positions at Oracle, Sybase, SAS Institute and UniSQL.

Sunit has published over 20 academic articles on object-relational, distributed and semantic database systems. He earned a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Florida, Gainesville, and BE (Instrumentation) from BITS Pilani, India.

Drupal Contributions: 

Description
Company Overview:(www.blisstering.com)

We are a Drupal consulting shop headquartered in San Francisco Bay Area specializing in custom and white label solutions at the convergence of Web, Voice and Mobile. We deliver to our customers the kind of services and the quality at a fraction of the costs incurred by Fortune 500 companies to acquire the same. Over the years, we have developed an array cost effective solutions for various services based on open source technologies.

Contributions to Drupal:

• Peanutlabsmedia Module :

This module provides a way to integrate with Peanutlabsmedia.The Peanut Labs Media Monetization Platform is designed specifically to work with virtual currencies and goods in the new digital economy - be they social applications on Facebook, Myspace or Linkedin, or leading Games and Gaming communities.

We are planning to contribute many modules that we developed in the coming next days. You can find the list of modules that we are planning to contribute in the below note and attached presentation.

• Birthday – Integrates with Drupal node service and organic groups to display birthdays/anniversaries of friends/acquaintances to the concerned user. This feature is a replica of the same feature on Facebook for Drupal.
• Betting – This module allows creation of bets on a Drupal site. A user can bet a certain amount of userpoints which are earned through various activities on the website.
• Autogroup – This module allows auto creation of groups associated with a particular node. For example, if we create a cck type corresponding to a celebrity, then a group (possibly denoting a fan club) can be automatically associated with each celebrity cck node using this module.
• Twitter Integration – Aggregates tweets from Twitter for specific keywords. These keywords can be mapped to nodes so that the tweets become associated to a node.
• Movie History – Allows a user to capture his movie history and share it with friends, This can be extended to record any kind of user information. The associated movie search is integrated with IMDB.
• Jobs/Classifieds- Creates a classified and job portal setup for Drupal.
• Alertpay Payment Gateway - Integrates this payment gateway with the Ubercart e-commerce solution
• RUCeleb – This module allows a user to claim ownership of a node or a page in Drupal. S/he can apply for ownership, and once approved by an administrator, s/he is the owner of that node.

Drupal Community Interactions :

* DrupalCon, SF – Bronze Sponsor in the upcoming Drupal Conference in San Francisco in April 2010
* Drupal Sprint, India – m2Serve – A Multimodal Media Delivery and Content Management Platform
* Drupal Camp, India – Syncing Databases in Drupal – Migraine
* Drupal Camp, SF – iLoveBolly Drupal Case Study
* Drupal Association -- Organization Member
* Drupal Channels on Internet Chat Relay - IRC

We offer drupal courses through our training subsidiary: www.OpenComputingInstitute.com

Areas of Expertise: 
Site builder
Project Manager
Drupal events: 
DrupalCon San Francisco 2010
DrupalCon Chicago 2011
DrupalCon Portland 2013
DrupalCon Austin 2014
DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015
My mentors: 

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