David Strauss has world-class Drupal experience form his work with the Wikimedia Foundation, Creative Commons, the Economist, Mansueto Ventures, Lifetime TV, NBC-Universal, and the Internet Archive. David is well-known in the Drupal community as an expert in scalability and database optimization and is a member of the Drupal.org infrastructure team. He serves as a chair on the session committee for the upcoming Drupalcon DC 2009 in March and is a Permanent Member of the Drupal Association.