Florian Loretan

Coming from an academic background with a BA in mathematics and computer science, Florian started working with Drupal in 2005, a passion which turned into a full-time job two years later. As a Drupal developer, he has worked on many large social networking projects and has provided consulting services to many well-established web development agencies. His contributions include modules and themes as well as many core patches.

Originally from Switzerland, Florian has also been an active member in many communities worldwide. He was a core organizer for the first Drupal Dev Days, a track chair for DrupalCon Copenhagen and he has participated in the organisation of many other events. He has given presentations at DrupalCons, DrupalCamps and various local communities from Geneva to San Diego.

Florian is a co-author of the Definitive Guide to Drupal 7,  and has been writing about Drupal for a long time on his personal blog at Happy Pixels

Specialties include: module development, deployment, features, simpletest, major upgrades, data migration, openlayers, multilanguage, e-commerce and the famous guitar.module.