Mr. David Strauss is a Co-Founder of Pantheon Systems, Inc. and serves as its Chief Technology Officer. Mr. Strauss co-maintains the systemd/udev layer that runs at the core of every major Linux distribution. He co-founded Four Kitchens, a successful web development shop, found himself gravitating away from custom client work and toward infrastructure solutions; Large clients like Creative Commons, Internet Archive, The Economist, and Wikimedia had already benefited from his scalability and database optimization work. He serves on the Advisory Board for the Drupal Association, contributes to the infrastructure and security teams at Drupal.org, and led the architecture of Pressflow and Drupal’s configuration management APIs.