Franz Joseph Hartl, JD 
Franz is the Web Development Manager for Yale University and is responsible for Yale’s internal distribution of Drupal 7, called Yale Sites.   He has working with Drupal since 2004.   Prior to Yale, he has worked for Georgetown University, the Drupal Development Firm Advomatic, and Music for America – an organization that was powered by the early Drupal project called CivicSpace.

Franz holds a BA from Boston College and a JD from Fordham Law

Josh Koenig
 

When a developer tells Josh Koenig how happy they are, that the drudge work has been automated and now they can handle more and larger projects, he knows it’s only a matter of time. Open source just took one step closer to world (or at least world-wide-web) domination. 

As Co-Founder and Head of Developer Experience, Josh believes the clues to Pantheon’s destiny are in its developer DNA: best practices, modular architecture, high performance are key for all websites whether it’s a personal hobby project or a major enterprise launch. And Josh believes all this should be easy and fast. Developers need tools that let them tackle more and bigger projects with less stress and worry, and that’s what he works on 

As a very early Drupal adopter (user #3313), Josh was part of the team that drove the first high-profile public Drupal use-case with the Howard Dean campaign in 2003. He went on to found the Drupal Dojo, an online learning community for developers, and to co-found the premiere Drupal agency in San Francisco, Chapter Three. 

Demand for open source website technology is high and getting higher, but the the lack of readily available services presented too many challenges for widespread adoption. Developers and organizations didn’t need big support contracts to build faster, more scalable websites — they needed better tools to do it themselves. Today, Josh lives for the spark in a developer’s eye when they realize “there’s a best practice for that,” and it’s already built into Pantheon, the professional website platform.

Vincent Massaro
Vincent is the lead developer for Drupal at Yale University and is responsible for building and supporting the Yalesites platform. He has worked with Drupal since 2009, when Yale first deployed a large-scale on-premise Drupal 6 environment.

Steve Persch

Steve is a developer with 10 years of experience building WordPress and Drupal sites. While interning at a theatre company in college, Steve overheard the artistic director say they needed a blog and an online magazine. Steve volunteered to build the sites and WordPress 2.0.4 got the job done. His path was changed and he's been building sites since.

Steve spent much of his career at Palantir.net, a Drupal-focused web agency. Working at Palantir, Steve built sites for a range of clients including Foreign Affairs, Marketplace, Public Radio International, and many higher education institutions. Steve was a co-maintainer of the Workbench suite of modules. You can find patches from Steve all over Drupal core and contributed modules.

In his role at Pantheon, Steve works primarily with agencies as they learn Pantheon's tools. Often that means guiding developers as they use Terminus, Quicksilver, and other Pantheon power tools. You can see some of Steve's work on GitHub in the Continuous Integration scripts that test Pantheon maintained WordPress plugins and Drupal modules.