Drupal Connect is a full-service Drupal firm offering Drupal development, training, and staffing services. The company is engaged in projects with over 100 clients throughout North America and Europe, including prominent Fortune 500 companies such as Sony Music Entertainment, Waste Management Inc., General Electric Co., A&E, the New York Stock Exchange, and NBC Corp. Drupal Connect was founded in 2009 by John Florez, who previously owned Drupal Staffing. Drupal Connect’s headquarters are located in New York City, with virtual offices in Portland, Oregon; Boston, Massachusetts; Austin, Texas; Newport, Rhode Island; and Montreal, Canada.

Participating In The Drupal Community

With nearly 50 full-time Drupal developers, Drupal Connect is actively building and sharing with the Drupal community. Drupal Connect’s Steve Edwards has partnered with Acquia to spearhead a series of Drupal podcasts that contain interviews with people doing cool things within the Drupal Web application framework. Drupal Connect also led a session at the PNW Drupal Summit in October 2010 on Apache Solr for developers using community-contributed modules. We participate in the Drupal community on drupal.org and sponsor multiple Drupal camps every year. The goal of each camp is to educate attendees on Drupal, facilitate discussions around its content management framework, and promote cross-learning.

Drupal Development Philosophy

As a company, we view Drupal as a great tool for building websites. We like the modular, "don't re-invent the wheel" approach that Drupal provides for every project. Our developers use a contributed module and override it until they arrive at the desired functionality for their particular use case. Then, Drupal Connect evaluates whether or not these changes should be contributed back to the community as a patch for the contributed module. Using community-contributed modules allows developers to rapidly extend the usefulness of Drupal, and is much easier than building every feature from the ground up.