At age 13, Hunter began using Linux as his daily driver after listening to a speech on Linux vs. Windows given by a classmate. That one speech sparked his desire to learn as much about computers as possible.

He went to Oregon State University, where he studied computer science to become a software engineer. During his time at OSU, he gained precious networking and troubleshooting experience while working the helpdesk for the College of Science and the College of Liberal Arts before receiving a mentorship at the Open Source Lab as a Student Sysadmin, which inspired him to keep doing ops professionally.

Outside of work, Hunter enjoys fishing, reading, and traveling full-time.

Jeff is a Partner and CIO at Tag1 Consulting where he works with clients of all sizes to create and maintain secure, automated, and high performance server infrastructures. A proponent of configuration management systems before Chef and Puppet existed, he leverages those and other tools to quickly deploy scalable infrastructures to support high traffic websites and applications.

Jeff brings over 20 years of leadership in IT strategy, open source software, and large-scale system administration. Jeff's commitment to excellence ensures Tag1 stays at the forefront of industry advancements, delivering robust and scalable technology frameworks. He also co-authored the O'Reilly High Performance Drupal book.

Jeff is a Partner and CIO at Tag1 Consulting where he works with clients of all sizes to create and maintain secure, automated, and high performance server infrastructures. A proponent of configuration management systems before Chef and Puppet existed, he leverages those and other tools to quickly deploy scalable infrastructures to support high traffic websites and applications.

Jeff brings over 20 years of leadership in IT strategy, open source software, and large-scale system administration. Jeff's commitment to excellence ensures Tag1 stays at the forefront of industry advancements, delivering robust and scalable technology frameworks. He also co-authored the O'Reilly High Performance Drupal book.

Jeff is a Partner and CIO at Tag1 Consulting where he works with clients of all sizes to create and maintain secure, automated, and high performance server infrastructures. A proponent of configuration management systems before Chef and Puppet existed, he leverages those and other tools to quickly deploy scalable infrastructures to support high traffic websites and applications.

Jeff brings over 20 years of leadership in IT strategy, open source software, and large-scale system administration. Jeff's commitment to excellence ensures Tag1 stays at the forefront of industry advancements, delivering robust and scalable technology frameworks. He also co-authored the O'Reilly High Performance Drupal book.

Rudy Grigar was introduced to the Drupal project through the Oregon State University Open Source Lab where he worked as a systems administrator and database administrator.  At the OSL he rebuilt and expanded the caching infrastructure using Varnish and Memcached.  He also managed their MySQL and PostgreSQL databases and migrated hosted Drupal websites to an optimized stack built from Pressflow, Varnish, memcached, and APC.  

Rudy continues to work closely with Drupal as a maintainer of the drupal.org infrastructure, providing support for backend and development services.  More recently he worked on the drupal.org redesign launch and has helped various clients successfully launch or tune their websites as Director of Operations at Tag1.