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.