New England Regional Developers - Data Security or Privacy

Network Engineer at FIT Staffing, Inc.

MFallon — Thu, 10 Sep 2015 13:33:02 +0000

Position Title:

Network Engineer

Has experience in:

Data Security or Privacy

Full/Part Time:

Full Time

Telecommute Allowed:

Job Description:

Perm in Amherst, MA Key Skills: CCIE, 8+ yrs large network experience, internet routing, wireless, security.

Please contact Jackie Fallon, 413-733-6466, jfallon@fitsolutions.us, Meghan Fallon, mfallon@fitsolutions.us , 413-244-8852, or Allison Ebner, 413-355-5125, aebner@fitsolutions.us for more details. Or visit the Job Opportunities page of our website.

Before it hits the fan!

AGonthier — Fri, 31 Jul 2015 17:08:51 +0000

The design is done, the site is built and launched. How do you make sure you keep that site running well? What steps do you need to do before you have problems? What are the tricks and tips on how to troubleshoot your site when you are having problems? We are two support engineers who help people fix their broken Drupal sites everyday.

Experience level:

Intermediate

Session Time Slot(s):

Time:

Sep 12 2015 - 3:00pm-Sep 12 2015 - 3:50pm

Room:

165

Allowed Types:

Session

Sessions Topics:

Data Security or Privacy

Fundamentals

Development

Speaker Bio(s):

Lanette & Ally are both Customer Support Engineers who work at Acquia with 3.5 years of experience dealing with Drupal problems on a daily basis.

The future is here. What's Drupal got to do with it?

mlncn — Fri, 31 Jul 2015 01:04:41 +0000

"The future is already here— it’s just not very evenly distributed." —William Gibson

An increasing number of people do work mediated by APIs. Self-driving cars (and trucks) work. Algorithms, big data, and programs akin to artificial intelligence are increasingly people's everyday interaction with their phones. We put general purpose computing machines (similar in principal to your laptop, smartphone, or the servers Drupal runs on) in some people's bodies, and many more of us spend a lot of time inside computers (any modern car or airplane, and many modern houses).

What does any of this have to do with Drupal?

Despite all the (genuinely real awesome) awesomeness we hear about in session after session, Drupal is still in a 2001 world in some fundamental ways. It is a site on a server. People can log in to edit text and upload files. This was a huge increase in power ten years ago for people who should not have to edit HTML or use FTP. With a little up-front help from a web developer, anyone could make updates that the whole world could see, at a domain they owned on a site they controlled. That had a touch of magic to it— more than a touch with what modules could add for the presentation of content and business-critical functionality like e-commerce. Now content management is commonplace. Meanwhile, the magic more and more comes not from a module, but from an outside service.

If our work isn't providing the value, inevitably our work will not be valued.

Sure, we can hook Drupal up to the Internet of Things or any other buzzword that comes along, but we're just an afterthought. This is not unique to Drupal; the web itself is becoming a second-class citizen of the Internet. What may be unique to Drupal is the community cohesion needed to put Free Software at the center of meeting people's needs, wants, and inchoate desires. If we don't, the experience people expect from technology will get harder and harder to provide with code we (and they) control.

Indeed, the experiences people expect, right now, frequently rely on technology that spies on them and, presently, is provided by opaque, proprietary services.

Ceding, to a consolidating cadre of corporations, control of the computers that run our jobs, cars, games, homes, conversations, and even bodies is a grave threat to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. The moral case against allowing this to happen makes itself. A moral case has never been sufficient, however. I will make the business case for engaging seriously with the sort of technologies and platforms that define our present future.

This session will suggest how Drupal can become relevant to four large markets that we have bypassed (with some Drupal products providing notable exceptions that will be noted), or that have bypassed us:

Static sites editable by one person who just wants to manage content (most domain registrars now offer some abomination that sort of works for this)
Content management as a service (SquareSpace, TheGrid.io)
Vertical-specific applications (learning management systems, club management software, library catalogs, you-name-the-business)
Everything where the value comes from network effects or simply a large enough number of people pouring feedback into the system (social networks, spam filtering, maps, voice recognition, search engines, digital assistants)

For those of us building web applications, if we don't take a step back and look at what is providing value to our customers (and could-be customers), we're going to be at the mercy of those providing the APIs to what does provide that value. For those of us making small, medium-sized, and even large sites, our lunch may be eaten by SquareSpace and TheGrid.io (disclosure: Agaric is a beta customer, if they ever come out with anything).

Machine-built web sites or artificial intelligence doing parts of our jobs is nothing to fear, necessarily. Drupal already has the same effect, replacing more than half the work of crafting a web site with a ready-made framework. Ideally, we're freed to work on ever more interesting and important goals.

The challenge is to use the Drupal community—our own network effect, so to speak—to coordinate partnerships and projects which will produce value with tools that belong to us all, rather than locked-down services controlled by a few.

You will leave this session with a better sense of web development and Drupal in the context of the unevenly-arrived future, and at least a glimmer of an idea for a way you can profitably be a part of building a better web, and world.

Session Time Slot(s):

Time:

Sep 11 2015 - 3:00pm-Sep 11 2015 - 3:50pm

Room:

162

Allowed Types:

Session

Sessions Topics:

Data Security or Privacy

Strategy

Speaker Bio(s):

Benjamin Melançon is a co-founder of Agaric, a web development and strategy consultancy which helps people create and use powerful Internet technology. The principals of Agaric, a worker-owned cooperative, live and work to connect ideas, resources, and people.

Benjamin is a programmer and web application developer specializing in Drupal, an open source free software content management system. With Agaric he has worked on web sites for businesses and non-profits of varied kinds, including Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Studio Daniel Libeskind and Zeit Online, and Partners In Health and the National Institute for Children's Health Quality. He attended the University of Massachusetts at Amherst on a Commonwealth Scholarship and studied journalism, economics, political science, and information technology. He was awarded a grant in the inaugural round of the News Challenge of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation for 2008 and a Google Summer of Code grant for Drupal development in 2007.

A founding elected director of the Amazing Things Arts Center in Framingham, Massachusetts, Benjamin has supported numerous artistic, journalistic, and social ventures.

Once upon a time, he led 34 authors in writing the 1,100 page Definitive Guide to Drupal 7.

Senior Web Developer at Last Call Media

kelly — Tue, 07 Apr 2015 03:29:33 +0000

Position Title:

Senior Web Developer

Has experience in:

Data Security or Privacy

Fundamentals

Development

DevOps

DrupalCampMA

Company:

Last Call Media

Full/Part Time:

Full Time

Part Time

Telecommute Allowed:

Yes

Job Description:

Last Call Media has an immediate opening for a Senior Developer. Senior Developers can work from any location in the US, and are generously compensated for their skill.

Our development division prides itself on being able to neatly stitch together contributed modules, Drupal configuration, and custom functionality to meet client requirements, and we often find ourselves pushing the envelope of what is technically possible. We work with enterprise level clients, typically in the education and non-profit space. As a company, we are very active in the Drupal and web development communities, and enjoy making time for code contribution, public speaking, and socializing.

Our senior developers are the ones who make our work technically possible. They wear a lot of hats. On client projects, they design technical architecture, write code, and work with Project Managers and clients to ensure a quality product. As part of the development team, they are leaders, and enjoy showing and teaching other developers. Internally, they live and experiment on the bleeding edge to find ways we can work faster and smarter.

Technical requirements for this position:

Have solid fundamentals - Know PHP, Javascript, HTML, CSS, and the LAMP stack
Love version control (GIT preferred)
Be comfortable on the terminal
Love, or have a love/hate relationship with the Drupal Features module.
Know how to override Drupal theme functions
Be able to write a custom Drupal module

Senior Developers are compensated at a salary commensurate with skill and experience, ranging from $60k-90k+ annually, with comprehensive benefits and varied, engaging work for enterprise-level clients. If you excel at any of this and are excited by the rest, apply at https://lcm.bamboohr.com/jobs/view.php?id=9 or send questions to careers@lastcallmedia.com

Pay range:

Salary commensurate with skill and experience, ranging from $60k-90k+ annually

Seriously Scalable Architecture With AWS

sasha — Fri, 15 Aug 2014 05:35:28 +0000

Amazon Web Services provides one of the most awesomely complicated suites of tools you can use to power a web application, which is why most of its users use less than 1% of its features. The primary goal of this session is to show you how companies like Netflix and Airbnb build bulletproof technology empires in the cloud using Amazon's IaaS.

Topics covered will include:

Custom private network topology
Load balancing, monitoring, and autoscaling
Cache clusters and queues
Highly available relational databases
Cloud storage and content delivery

This session is intended as a primer for building secure, scalable web infrastructure at low cost to you and your clients.

Experience level:

Advanced

Session Time Slot(s):

Time:

Sep 13 2014 - 12:00pm-Sep 13 2014 - 12:50pm

Room:

165-69

Allowed Types:

Session

Sessions Topics:

Data Security or Privacy

Fundamentals

Development

Speaker Bio(s):

Sasha builds clean and modular back ends for web and mobile apps servicing clients with serious scaling needs. His interests include API design, asynchronous architecture, data warehousing, and emerging technologies.

Getting Started with Encrypted Communications

sequoia — Thu, 07 Aug 2014 22:08:52 +0000

Want to encrypt your chat or email but not sure how to get started? In this beginner-oriented workshop we'll give hands-on help getting you set up with encrypted email and chat on your laptop, text and talk on your smart phone. There will be a short (10min) presentation on security basics at the top of each hour, come to one or the other to learn the basics (light & easy but very important!). Following each is hands-on help so *bring your laptop or smart phone* for hands-on help!

Experience level:

Beginner

Session Time Slot(s):

Time:

Sep 12 2014 - 2:00pm-Sep 12 2014 - 3:50pm

Room:

165-69

Allowed Types:

Session

Sessions Topics:

Data Security or Privacy

Fundamentals

Maintaining Websites with Security and Privacy

ageisp0lis — Mon, 17 Mar 2014 10:58:30 +0000

In the post-Snowden threat environment, we understand that our clients' data is under threat from many different adversaries. Governments, cyber-criminals and foreign hackers are all trying to root your servers and own your websites. In this session, I will be covering the basics of securing servers on which websites are hosted, and why we need to encrypt all the things by default. I will present a variety of tips, tricks and configurations that help to protect both your websites and your visitors. Also come to learn some extra steps and techniques which can be used to harden Drupal and WordPress for security.

Slides:

nerdsummit.pdf

Experience level:

Intermediate

Session Time Slot(s):

Time:

Sep 13 2014 - 2:00pm-Sep 13 2014 - 2:50pm

Room:

165-69

Allowed Types:

Session

Session Track:

Session Tracks (NERDSummit 2014)

DevOps

Sessions Topics:

Data Security or Privacy

Fundamentals

DevOps

WordPress

Speaker Bio(s):

Kevin Gallagher is the Systems Administrator at Last Call Media, and also an activist for privacy and freedom of information. He is the director of Free Barrett Brown, which is a support network, advocacy organization and legal defense fund formed for the purpose of assisting a prominent jailed journalist. In addition he works part-time with Freedom of the Press Foundation.