Khalid M. Baheyeldin

Khalid has 25 years of experience in software development and consulting. Starting with a Sinclair ZX Spectrum, he got his first job developing and doing database administration on mainframes. He has been developing and hacking on UNIX since 1987, and Linux since 1995. In 1999, he was using "LAMP" before the term was coined. He is a regular open source developer and contributor since 2003, mainly for Drupal core as well as contributions. At last count, he had some 35 modules for Drupal available at drupal.org.

Khalid co-founded 2bits.com, Inc in 1999. He is a full time open source consultant offering services for Drupal and the LAMP stack, ranging from custom functionality, site conversions and upgrades, LAMP performance optimization and tuning, and server provisioning for performance and uptime. 2bits.com, Inc manages several huge sites for various clients, many of them exceed a million page views per day on a regular basis.