---
title: "Greg Dunlap"
url: "/about/greg-dunlap"
type: bio
date: 2015-06-23
updated: 2024-07-24
---

# Greg Dunlap

#  Greg Dunlap 

 Former Director of Strategy

 Monterey, CA

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Greg got his start in Drupal in 2006 at a Lullabot onsite training for his employer at the time, the Seattle Times Company. Feeling an instant kinship with Lullabot Jeff Eaton, Greg accepted Eaton's encouragement to contribute and lead one of the eight core initiatives for Drupal 8. The so-called [CMI initiative](http://groups.drupal.org/node/191283) endeavored to consolidate Drupal's scattered site data, views, content types, and module settings, to a unified, secure API. The system, which shipped as part of Drupal 8, made deploying, testing, and reusing Drupal site configuration more consistent and easier to manage.

Greg graduated from college in 1991, majoring in photojournalism and fine art photography. With the US in a deep recession and the future of publishing already on the verge of disruption, Greg was the first to volunteer when his boss, the owner of a Chicago Real Estate newspaper, asked if anyone wanted to help move the paper's database from Paradox for Dos to Paradox for Windows. He's been in the software business ever since.

Greg is also a world-class pinball player and has been participating in pinball tournaments for nearly 25 years. For some of his career, he managed to marry his fascination with the game with his software engineering work, writing C++ code to run various games.

His Drupal resume includes stints with leading Drupal agencies Palantir and NodeOne, and his body of work includes work for [*Foreign Affairs*](https://www.foreignaffairs.com/) magazine, [Ikea,](https://www.ikea.com/) and the Swedish Government. He authored the Deploy module and was a longtime maintainer of the Services module. He is also co-author of Packt's "[Drupal 7 Module Development](https://www.amazon.com/Drupal-Module-Development-Matt-Butcher/dp/1849511160)."

 

 ##  Did you know? 

 Greg is an internationally ranked competitive pinball player.

 

  ##  More about Greg 

###  Drupal Contributions 

 

- Former maintainer of Services and Deploy modules
- Initiative lead for Configuration Management Initiative in Drupal 8

###  Projects 

 

- American Booksellers Association (ABA)
- Georgia.gov
- [State of Massachusetts](https://www.lullabot.com/our-work/massgov-covid-19)
- Harvard
- NYU School of Medicine
- [Ames Laboratory](https://www.lullabot.com/our-work/ames-laboratory)
- Principal
- [DocuSign](https://www.lullabot.com/our-work/docusign)
- Penguin / Random House Canada
- [Edutopia](https://www.lullabot.com/our-work/building-a-new-edutopia-on-decoupled-drupal-8)
- Tesla Motors

###  Education and Certifications 

 

- Bachelor of Science in Photojournalism, Minor in Fine Art Photography, Northern Illinois University

 

  ##  Featured resources ... 

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 [### The Benefits of Structured Content 

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 [### Do You Need a Digital Asset Management (DAM) System? 

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  ##  Featured work ... 

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     A Sustainable Design System for a Global Professional Association

    
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     Showcasing ‘Smart Social’ for Technology's Biggest Event

    

     
    
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- [ ###  The NAMM Foundation 
    
     A Purpose-Driven Redesign Celebrating Music Education

    

     
    
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