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Merlin Rutz

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Based on 20 years in-depth drupal coding and a long-lasting contribution history Merlin helps teams to fix problems and introduce technical innovations. Founder and technical lead at HOOK_DEV_ALTER().

Alongside technical work, he brings experience with collaborative organizational models such as sociocracy, holacracy, and agile practices - helping teams improve how they share knowledge and make technical decisions.

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Andi Rüther

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Andi has a passion to make tech work for people. When he isn't building or debugging websites, he often finds himself digesting and prioritizing customer requirements, writing documentation and designing interfaces. He has a strong drive bringing teams and projects on track quickly and checking in with everybody before things go wrong.

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We have a long track record in building, maintaining, and scaling complex platforms. With our own SaaS product CrowdPower.Digital we gained first-hand experience in setting up a product. With HOOK_DEV_ALTER(), we’re bringing that experience back into the Drupal ecosystem.

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Privacy

Privacy and GDPR is not optional anymore. In our own businesses, we go the extra mile and implement Strict GDPR compliance, that minimizes person-related data and strictly avoid data processors not under EU legislation.

So whether you like privacy-first and Strict GDPR, struggle with limited EU Tooling support, or just don't want to be hit by the next Schrems-Judgements, we can support with competence. and determination

Sovereignty

Sovereignty is much more than avoiding US-dependencies. To us, strengthening sovereignty includes

  • making the Open-Source supply chain economically stronger and more robust,
  • supporting promising innovations in software licensing and ownership,
  • and "eating our own dog food" by using sovereign tooling in our businesses.

So whether you like robustify your own software and tooling supply chain, care for the ecosystem as a whole, or both, we can support you with competence and determination.

Upstream and Ecosystem Care

Thinking in systemic connections is our DNA, and so we connect getting Drupal projects done and fixed with systematic upstream work that makes Drupal better and keeps project technical debt at a reasonable amount.

But ecosystem resilience and wealth is about much more than code: We support it in all dimensions, from Open Source business models, to building good communications and trust.

So whether your project patch list has gotten way too long and every update is a rebase nightmare, or you care for making Drupal better, or both, we can work together and move things forward.