Dane Powell

Principal Software Engineer

Dane has been building enterprise Drupal websites since 2008. He has led and enabled technical teams across a variety of industries on projects ranging in scale from one-off decoupled sites for conferences to multi-thousand tenant multisite platforms for financial services agencies. He works with customers and partners to transform business requirements into technical solutions that exceed expectations, enjoys solving hard problems, and always aims to enable customers and partners to do the same. Dane is also an active member of and regular contributor to Drupal and the larger open-source community. He has contributed and maintained several enterprise modules, contributed over 1000 patches, commits, or pull requests, and is currently a maintainer of BLT, an automation framework for Drupal. He has also presented at several Drupal camps, with a focus on configuration management and automation. Outside of Drupal, Dane is a regular contributor to open-source projects (such as Serverless and Symfony) and enjoys developing for a number of other ecosystems including Amazon Alexa, Google Home, and Android. He is the creator and maintainer of several Alexa Skills and Android apps on the Google Play store. Several of these are open source and make use of server-side components such as Node.js and MongoDB. Through his work, he has also discovered and responsibly disclosed multiple security vulnerabilities in popular enterprise applications. Prior to joining the Drupal community, Dane was a NASA Space Technology Research Fellow at Rice University and Johnson Space Center, where he researched human-computer interaction and developed haptic teleoperation interfaces for NASA’s Robonaut program. His other interests include rock climbing, traveling, and spending time outdoors.

Announcing Acquia CLI: The Best Way to Manage Your Acquia Experience via the Terminal

November 23, 2020
2 minute read

Acquia is proud to announce the availability of Acquia Command Line Interface (CLI), a new unified tool to manage your Acquia products and services from the terminal.

Acquia CLI makes it easy to control multiple Acquia services and to incorporate these services into your continuous integration process. It allows you to manage Cloud IDEs, Cloud Platform applications and Cloud Platform teams via the Cloud Platform API’s 200+ endpoints; other services will be supported in the future.

Curious about what else you can do with Acquia CLI? Check out the below video, which gives you a taste of a few highlights:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hG4zg7Tof-s

You can run Drush commands on Acquia servers without even installing Drush or Drush aliases!
Easily tail logs from your Drupal Cloud Platform applications,
Manage Cloud IDEs,
Interact with the Cloud Platform API’s 200+ endpoints and more.

Interested? Then get started by installing Acquia CLI now.

In the spirit of Drupal and Acquia’s commitment to the open source community, Acquia CLI is free, open source, written in PHP, and built on community packages such as Symfony Console and the Acquia PHP SDK for Cloud API. We welcome feedback and contributions via Github.