Jeff Potts

Jeff has been working with unstructured data and document-oriented data stores for most of his 20-year career, starting with Lotus Notes in the early 1990s, then Web Content Management and Document Management platforms like Interwoven and Documentum, until diving into the world of open source full-time in 2006. After 5 years implementing open source software for clients and playing a big part in the Alfresco community, Jeff joined Alfresco as their Chief Community Officer in 2011, where he’s responsible for growing the Alfresco community through product evangelism and developer outreach.

Jeff starting working with CMIS in 2008 when he created a proof-of-concept to integrate Drupal and Alfresco via CMIS, which eventually grew into the Drupal CMIS API module. Then, in 2009, he created cmislib, the Python API for CMIS, which later joined Apache Chemistry as the first non-Java contribution to the project. Since then, Jeff has continued to maintain cmislib and to review and comment on the CMIS specification as it continues to evolve.

Jeff lives in Dallas, Texas, with his wife, Christy, and their two children, Justin and Caroline.