Drew Engelson
Sr. Director of Technology at Celerity
Drew is an seasoned technology leader. As Sr. Director of Technology at Celerity, he is currently focused on delivering multi-platform digital experiences in support of Celerity's user-focused design, digital strategy, engineering and architecture to clients.
He is the co-founder of Zoombit LLC which offers a cloud-based software QA platform and related quality testing services.
With a background in technology architecture, web engineering, cloud computing, search, and business development, Drew has worked on leading B2C and B2B projects across many industries and platforms.
His experience also includes analytics, quality assurance, SEO, CMS, and content delivery, including a focus on digital media and technical systems integration.
Drew resides in Cabin John, Maryland with his wife and two daughters.
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Past presentations
This talk outlines what happened when I needed to migrate hundreds of thousands of end user logins from a legacy application to a Django application for a client (National Geographic). The primary challenge was that each user's password was originally created with the Postgres pgcrypto.crypt() function and only the one-way hash is stored, which is unusable by Django which it's own algorithms fo...
