About me

I am currently the Director of Open Source at Yahoo! Inc.

I was recently a Senior Analyst at Forrester Research where I covered the Enterprise 2.0 (Enterprise Social Media) marketplace and provided insight services related to information management, knowledge management, and collaboration on the intranet.  After working at Forrester, I provided consulting services under the “GilYehuda.com” brand.

Prior to my work as an industry analyst, I worked at Fidelity Investments for almost 15 years.   I was a community manager for many internal communities of practice including their approx. one thousand .NET developer.  I implemented wikis, forums, blogs, and other web 2.0 technologies to support many business and technology groups.  I also established a community management practice, helping drive consistency in the way we implemented internal communities.

I was an Enterprise Architect at Fidelity for seven years.  As an EA, I established guidelines for the performance testing of XML Web Services and I wrote the secure code guidelines for .NET developers.  As one of the leading advocates for internal corporate source and consultants on their Open Source Support Center, I co-authored their Open Source policy.   And I managed the Technology Directions process — an arm of the IT Governance organization which helped drive consistency of practice across 250 technology area across the corporation.

More information about my work experiences is found on my LinkedIn profile.  Please take a look.  Feel free to reach out and join my network too.  Just let me know who you are. I look forward to meeting you.