john_macdonald

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Full name: 
John MacDonald
Slack username: 
jfmacdonald
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Student

Public bio: 

I am an independent web developer in San Diego, California, who specializes in websites for small businesses. I am a career "re-inventor" who has come to the web business rather recently after many years as a software engineer in the semiconductor industry, developing and enabling chip design automation. And I write, having published works in technical communication and creative writing.

Interest areas: 
Module development
Theming
Server configuration
Documentation
Future Drupal niche: 
Role of Drupal in digital marketing
Strongest in: 
Module development
Theme development
Contributing/reviewing patches
Writing documentation
Community contributions: 
  • A minor contribution to the Drupal 8 User Guide
Professional strengths: 
  • Experience developing, debugging and applying complex software systems in the Linux environment.
  • Able to work the full-stack: Linux, Apache, Ngnix, MySQL, PHP, Python, Javascript, HTML, CSS, Sass, etc.
  • Able to see user needs and provide solutions that work for them.
  • Strong writing skills.

History

Member for
6 years 6 months