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Location Fairfax, Virginia, USA
Current Role(s): 
Lead Software Engineer
Bixal
Slack: 
@johnshortess

Professional Info

Companies Worked For
4Site Studios, Energy Enterprise Solutions / U.S. Department of Energy

Personal Info

Pronouns: 
he/him
Primary language: 
English
Other languages: 
English

On Drupal.org for 15 years 5 months

Bio: 

I've been making websites for nearly as long as the Web's been around, for major media, non-profit, and government clients. As the web got more specialized after the early "webmaster" days, I originally focused on content development and project management. Discovering Drupal in 2010 got me back into PHP development, and now I lead developer teams at Bixal, mostly working on big dot-gov sites. I'm also the Director of Programming for Drupal4Gov, and one of the organizers of Drupal GovCon.

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Drupal Contributions: 

In my earlier Drupal days, I worked on the D7 port of the Salsa API module and other modules for the Salsa CRM. More recently, I help to organize Drupal GovCon and other events for Drupal4Gov, and have contributed the Role Log module for D8+, which logs user role grants and revocations.

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Areas of Expertise: 
Developer
Project Manager
Drupal events: 
DrupalCon Chicago 2011
DrupalCon Denver 2012
DrupalCon Portland 2013
DrupalCon Austin 2014
DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015
DrupalCon New Orleans 2016
DrupalCon Baltimore 2017
DrupalCon Pittsburgh 2023
DrupalCon Atlanta 2025

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Projects maintained

Drupal Association Individual Member

johnshortess helps support and grow the Drupal community with the Drupal Association.

My mentors: 

3 people list johnshortess as a mentor

I contributed Drupal patches
I contributed Drupal modules
I contributed to Drupal issue queues
I provide Drupal-related services
I give support on Slack