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Location France
Current Role(s): 
Senior Manager Digital Engineering
Pfizer, Inc.

Professional Info

Companies Worked For
Al Jazeera, NodeOne, Youmeet Technology, Senzilla
Industries Worked In: 
Web Consultancy, Digital Media, Digital Marketing, Pharmaceutical

Personal Info

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

On Drupal.org for 16 years 1 month

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Bio: 

My journey with Drupal started back in 2006 with Drupal 5. While still in school, I was working nights as a freelancer for small local companies, in the Swedish town where I lived. Through the local DrupalCamp scene, I came in contact with NodeOne, a young but prolific agency based in Stockholm that I joined later on.

Since my time at NodeOne, I moved on to work as a Developer Lead at Al Jazeera TV Network and most recently as an Engineering Manager in the Platform DevOps group at Pfizer.

I've got a passion for building great teams, with a focus on the underlying theory and practice of efficient software delivery. I believe that all companies and teams have a lot to learn from how open source projects, like Drupal, are developed.

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Drupal Contributions: 

Active contributor to Drupal core and coordinator of the Workflow Initiative. Contrib maintainer of Deploy, Workspace, UUID and other modules. Focusing on Entity API, content staging and content workflow solutions.

Follow me on Twitter: @dickolsson

Events spoken at

Areas of Expertise: 
Content Staging
Content Workflow
REST API
module development
Agile Methodology
Drupal events: 
DrupalCon Paris 2009
DrupalCon Copenhagen 2010
DrupalCon Chicago 2011
DrupalCon London 2011
DrupalCon Denver 2012
DrupalCon Munich 2012
DrupalCon Portland 2013
DrupalCon Prague 2013
DrupalCon Austin 2014
DrupalCon Amsterdam 2014
DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015
DrupalCon Barcelona 2015
DrupalCon Asia 2016
DrupalCon New Orleans 2016
DrupalCon Baltimore 2017
DrupalCon Vienna 2017

Credited on 2 security advisories

Credited on 48 fixed issues

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My mentors: 

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I help in the Drupal support forums
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I give support on IRC