Drupal

Drupal contributions

I designed and wrote the system for releasing Drupal contributions, where all contrib modules and themes have real releases, version strings, and much more. I was one of the architects and implementors of the Drupal.org redesign. I maintained the Drupal CVS repositories and all the code that integrated them with drupal.org. I was also an architect and implementor for the migration from CVS to Git.

I'm the maintainer for the Update manager in Drupal core. I'm the primary maintainer for Project, Project issue tracker, OG Project, CVS integration, CVS deploy, Signup, Update status advanced settings, and a few other modules. You can see more details at the Projects by dww page.

I'm a co-maintainer for Views, Version Control API, Version Control Project Integration, Organic groups, Devel, Diff, Drupal Markup Engine, Panelizer, Bio, Database administration, and a handful of other modules.

I've provided hundreds of patches to Drupal core since version 4.7.0 (by some counts I was the 14th most prolific contributor to 7.0) and a number of contributed modules, including: Content Creation Kit (CCK), Panels, Node queue, Event, and Location.

I'm also a member of the Drupal Security team and have discovered and fixed a number of vulnerabilities in various contributed modules. I'm a member of the Drupal.org Infrastructure Team and have been involved in nearly every major deployment and upgrade since 2006.

If you are interested in my professional services, please check out my consulting shop: 3281d Consulting.

Roles in working with Drupal
Architect, Developer, Site Builder, Project Manager, Security Auditor
I contributed Drupal patches
I contributed Drupal modules
I contributed Drupal installation profiles
I contributed to Drupal issue queues
I contributed Drupal documentation
I contributed Drupal automated tests
I reviewed Project applications
I help in the Drupal support forums
I provide Drupal-related services
I give support on IRC
I help mentor new contributors
I attended the Drupal conference 2006 (Brussels, Belgium)
I attended OSCMS 2007, Sunnyvale
I attended DrupalCon Boston 2008
I attended DrupalCon DC 2009
I attended DrupalCon Chicago 2011
I will attend DrupalCon Denver 2012
I attended DrupalCon San Francisco 2010

Personal information

Full name
Derek Wright
Languages spoken
English; Portuguese, Brazil; Spanish
My website
http://3281d.com
Interests
Being present, Breema, Brazilian percussion, Maracatu, Samba, North Indian Classical music, Middle Eastern music, Afghan music, Jazz, Music, Socialism, Distributed Computing, Condor, BOINC, Physics
Gender
male
Country
United States
IRC nick
dww

Work

Job title
Associate Researcher
Industries worked in
Computer Science, Drupal Consulting, Music
Companies worked for
University of Wisconsin, Lawrence Berkeley National Labs, Cycle Computing, 3281d Consulting, OpenBand
Current company or organization
3281d Consulting

History

Documentation
Over 100 edits
Member for
6 years 2 weeks

Projects

Drupal Association individual member

dww is an individual member of the Drupal Association, which fosters and supports the Drupal software project, the community and its growth.