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# About Me

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My name is Oliver Davies (aka [opdavies][1]) - a full-stack Web Developer and System Administrator based in Wales, UK.

I specialise in open-source PHP technologies. I primarily work with Drupal and am an [Acquia certified Drupal Developer][41] but also work with Symfony, Silex, Laravel and Sculpin. I’m a {{ site.work.role }} at [{{ site.companies[site.work.company].name }}][20], former Developer at the [{{ site.companies.drupal_association.name }}][39], part-time freelancer, open source contributor and advocate, mentor and conference speaker.

I’m a webmaster and documentation maintainer for [Drupal.org][42], and a provisional member of the [Drupal Security team][14]. [I speak at various user groups and conferences][40], and co-organise the [Drupal Bristol user group][15], [PHPSW][17] and [DrupalCamp Bristol][18].

## Skills

- PHP, Drupal (6, 7, 8), Symfony, Silex, Laravel, Sculpin, Jekyll.
- PHPUnit, SimpleTest, Behat.
- HTML, CSS, Sass, Less, Tachyons, Twig, JavaScript, jQuery, Gulp, Grunt.
- Linux (Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, Red Hat), Git, SVN, Jenkins, Fabric, Ansible, Puppet, Vagrant, Docker.

## Certifications

- Acquia certified Developer - Drupal 8 (June 2017) - 8th in the UK
- Acquia certified Back End Specialist - Drupal 8 (July 2017) - 1st in the UK
- Acquia certified Front End Specialist - Drupal 8 (November 2017) - 4th in the UK
- Acquia certified Grand Master - Drupal 8 (November 2017) - 3rd in the UK

## Elsewhere

- [Twitter][21] - @{{ site.twitter.name }}
- [Drupal.org][22]
- [GitHub][23]
- [Packagist][24]
- [Ansible Galaxy][25]
- [Joind.in][33]
- [Speaker Deck][26]
- [LinkedIn][27]
- [YouTube][28]
- [Reddit][36]
- [Stack Overflow][37]
- [Disqus][38]
- IRC (freenode) - {{ site.irc.name }}

[1]: https://www.google.com/#q=opdavies
[2]: https://www.drupal.org
[3]: http://symfony.com
[4]: http://git-scm.com
[5]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux
[6]: http://www.ansible.com
[7]: https://assoc.drupal.org
[8]: https://www.microserve.io
[9]: http://precedent.com
[10]: http://www.nomensa.com
[11]: https://www.drupal.org/u/opdavies/issue-credits/3060
[12]: https://www.drupal.org/project/user/381388
[13]: https://www.drupal.org/user/381388/people-mentored
[14]: https://www.drupal.org/security-team
[15]: https://www.drupalbristol.org.uk
[16]: https://groups.drupal.org/wales-uk
[17]: https://phpsw.uk
[18]: https://www.drupalcampbristol.co.uk
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[29]: http://silex.sensiolabs.org
[30]: https://laravel.com
[31]: https://sculpin.io
[32]: https://docs.puppet.com/guides/faq.html#what-is-puppet
[33]: {{site.joindin.url}}
[34]: https://www.ctidigital.com
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[36]: https://www.reddit.com/user/opdavies
[37]: http://stackoverflow.com/users/3012648/opdavies
[38]: https://disqus.com/by/opdavies
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[41]: https://certification.acquia.com/user/1647756
[42]: https://www.drupal.org