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# About

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Oliver Davies is a senior level Web Developer and System Administrator based in the UK, who was been working online since 2007. Specialising in PHP and open source technologies, Oliver architects and develops websites using [Drupal](https://www.drupal.org) - a powerful content management framework - and [Sculpin](http://sculpin.io) - a static site generator written in PHP.

Oliver currently works for the [Drupal Association](https://assoc.drupal.org) and also provides freelance consultancy services for Drupal websites and Linux servers.

Oliver has contributed code to Drupal 7 and 8 core, and maintains and contributes to several modules and themes on Drupal.org. He is the Git Documentation Maintainer for the Drupal project, and a provisional member of the [Drupal Security team](https://www.drupal.org/security-team). He attends, organises and [talks](/talks/) at user groups, and volunteers and mentors online and in-person at conferences.

He also is a 2nd Degree Black Belt in Tae Kwon-Do and a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu practitioner.

Oliver has active social media profiles on <a href="{{ site.twitter }}">Twitter</a> and <a href="{{ site.linkedin }}">LinkedIn</a>, and you can view his code on
<a href="{{ site.drupalorg }}/track/code">Drupal.org</a> and <a href="{{ site.github }}?tab=activity">GitHub</a>.