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<p>My name is Oliver Davies (aka <a href="https://www.google.com/#q=opdavies">opdavies</a>) - a Web Developer and System Administrator based in Wales, UK. I’m a PHP specialist and <a href="http://certification.acquia.com/registry?fname=Oliver&lname=Davies&city=Newport&state=Wales&country=United+Kingdom&org=&exam=All">Acquia certified Drupal Developer</a>, a Senior Developer at <a href="https://microserve.io">Microserve</a>, former Developer at the <a href="https://assoc.drupal.org">Drupal Association</a>, part-time freelancer, open source contributor and advocate, mentor and conference speaker.</p>
<p>I’m a webmaster and documentation maintainer for <a href="https://www.drupal.org">Drupal.org</a>, and a provisional member of the <a href="https://www.drupal.org/security-team">Drupal Security team</a>. <a href="https://www.oliverdavies.uk/talks">I speak at various user groups and conferences</a>, and co-organise the <a href="https://www.drupalbristol.org.uk">Drupal Bristol user group</a>, <a href="https://phpsw.uk">PHPSW</a> and <a href="https://www.drupalcampbristol.co.uk">DrupalCamp Bristol</a>.</p>
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<li>Website and application development with Drupal, Symfony, Silex, Laravel and Sculpin.</li>
<li>Front-end development with Gulp or Grunt, Sass, Less and JavaScript.</li>
<li>Version control with Git or SVN.</li>
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<li><a href="https://twitter.com/opdavies">Twitter</a> - @opdavies</li>
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Publishing Sculpin Sites with GitHub Pages
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<span class="post__date">13th July, 2017</span>
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<span class="post__date">9th June, 2017</span>
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Turning Your Custom Drupal Module into a Feature
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