About Me

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

I specialise in open-source PHP technologies. I’m an Acquia certified Drupal Developer but also work with Symfony, Silex, Laravel and Sculpin. I’m a Senior Developer at Microserve, former Developer at the Drupal Association, part-time freelancer, open source contributor and advocate, mentor and conference speaker.

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

Skills

• Website and application development with Drupal, Symfony, Silex, Laravel and Sculpin.
• Front-end development with Gulp or Grunt, Sass, Less and JavaScript.
• Version control with Git or SVN.
• Continuous deployment and integration with Jenkins and Fabric.
• Linux server administration, and configuration management with Ansible or Puppet.
• Local development environment setup with Vagrant or Docker.

Elsewhere

• Twitter - @opdavies
• Drupal.org
• GitHub
• Packagist
• Ansible Galaxy
• Joind.in
• Speaker Deck
• LinkedIn
• YouTube
• Reddit
• Stack Overflow
• Disqus
• IRC (freenode) - opdavies