From Drupal NYC to the White House and beyond...
summary
Community work turns into paid roles and federal work by way of concrete actions: builds hand-rolled sites then migrates them to Drupal, creates a drupal.org account in 2006, and launches a Drupal site from a conference chair at DrupalCamp NYC. Organizes meetups (100+ attendees at some events), starts Drupal Play Days, NodeSchool and Code & Coffee (avg 8–10 weekly, 28 online peak). Writes Node APIs, Rails backends and Angular front ends to ship a mobile phone top‑up service; rewrites an eight‑month project and ships in four months, leads USDS engagements and even earns White House tours.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction and career overview
- 7:23Early career and Drupal NYC beginnings
- 17:38Sony Music and community impact
- 23:37Phase two and professional growth
- 31:19Moving to DMV and new communities
- 36:11Joining US Digital Service
- 40:01White House and Civic Tech journey
- 43:33Conclusion and Q&A
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