Nick Dickinson-Wilde

As Backend Drupal Manager with Taoti Creative, I am responsible for a team working on a variety of concurrent projects - rarely less than a 15 in any week. When not supporting my team, I am the primary maintainer for our company dev-ops systems, and somehow fit in heads down coding time as well as. On my own builds I primarily do backend code and site building, but also participate in both estimates and planning of projects/features. I am unnofficially our evangelizer for Drupal contributions.

Due to freelance history, I have and can do it all codewise - just don't ask me to design something I lack an eye for what looks good - but have a preference for backend code. Do note that 'can do' and fast and with expertise aren't quite the same thing - at this point I'm a bit behind on latest front end fun although I can do grid and certainly handy with flex boxes.

"Community taught" is my background. First got into coding with HTML sometimes with Server Side Includes... tables win for layout right 😜. My more formal coding started with modding for The Elder Scrolls III Morrowind and then the Elders Scrolls IV Oblivion - where I had the good fortune to get significant mentoring predominantly in Python - also used Tescript which is a Bethesda special kinda like JavaScript (looooosely).

Later I started doing freelance web services - including building my own custom PHP based CMS - and then around 2014 discovered Drupal and by 2015 was all Drupal when possible (although I still occasionally support things in WP or other more esoteric platforms). Since then I've been active in issues queues, IRC (2014-2016) and now Slack (2016-ongoing) and have switched to a full time agency role from freelance. I have over 300 issue credits and maintain a bunch of modules for better or worse. First Drupal 8 production site launched halloween of 2015.

Recent large scale web projects I've been involved with include:

Dev-ops Session Team Member for DrupalCon 2020 NorthAmerica, and scheduled to speak in the Development & Coding Track: Extending views - views plugins

When not coding, I hang out on Southern Vancouver Island and bike and hike a fair bit. Black belt in Kimura Shukokai Karate, I consider teaching to be quite awesome whether it is little kids or adults - karate or code.

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Taoti Creative

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Taoti Creative builds custom websites, usually based on the Drupal platform. We're Washington DC's top Drupal shop, or so we like to think. Specialties web design, drupal, web development, information architecture (IA), user experience (UX) design, branding, web programming, database design, application development.