Personal details
April S.
Timezone: Eastern Time (US & Canada) (UTC-4)
Summary
April is a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat. She has experience in higher education, government and agency work. Her proudest project was the 2014 National Climate Assessment website released by The White House, nca2014.globalchange.gov.
- Lead organizer for the annual conference Drupal Camp Asheville, drupalasheville.com.
- Organizing team member for A11yTalks virtual digital accessibility meetup, a11ytalks.com.
- Member of Drupal Community Working Group Community Health Team.
She loves helping others solve problems and level up their skills.
Technical skills
Work Experience
Principal Software Engineer
Red Hat | Dec 2021 - Present
PHP
jQuery
Git
Drupal
Shell
Twig
Jira
PhpStorm
Drupal 8
Member of the Red Hat Developers Portal team.
- Epic lead for a developers.redhat.com Learning Paths improvement project, which included integrating Drupal with an external Data Lake (MongoDB).
- Epic lead for a cloud.redhat.com Learning Paths feature parity project, which implemented similar functionality as developers.redhat.com Data Lake integration.
- Interim Tech Lead for the developers.redhat.com team.
Developer/Senior Developer
Lullabot | Aug 2018 - Dec 2021
PHP
jQuery
Git
Drupal
Jira
PhpStorm
Drupal 8
A full-time position working as a part of a team to migrate the Georgia.gov platform of 85+ sites in a Drupal 7 multisite setup to a new Drupal 8 multisite setup. This involved lots of complex, custom migrations due to a revised architecture. A great project, client and team.
A full-time position working as a part of a team to upgrade the Georgia Public Broadcasting website from Drupal 7 to Drupal 8. Also working as a part of the Carnegie Mellon University and Commonwealth of Massachusetts teams.
Personal Projects
2014
Drupal
Drupal 7
The National Climate Assessment summarizes the impacts of climate change on the United States, now and in the future.
A team of more than 300 experts guided by a 60-member Federal Advisory Committee produced the report, which was extensively reviewed by the public and experts, including federal agencies and a panel of the National Academy of Sciences.
HabitatSeven provided the design and most of the frontend coding. The design featured a highly shareable architecture and mobile first design. I worked as lead Drupal developer to integrate their design and coding into a Drupal site with content types, taxonomy vocabularies, theming and custom modules.
This site was launched by The White House.
2016
Drupal
Drupal 7
Climate change is a significant threat to the health of the American people. The U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) Climate and Health Assessment examines how climate change is already affecting human health and the changes that may occur in the future.
The design combines elements of the USGCRP website with the design of the assessment PDF in a reusable template format for future reports. I was responsible for leading the web team and providing the back-end architecture.