Aron Beal
Senior Software Developer Team Lead at Pixieset
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAron Beal is a Senior Software Developer and team lead with 18 years of hands-on experience building full-stack web applications and databases, currently leading engineering at Pixieset. He specializes in PHP and Symfony, with deep experience in enterprise AWS architecture, containerized development, and delivering both public-sector and multinational private solutions. Aron combines technical leadership and project management—task analysis, prototyping, planning, and mentoring—to turn complex stakeholder requirements into releasable code. His background includes leading a multimillion-dollar SaaS project and long-term work on high-traffic institutional sites, giving him a pragmatic focus on reliability and scalability. A contributor to Drupal testing tooling, he has a practical open-source bent that improves developer experience. US citizen with Canadian permanent residency, he prefers fully remote roles and can contract for US firms when required.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Non-matriculated study, Biology, Computer Science, Non-matriculated study, Biology, Computer Science at University of WashingtonBS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University of Oregon
Github Skills (7)
context-manager10
drupal10
php10
context-api10
behat10
testing10
debugging9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
jhedstrom/drupalextension
May 2016 - May 2016
An integration layer between Behat, Mink Extension, and Drupal.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 6 PRs, 33 comments in 19 days
Contributions summary:Aron primarily focused on improving the functionality and debugging within the Drupal extension. They fixed a bug related to character code handling within a breakpoint feature in DrupalContext. Further updates included adding a "quit" handler, improving the user experience of the breakpoint, and resolving issues with output buffering. The changes specifically address improvements in the testing framework.
behatdrupalbehat-extensionphp
aronbeal/drupalextension
May 2016 - Jun 2019
An integration layer between Behat, Mink Extension, and Drupal (sandbox!)
Contributions:8 commits, 2 PRs, 98 pushes in 3 years 1 month
behatdrupal
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