Summary
Ashraf Abed is a founder and senior technical architect with 11+ years building and leading high-profile, high-traffic web projects across public and private sectors. He combines deep Drupal and Symfony expertise (certified Drupal Grand Master) with hands-on skills in ReactJS, PHP, MySQL and modern frontend tooling to design robust, sustainable architectures and migrations at scale. As CEO and principal instructor at Debug Academy he not only architects systems but also coaches developers and shapes curricula to improve team skillsets and long-term project quality. He led the WhiteHouse "We the People" petitions project and has executed large data migrations and performance optimizations for enterprise and federal sites. Ashraf also founded Drupito, an affordable Drupal hosting service, demonstrating a product-minded approach to solving operational pain points for small teams. Fluent in Arabic and English, he frequently translates complex technical concepts into accessible guidance for teams and stakeholders.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
B.S Electrical Engineering Computer Programming Specialization, B.S Electrical Engineering Computer Programming Specialization at University of Maryland
Master of Science (M.S.) Software Engineering, Master of Science (M.S.) Software Engineering at George Mason University
English, Arabic