Ashraf Abed
Founder at Debug Academy
Centreville, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolAshraf 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 MarylandMaster of Science (M.S.) Software Engineering, Master of Science (M.S.) Software Engineering at George Mason University
English, Arabic
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Github Skills (44)
drupal10
docker10
testing10
acquia10
automation10
virtualbox10
vagrant10
cms9
backdrop9
git9
laravel9
craftcms9
wordpress9
moodle9
ansible9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
debugacademy/academyvm
Sep 2015 - Mar 2020
Contributions:6 PRs, 60 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 6 months
drupal
debugacademy/drupal
Feb 2020 - Feb 2023
A simple Drupal 8+ repository used for some of Debug Academy's training classes.
Contributions:67 commits, 2 PRs, 87 pushes in 3 years
drupal
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