Ben Dougherty
PHP Developer at unearthed
Mandurah, Western Australia
Summary
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RockstarBen Dougherty is a PHP developer and entrepreneur with 14 years of experience building web applications and leading technical teams. He co-founded and led Drupal-focused agencies, was a Principal Technical Lead at Unearthed Solutions where he built challenge platforms and production ML pipelines, and contributed significantly to the Drupal ecosystem as a top-50 contributor and member of the Drupal Security Team. Ben’s open-source work includes overhauling Drush’s migrate-manifest command—adding import commands, configuration options and tests—which improved content migration reliability for Drupal 8. In 2018 he translated his leadership and product instincts into tourism entrepreneurship, founding Pirate Ship Mandurah and growing it to a TripAdvisor top-15 global family attraction. Comfortable switching between hands-on backend development, ML deployment consulting and business operations, he combines technical depth with an uncommon knack for building community-facing products.
14 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (15)
php10
drupal10
drush10
symfony9
cli9
testing9
phpunit9
yaml9
symfony-ux9
html6
wordpress6
ajax6
javascript6
selenium6
jquery6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
drush-ops/drush
Apr 2014 - Mar 2015
Drush is a command-line shell and scripting interface for Drupal, a veritable Swiss Army knife designed to make life easier for those who spend their working hours hacking away at the command prompt.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 4 PRs, 6 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Ben primarily contributed to the Drush project by implementing and overhauling the `migrate-manifest` command. This involved creating new commands for importing content into Drupal 8, including adding source and destination configuration options. The user also wrote tests for the `migrate-manifest` command, demonstrating a focus on ensuring the command's functionality and reliability within the Drupal ecosystem. Moreover, the user refactored the command to use CMI overrides.
command-linecommand-promptdrupaldrushscripting-interface
benjy/platform-backup
Jul 2017 - Jul 2022
Contributions:11 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years
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