Bob Mcdonald
Drupal Practice Lead at Kalamuna
Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolBob Mcdonald is a seasoned Drupal practice lead with 13 years of experience building multilingual, usability-focused web solutions across nonprofits, international organizations, and agencies. He currently architects and leads Drupal teams at Kalamuna, bringing prior technology leadership as Director for Technology Solutions at IGES and a decade-plus of web development at the World Bank. His strengths lie in designing multi-local, standards-compliant sites that prioritize accessibility, translation workflows, and user testing to serve global audiences. Bob pairs hands-on technical leadership with a practitioner’s eye for usability and localization, having run his own web studio early in his career. Based in Maple Ridge, BC, he combines international business and Japanese studies background with deep practical experience in web standards and content strategy. He is notable for translating complex institutional requirements into maintainable Drupal architectures that scale across languages and regions.
13 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BBA, International Business, Japanese Studies Minor, BBA, International Business, Japanese Studies Minor at Boise State UniversityButte County High School
English, Japanese
Github Skills (89)
moodle10
python10
scrapy10
crawler10
web-development10
flask10
backdrop10
wordpress10
pantheon10
wsgi10
laravel10
pyramid10
micro-framework10
webapp10
typo310
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
UltraBob/gitignore
Oct 2016 - Nov 2022
A collection of useful .gitignore templates
Contributions:4 PRs, 2 pushes in 6 years 1 month
templateversion-controlgitignoregitignore-templatestiddlywiki5
UltraBob/backblazeTracker
Jul 2014 - Apr 2015
Contributions:1 release, 26 commits, 3 pushes in 8 months
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