Christian Espínola
Independent Contractor at Bodega La Aurora
Seville, Andalusia, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolChristian Espínola is an independent software engineer with 18 years of experience and a 12-year deep focus on Drupal and its ecosystem, helping organizations reduce TCO by centralizing platforms and automating deployments. He combines hands-on engineering—Drupal, PHP, Laravel, DevOps, Playwright/Cypress testing and CI/CD—with prolific open-source contributions that have increased visibility for clients within the Drupal community. He’s delivered high-availability B2B commerce systems, multi-site government and university platforms, and PCI/SCA-compliant payment integrations while mentoring teams and speaking internationally. Comfortable working remotely and asynchronously across US, NZ and European time zones, he excels at turning client needs into reusable open-source solutions and developer-friendly tooling (including ddev add-ons). Unusually for a senior engineer, he also runs two boutique wineries, bringing entrepreneurial discipline and real-world product stewardship to his technical work.
18 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
University of Seville
English, Catalan, Spanish, Italian
Github Skills (192)
e2e-testing10
moodle10
behat10
testing10
windows10
bash10
circleci10
symfony-console10
web-development10
backdrop10
javascript10
ddev10
wordpress10
linux10
chromium10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
penyaskito/customslider
Nov 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:11 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 3 months
phptranslatablecomprehensiondrupalconfig
Lingotek/example-csharp
Feb 2016 - Apr 2021
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 2 months
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