Gábor Hojtsy
Drupal Starshot Contribution Coordinator
Hungary
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolGábor Hojtsy is a veteran Drupal contributor and community strategist with 22 years of experience blending core engineering, product leadership and event organization. He has been a core committer since 2007, led the Drupal 8 multilingual initiative with 1,300+ contributors, and maintains key developer tools and services including work on the drupal/drupal core repository. As Drupal Starshot Contribution Coordinator and a long-time Product Manager, he bridges technical direction and community enablement to make contribution pathways easier at scale. He co-led major conferences (DrupalCon, DevDays, Drupal Europe) handling content and multi‑hundred‑thousand euro budgets, and still frequently delivers keynotes and initiative-level talks. Beyond tech, he co-founded a state-accredited primary school and spent years in musical theatre and choir — an unusual mix that reflects his lifelong commitment to teaching, public performance and community-building. Based in Hungary, he combines hands-on backend development with deep experience in documentation, localization and developer training.
22 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Computer Science Computer Science, Master of Computer Science Computer Science at Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Hungarian, English
Github Skills (5)
drupal10
php10
back-end-development10
code-documentation9
git9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
drupal/drupal
Apr 2007 - Jul 2022
Verbatim mirror of the git.drupal.org repository for Drupal core. Please see the https://github.com/drupal/drupal#contributing. PRs are not accepted on GitHub.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2268 commits in 15 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Gábor primarily focused on code-level modifications within a Drupal-based back-end development context, as indicated by the commits. The user addressed a range of issues, including bug fixes, enhancements, and refactoring, working on the system's core components, and also contributed to modules. The user was also responsible for adding and improving documentation.
symfony-consolephpdrupalprsdrupal-8
kgaut/drupal-potx
Mar 2007 - Dec 2015
Translation template extractor port for Drupal 8
Contributions:137 commits in 8 years 10 months
translationphpdrupaldrupal-8
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