Heather Drummond
Senior Front-end Drupal Development Consultant at Vistasmith
Eagan, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolHeather Drummond is a Senior Front-end Drupal Development Consultant with 12+ years building component-based design systems and bridging design and engineering to make sites that are accessible, performant, and easy for authors to manage. She leads distributed front-end teams, works directly with clients, and has deep practical experience in Drupal theme systems, content modeling, responsive CSS (including Grid and Custom Properties), and advanced animations. Heather pairs a design background with strong engineering skills—Twig, Sass, modern JS, Webpack/Gulp, Docker-based local development and CI—to deliver polished, maintainable implementations. She’s contributed to the Drupal Console project, adding theme-aware command functionality, and enjoys researching new techniques and sharing learnings via talks, articles and podcasts. Based in Eagan, MN, she also runs Vistasmith to consult with smaller organizations, combining product sense, communication skills, and hands-on troubleshooting to keep projects moving.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate Web Design, Certificate Web Design at Minneapolis CollegeBA English, BA English at Albion CollegeHigh School Diploma Honors program, High School Diploma Honors program at Hastings High School
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Github Skills (7)
drupal10
php10
console10
symfony10
symfony-ux10
cli10
code-generation9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
hechoendrupal/drupal-console
Nov 2015 - Mar 2016
The Drupal CLI. A tool to generate boilerplate code, interact with and debug Drupal.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 3 PRs, 6 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Heather primarily focused on enhancing the Drupal Console's functionality related to themes and commands. Their contributions involved enabling themes to provide custom commands, adding a `getThemes` function to the SiteHelper, and modifying the command discovery process. They also introduced features like resource translations for themes and autoloading generator classes defined within themes, showcasing a deep understanding of the project's architecture. Furthermore, the user addressed a conflict in the `getTheme` method and optimized code using default parameters.
code-generationpharcliboilerplatesymfony-console
RainbowArray/gulp-sass-globbing
Apr 2016 - Jun 2017
Gulp plugin to provide @import file map creation for Sass
Contributions:13 commits, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 1 year 2 months
sassgulp-plugingulpcssmap
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