Jay Darnell
Drupal Technical Lead at Kanopi Studios
Oregon, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJay Darnell is a Drupal Technical Lead with nine years in web development and a prior seven-year foundation in database analysis and support programming, blending deep backend chops with front-end theming and design. He has led multi-site Drupal 7 builds, migrated data, and created custom modules at scale—often as the sole developer responsible for end-to-end delivery—and now guides technical strategy at Kanopi Studios after a multi-year technical lead role at CivicActions. Comfortable across ASP.NET, Joomla, WordPress and especially Drupal (5–8), Jay pairs a builder’s mindset with graphic and illustration skills to create thoughtful, user-focused sites. He’s motivated by using technology to improve society and brings a pragmatic, efficiency-minded approach honed from database performance work and long-running production systems. Less obvious: his background as a database analyst gives him a rare instinct for data-driven site architecture and pruning strategies that keep large CMS deployments performant.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Southwest Baptist University
English
Github Skills (45)
drupal10
user-feedback10
datastore10
open-data10
sling10
product-management10
oms10
cockpit10
portal10
rad10
editor9
php9
dkan9
ckan9
frontend8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
JayDarnell/va.gov-cms
Sep 2021 - Mar 2023
Editor-centered management for Veteran-centered content.
Contributions:301 pushes, 76 branches in 1 year 5 months
centerededitor
JayDarnell/palebluebot
Apr 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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