Joe Parsons
Web Architect V & Tech Lead - Campus Web Services at University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoe Parsons is a seasoned web architect and technical lead with over a decade of experience designing and operating full stack web platforms, currently leading Campus Web Services at the University of Arizona. He specializes in Drupal-driven CMS architecture, cloud migrations (AWS, Acquia), and building reusable platform tooling that has simplified deployment and maintenance for dozens of institutional sites. Comfortable across front-end, back-end, and dev-ops responsibilities, he has led enterprise branding, faculty profile APIs, and a CMS-as-a-service effort that modernized campus web delivery. His background spans custom application work (CakePHP, Silex), virtualization and server administration, and even grassroots nonprofit e-commerce for fundraising events—evidence of a pragmatic, impact-focused engineer who balances technical depth with institutional needs.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Management Information Systems, Master of Science, Management Information Systems at University of Arizona, Eller College of ManagementThe University of UtahAssociate of Science, Computer Information Technology, Associate of Science, Computer Information Technology at Dixie State University
English, Spanish
Github Skills (75)
cms10
right-to-left10
composer10
pantheon10
content-management-system10
documentation10
drupal10
upstream10
php10
content-management10
javascript9
quicksilver9
bootstrap9
css9
sarif8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
az-digital/az_quickstart
Oct 2019 - Jan 2023
UArizona's web content management system built with Drupal 10.
Contributions:1 release, 2136 reviews, 570 commits in 3 years 4 months
cmsmanagement-systemphpdrupaldrupal-8
az-digital/arizona-bootstrap-packagist
May 2020 - May 2024
Composer package containing Arizona Bootstrap dist assets for use by PHP / Drupal projects.
Contributions:23 reviews, 20 PRs, 18 pushes in 4 years
phpdrupalcomposer-packagecomposerdist
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