Jonathan Hedstrom
Senior Software Architect at Phase2
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Jonathan Hedstrom is a Senior Software Architect based in Portland, Oregon with 15 years of experience leading large-scale Drupal migrations, enterprise integrations, and engineering teams. He blends deep hands-on engineering—PHP, BDD, automated testing, CI/CD, Docker and Kubernetes—with pragmatic architecture for clients ranging from Memorial Sloan Kettering to global brands. A long-time open-source contributor, he has improved core Drupal tooling such as Drush and built the Drupal Behat extension integration, driving better automated testing and dependency handling across projects. Jonathan is as comfortable managing developer teams and processes as he is diving into autoloaders, makefile refactors, and performance tuning, and he often embeds open-source contribution into daily delivery workflows. His background in physics and early research roles gives him a rigorous, data-driven approach to problem solving and systems design.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Physics, Mathematics, BS, Physics, Mathematics at Pitzer College
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drupal10
behat10
testing10
command-line-interface10
makefile10
php10
command-line10
drush10
cli10
autoload8
symfony-ux7
symfony7
menu6
jquery6
tree6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
jhedstrom/drupalextension
May 2012 - Jan 2023
An integration layer between Behat, Mink Extension, and Drupal.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:37 releases, 3 reviews, 999 commits in 10 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Jonathan's contributions primarily revolve around implementing testing for core features and fixing issues related to the autoloader and dependencies. Their work includes writing tests for search functionality and addressing integration issues within the Drupal extension. Additionally, they made updates related to theme handling and code standards.
behatbehat-extensionphpdrupaldrupal-8
drush-ops/drush
Oct 2011 - Aug 2016
Drush is a command-line shell and scripting interface for Drupal, a veritable Swiss Army knife designed to make life easier for those who spend their working hours hacking away at the command prompt.
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:275 commits, 46 PRs, 50 pushes in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Jonathan primarily contributed to the `drush` command-line tool, focusing on the "make" command. Their work involved refactoring and enhancing the build process, including converting makefiles to a more Drupal-friendly format, implementing a caching mechanism for downloads, and improving error handling. Furthermore, the user improved the dependency handling functionality by enabling recursion for certain types of builds and enabling a YAML-based makefile format. Their contributions improved the tool's features, added support for new functionalities such as YAML-based makefiles, and enhanced the dependency resolution process.
prestashop-moduleshellcliscriptingsymfony-console
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