Kris Olafson
Engineering Manager at Acquia
Cornwall, Prince Edward Island, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolKris Olafson is an experienced engineering manager with 11 years in web development and a deep specialty in Drupal and PHP, currently leading Acquia’s Customer Experience Core and Identity teams from Cornwall, PEI. He progressed through hands-on roles on Acquia’s Customer Experience API and Platform Messaging teams, blending platform engineering with product-focused delivery. Earlier in his career he led central web development and a campus-wide Drupal CMS rollout at the University of Waterloo, creating a reusable distribution and training program used by hundreds of sites. Kris pairs people-first management with technical expertise, coaching teams to ship reliable hosting and API services at scale. His background in both infrastructure and application layers—plus a BA in Philosophy—gives him a pragmatic, systems-thinking approach to complex engineering tradeoffs. Quietly, he favors solving developer experience and identity challenges that unlock faster delivery across large site ecosystems.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts Philosophy at Western University
Github Skills (17)
drupal7
php6
rest6
docker5
validation4
extensible3
openapi3
next-api3
json-schema3
swagger3
linter3
logger2
guzzle1
sendgrid1
psr-31
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
krisolafson/drupal-logger
Dec 2017 - May 2022
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months
loggerphpdrupalpsrpsr-3
krisolafson/drupal-phpunit
Dec 2017 - May 2022
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months
phpphpunitsimpletest
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