Matthew Grasmick is a seasoned technology leader with 14+ years building developer products, open source tools, and cloud-native CMS platforms, currently serving as Vice President of Innovation at Acquia. He blends hands-on engineering chops—evidenced by contributions to high-profile PHP projects like Composer, Drush, and Phing—with product leadership across roles from startup CTO to senior product director at Acquia and AWS. Matthew excels at turning user insight into measurable outcomes, creating strategic roadmaps and coordinating cross-functional teams to deliver complex software at scale. His background in professional services and technical consulting sharpened his communication, estimation, and execution skills, while his open source work shows a pragmatic focus on build tooling, YAML support, and secure migration utilities. Based in Severna Park, MD, he pairs a philosophy BA with a practical bias for data-driven decisions and well-orchestrated delivery.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BA Philosophy General Education, BA Philosophy General Education at Boston College
Acquia's toolset for automating Drupal 8 and 9 development, testing, and deployment.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Contributions:103 releases, 1368 commits, 2591 PRs in 5 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily worked on automating the Drupal development, testing, and deployment process. Their contributions included refactoring Git pre-commit hooks to improve performance, changing PHP code validation, and integrating the project with the Dev Desktop settings and Tugboat. The user was also involved in various tasks related to the build process, configuration management, and ensuring the stability of the codebase by removing dependencies.
Drupal installation profile powering We The People at petitions.whitehouse.gov
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:66 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Drupal-based "We The People" petition platform. Their work involved theming updates to the service documentation, including CSS and potentially SASS modifications. The user also made changes to module files related to API functionality. Furthermore, the user updated files related to signature queue processing, including archiving and deletion processes, demonstrating knowledge of data management and potentially database interactions.
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