Michael Head
Lead Evangelist, Digital Marketing & Vibe Coding at Acquia
Gainesville, Florida, United States
Summary
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SeniorMichael Head is a seasoned front-end engineer and founder with over a decade of experience building accessible, responsive web interfaces and leading product-focused teams. As Co-Founder of Dripyard and a senior front-end engineer at Agileana, he blends entrepreneurship with hands-on UI work, particularly in Drupal-themed ecosystems. He’s a long-time maintainer of Drupal’s core CSS and theme subsystems and has contributed practical accessibility and responsiveness improvements to high-profile projects like the U.S. Web Design System. Michael’s background includes leadership on the Drupal Association board and extended senior roles at Lullabot and Vaultes, demonstrating his mix of community stewardship and commercial delivery. Based in Gainesville, FL, he favors pragmatic refactors—such as replacing semantics with accessible controls and leveraging CSS for ARIA-driven states—to create durable front-end solutions. Peers know him for shipping thoughtful, well-tested UI changes that balance documentation alignment with user-facing polish.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (13)
html10
css10
javascript10
front-end-development10
uswds9
system9
firefox9
accessibility9
drupal6
google-chrome6
browser-detection6
apache6
solr6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
uswds/uswds
Jan 2022 - Apr 2022
The U.S. Web Design System helps the federal government build fast, accessible, mobile-friendly websites.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 19 commits, 1 PR in 2 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily focused on front-end development, specifically modifying the U.S. Web Design System (USWDS) to improve the user interface. Their contributions involved changing HTML elements in the footer for mobile responsiveness, including swapping `<h4>` tags for `<button>` tags. They also refined code to align with documentation and refactored JavaScript to leverage CSS styles against the `aria-hidden` attribute. Additionally, the user updated the tests and made sure that the `<button>` elements had the correct type attribute.
mobiledesign-systemsdesigngovernmentuswds
mherchel/fldc22
Nov 2021 - Jan 2023
Drupal 10 version of the Florida DrupalCamp website
Contributions:66 commits, 6 PRs, 94 pushes in 1 year 1 month
drupal
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