Moshe Weitzman
Software Architect at State of Massachusetts
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Moshe Weitzman is a seasoned software architect with 18+ years of experience who has been a core leader in the Drupal community since 2001, including founding groups.drupal.org and serving on the Drupal Association board and Security Team. He combines deep core-level expertise—having authored major parts of Drupal core and maintaining subsystems like users, comments, bootstrap and Drush—with practical delivery skills across large public-sector and enterprise platforms. Moshe has led R&D at Acquia, architected mass.gov’s open-source Drupal platform and implemented high-scale commerce and SSO solutions for major clients. He also contributes to prominent open-source projects such as Drush and the drupal-composer project, improving developer workflows and tooling for the ecosystem. Comfortable across backend, DevOps and AI integration work, he has built privacy-conscious local LLM search solutions and production load-testing pipelines using Rust tooling. Based in Cambridge, MA, he pairs long institutional knowledge of Drupal with a knack for pragmatic modernization and developer experience improvements.
18 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Roxbury Latin SchoolBS Materials Science Engineering, BS Materials Science Engineering at University of Pennsylvania
Spanish, English
Github Skills (15)
symfony-ux10
command-line-interface10
database-management10
drupal10
php10
drush10
composer10
symfony10
cli10
command-line10
caching9
testing8
devops8
bash7
cicd5
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
drush-ops/drush
Jan 2011 - Dec 2022
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:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:197 releases, 249 reviews, 3920 commits in 12 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Moshe primarily focused on improving the Drush command-line tool, with contributions centered around enhancing functionality and correcting errors in database interactions and template rendering. They fixed bugs in the cache system and implemented changes to the way data is processed within the tool, including updates to command execution and output formatting. The user also contributed to enhancing user-facing functionality with new commands related to site management.
prestashop-moduleshellcliscriptingsymfony-console
drupal-composer/drupal-project
Apr 2015 - May 2018
:rocket: Composer template for Drupal projects. Quick installation via "composer create-project drupal-composer/drupal-project"
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:11 commits, 10 PRs, 7 pushes in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Moshe primarily focused on improving the developer experience by standardizing Drush usage within the Drupal project. They implemented a system for managing Drush configuration, aliases, and commands, including creating a wrapper script. Subsequently, they refined the approach by moving scripts and adapting to the project's structure. Additionally, they updated the project to be compatible with Drush 9 and adjusted the configuration to accommodate newer project structures.
phpinstallationdrupalrocketcomposer
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