Sascha Grossenbacher
Chief Technology Officer at MD Systems GmbH
Olten, Solothurn, Switzerland
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Top SchoolSascha Grossenbacher is a seasoned CTO and Drupal specialist with 17 years of experience building and leading web projects from architecture to QA out of Olten, Switzerland. He combines deep hands-on expertise in Drupal, PHP, MySQL and Linux with operational experience on WebLogic, Tomcat and Apache gained in federal IT roles. As (co-)maintainer of widely used Drupal modules like Privatemsg and Userpoints and a contributor to key tools such as Drush and the Behat-Drupal integration, he focuses on pragmatic, standards-compliant backend engineering and test automation. At MD Systems he steers customer projects while contributing open-source improvements that modernize Drupal testing and PHP compatibility. Colleagues rely on his knack for refactoring legacy code and simplifying maintenance-mode and cache workflows—skills honed by long-term contributions to command-line and integration tooling. He pairs formal IT training with a persistent drive to make Drupal ecosystems more robust and automatable.
17 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Sience, Information Technology, Bachelor of Sience, Information Technology at Hochschule Luzern - Technik & ArchitekturIT specialist, Software Develpment, IT specialist, Software Develpment at Berufsschule
German, English
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Github Skills (17)
drupal10
behat10
php10
drush10
cli10
testing9
caching9
symfony9
symfony-ux9
database8
databases8
sql7
drupal-module6
menu6
model-view-controller6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
jhedstrom/drupalextension
Apr 2014 - Apr 2022
An integration layer between Behat, Mink Extension, and Drupal.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 16 commits, 6 PRs in 8 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Sascha primarily contributed to the Drupal extension by enhancing its core functionality. They added features for managing Drupal entities such as nodes and terms, including creation, deletion, and role assignment. Furthermore, the user optimized the code by integrating Drupal 8's AJAX handling and refactoring the code to adhere to coding standards, and removed D8 testing, fixing PHP 8.1 issues, including using a friend-of-behat mink extension fork.
behatbehat-extensionphpdrupaldrupal-8
drush-ops/drush
Mar 2014 - Jul 2018
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:14 commits, 12 PRs, 34 comments in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Sascha primarily focused on Drupal backend development, contributing to the Drush command-line tool. Their work included refactoring and modifying existing functionalities by removing obsolete code and implementing new features. The user addressed updates to entity definitions and improved the handling of cache invalidation. They also updated the maintenance mode configuration for update scenarios.
prestashop-moduleshellcliscriptingsymfony-console
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