Steve Wirt
Senior Engineer at Science Joy Wagon
Venice, Florida, United States
Summary
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RockstarSteve Wirt is a Senior Engineer with 12 years of experience specializing in backend PHP and Drupal development, currently leading backend practice and CMS work for federal clients like the Department of Veterans Affairs at CivicActions. He combines agile, process-oriented engineering with a strong focus on migrations and custom Drupal module development, and has contributed backend enhancements to high-profile civic projects such as the WhiteHouse “We The People” petitions system. Based in Venice, Florida, he brings an educator’s mindset from decades designing award-winning instructional technology and physics curricula, applying clarity and usability to complex web systems. Known for civic-tech passion and pragmatic problem-solving, he surfaces non-obvious data-model improvements (e.g., petition isSignable/isPublic filters) to make large platforms more accurate and actionable.
12 years of coding experience
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (8)
drupal10
php10
back-end-development10
mongodb-database9
apidoc9
mongodb9
api9
query-optimization9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
WhiteHouse/petitions
May 2014 - May 2014
Drupal installation profile powering We The People at petitions.whitehouse.gov
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:21 commits in 28 days
Contributions summary:Steve primarily focused on enhancing the backend functionality of the petitions system. Their work involved adding and modifying query parameters related to petition statuses, specifically introducing `isSignable` and `isPublic` filters. They also refined the system's logic to handle different petition statuses and how they are displayed. Furthermore, the user made changes to how the petition data is structured, adding and modifying properties like `isPublic` and `isSignable` to be used in queries and results.
govinstallation-profileinstallationdrupalpetitions
swirtSJW/drupal-govdelivery-bulletins
Nov 2019 - May 2023
This is largely a mirror repository of https://www.drupal.org/project/govdelivery_bulletins for use in seeing pull requests.
Contributions:14 PRs, 39 pushes, 13 branches in 3 years 6 months
repository-mirrordrupalpull-requests
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