Wes Ruvalcaba
Developer at Giant Rabbit
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolWes Ruvalcaba is an experienced full-stack developer with 11 years building accessible, design-forward web experiences for nonprofits, enterprise, and higher-education clients. Currently at Giant Rabbit, he rebuilt complex civic tools and integrated Drupal 10 with CiviCRM, focusing on accessibility, form design, and pragmatic client collaboration. Previously a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat, he led a documentation reskin that improved NPS by 30 points and authored shared front-end components used across the company. His background blends hands-on front-end theming—demonstrated by thoughtful UI contributions to the Backdrop Seven theme—with systems thinking around architecture, onboarding, and technical debt reduction. Based in Chicago, Wes pairs an illustration-trained eye with robust engineering discipline, making him as comfortable refining CSS and animations as designing scalable component libraries. He thrives on translating messy requirements into polished, maintainable user experiences.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Illustration, BA, Illustration at Columbus College of Art & Design
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Github Skills (11)
css10
responsive-design10
cms10
ui-design10
css-selectors9
pseudo-elements9
sass6
drupal6
javascript6
twig6
php4
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
backdrop/backdrop
Mar 2015 - Apr 2017
Backdrop core code repository.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:32 commits, 88 PRs, 176 comments in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Wes focused on enhancing the Seven theme's user interface, primarily through CSS modifications. Their contributions included adding custom fonts, styling system messages, updating breadcrumbs, and theming administration tabs. They also addressed layout and alignment issues, updated field settings buttons, styled the progress bar with animation, and improved the appearance of table elements. The user consistently addressed visual design and responsiveness throughout their commits.
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wesruv/backdrop
Mar 2015 - Aug 2024
Backdrop core code repository.
Contributions:205 pushes, 78 branches in 9 years 7 months
backdropcode-repository
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