Xaq Rothman
Software Engineer III at Mighty Acorn Digital
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolXaq Rothman is a seasoned Software Engineer III with 11 years of experience building and leading web projects for progressive non-profits and government clients. He specializes in Drupal and has a proven track record delivering 2–3 major projects per year across budgets of $10k–$150k, while also working with WordPress, Laravel, Next.js, and modern front-end stacks like ES6, D3.js, Vue, and React. Xaq combines hands-on engineering—implementing custom modules, data visualizations, and migration plans—with client-facing consulting, drafting functional requirements, and guiding design and deployment processes. He champions development best practices, having led adoption of version control, pull-request workflows, CI, and agile processes across teams. Skilled at untangling legacy data models and automating multilingual workflows (including DeepL integration), he maintains long-term hosting and security for ~15 sustained projects. Based in Washington, DC, he contributes to open source and prefers pragmatic solutions that balance user experience, maintainability, and impact.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts Computer Science Music, Bachelor of Arts Computer Science Music at Sarah Lawrence College
Github Skills (88)
python10
ruby10
lando10
wordpress10
dotnet10
pantheon10
laravel10
advanced-custom-fields10
nodejs10
drupal10
docker10
php10
javascript9
cli9
shell9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
radcampaign/pulitzer2016
Jul 2016 - Sep 2017
Contributions:109 PRs, 289 pushes, 46 branches in 1 year 2 months
junecenteras-code
xaqrox/lando
Jan 2020 - Jan 2021
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Contributions:3 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 1 month
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