April Sides

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ABOUT ME

Designer/Developer

April is a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat. She has experience in higher education, government and agency work. Her proudest project was the 2014 National Climate Assessment website released by The White House, nca2014.globalchange.gov.

Lead organizer for the annual conference Drupal Camp Asheville, drupalasheville.com.
Organizing team member for A11yTalks virtual digital accessibility meetup, a11ytalks.com.
Member of Drupal Community Working Group Community Health Team.

She loves helping others solve problems and level up their skills.

English

Eastern Time (US & Canada) (-04:00)

Joined January 2018

EXPERTISE

Drupal

12 years experience | 1 endorsement

I have experience in Drupal 6, 7 and 8+. I have experience in theming, module development, site building and localization/translation. I ...

I have experience in Drupal 6, 7 and 8+. I have experience in theming, module development, site building and localization/translation. I have submitted patches to and created sandbox projects on Drupal.org. I know how to use Drush to control Drupal in the command line. I help organize an annual conference called Drupal Camp Asheville.

PHP

14 years experience

I have built custom sites with PHP as well as use PHP/Symfony in Drupal. I understand both procedural and object-oriented PHP.

OOP Symfony

MySQL

14 years experience

I have built custom MySQL databases for PHP and Drupal projects. I understand complex queries with joins, conditions, etc. I have experie...

I have built custom MySQL databases for PHP and Drupal projects. I understand complex queries with joins, conditions, etc. I have experience using MySQL in phpMyAdmin, SequelPro and via the command line.

CLI phpMyAdmin

Git

6 years experience | 1 endorsement

I have used Git to update and deploy projects. I have experience with the PR workflow and various branch strategies. I've also had to che...

I have used Git to update and deploy projects. I have experience with the PR workflow and various branch strategies. I've also had to cherrypick commits a time or two. I have experience using Git in the command line.

CLI GitLab GitHub

HTML/CSS

18 years experience

I learned HTML while in college. I have used it extensively throughout my career in web design/development.

REVIEWS FROM CLIENTS

5.0

(1 reviews)

Hilary Stoddard

October 2020

Amazing help! Thank you so much for breaking down git and drupal for me. You are a lifesaver and I will definitely be reaching out in the future.

EMPLOYMENTS

Principal Software Engineer

Red Hat

2021-12-01-Present

Member of the Red Hat Developers Portal team. - Epic lead for a developers.redhat.com Learning Paths improvement project, which included ...

Member of the Red Hat Developers Portal team. - Epic lead for a developers.redhat.com Learning Paths improvement project, which included integrating Drupal with an external Data Lake (MongoDB). - Epic lead for a cloud.redhat.com Learning Paths feature parity project, which implemented similar functionality as developers.redhat.com Data Lake integration. - Interim Tech Lead for the developers.redhat.com team.

PHP

jQuery

Git

PHP

jQuery

Git

Drupal

Shell

Twig

Jira

PhpStorm

Developer/Senior Developer

Lullabot

2018-08-01-2021-12-01

A full-time position working as a part of a team to migrate the Georgia.gov platform of 85+ sites in a Drupal 7 multisite setup to a new ...

A full-time position working as a part of a team to migrate the Georgia.gov platform of 85+ sites in a Drupal 7 multisite setup to a new Drupal 8 multisite setup. This involved lots of complex, custom migrations due to a revised architecture. A great project, client and team. A full-time position working as a part of a team to upgrade the Georgia Public Broadcasting website from Drupal 7 to Drupal 8. Also working as a part of the Carnegie Mellon University and Commonwealth of Massachusetts teams.

PHP

jQuery

Git

PHP

jQuery

Git

Drupal

Jira

PhpStorm

Senior Drupal Developer

Mediacurrent

2016-04-01-2018-07-01

A full-time position as a back-end developer and project team lead. I work with cross-functional teams to maintain and add new features t...

A full-time position as a back-end developer and project team lead. I work with cross-functional teams to maintain and add new features to client websites. I provide detailed technical specification documentation for feature request solutions, create and groom tickets, review and merge pull requests, and deploy site updates. I also meet with clients and project teams to plan sprints, forecasts, and timelines.

PHP

jQuery

MySQL

PHP

jQuery

MySQL

Git

Drupal

CLI

Jira

PhpStorm

PROJECTS

2014 National Climate AssessmentView Project

The White House

2014

The National Climate Assessment summarizes the impacts of climate change on the United States, now and in the future. A team of more than...

The National Climate Assessment summarizes the impacts of climate change on the United States, now and in the future. A team of more than 300 experts guided by a 60-member Federal Advisory Committee produced the report, which was extensively reviewed by the public and experts, including federal agencies and a panel of the National Academy of Sciences. HabitatSeven provided the design and most of the frontend coding. The design featured a highly shareable architecture and mobile first design. I worked as lead Drupal developer to integrate their design and coding into a Drupal site with content types, taxonomy vocabularies, theming and custom modules. This site was launched by The White House.

Drupal

USGCRP Climate and Health AssessmentView Project

U.S. Global Change Research Program

2016

Climate change is a significant threat to the health of the American people. The U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) Climate and...

Climate change is a significant threat to the health of the American people. The U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) Climate and Health Assessment examines how climate change is already affecting human health and the changes that may occur in the future. The design combines elements of the USGCRP website with the design of the assessment PDF in a reusable template format for future reports. I was responsible for leading the web team and providing the back-end architecture.

Drupal