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Location Vienna
Current Role(s): 
Managing Partner, CTO
drunomics
Member, Co-founder
Drupal Austria
IRC: 
fago

Professional Info

Companies Worked For
jobiqo - job board technology, zites internet solutions, Pro.Karriere

Personal Info

Pronouns: 
he/him
Primary language: 
German
Other languages: 
English
German

On Drupal.org for 19 years 2 months

Over 100 edits to documentation

Bio: 

Wolfgang Ziegler is a passionate Drupal contributor and system architect from Vienna, Austria. He is "Managing Partner, CTO" at drunomics in Vienna.

Wolfgang Ziegler - known as fago in the Drupal community - is working with Drupal since 2005. Since then, he authored a variety of different modules, like Rules, Profile2 and their predecessors. He is past maintainer of the core Form and Entity API subsystems and was the lead behind Entity API improvements in Drupal 8, like the new Entity Field API and the underlying Typed Data System.

As part of his position at drunomics, Wolfgang gained a vast experience in utilizing a decoupled architecture by decoupling Drupal and combining it with a Nuxt.js frontend. Furthermore he is an advocate of DevOps principles and loves helping to establishing a DevOps mindset and practices.

Contributor roles

✓ Can opt projects into security advisory coverage

Drupal Contributions: 

Core contributions

  • Lead of Drupal 8 Entity API improvements like adding the new Entity Field API and the underlying Typed Data API.
    • Maintainer of the Typed Data API sub-system
      • I'm past maintainer of the form and entity sub-systems of Drupal 7 and Drupal 8
      • Various improvements and bug-fixes, mostly around the form amd entity API.

      Contrib contributions

      I'm maintaining the following modules:

      Non-code contributions

      • Co-founder of the Drupal Austria user group, co-organizer of the Drupalcamp Vienna
      • I helped organizing Drupalcamp Vienna 2009 & 2013
      • I participated in the Google Summer of Code program as student and several times as mentor; i.e. I helped architecting the Search API module as well as the Views query backend abstraction which the Search API Views integration builds upon that way

    Events volunteered at

    Events spoken at

    Areas of Expertise: 
    Project technical lead
    System Architecture & Design
    Development Operations
    Developer
    Drupal events: 
    DrupalCon Barcelona 2007
    DrupalCon Szeged, Hungary 2008
    DrupalCon DC 2009
    DrupalCon Paris 2009
    DrupalCon San Francisco 2010
    DrupalCon Copenhagen 2010
    DrupalCon Chicago 2011
    DrupalCon London 2011
    DrupalCon Denver 2012
    DrupalCon Munich 2012
    DrupalCon Portland 2013
    DrupalCon Prague 2013
    DrupalCon Austin 2014
    DrupalCon Amsterdam 2014
    DrupalCon Barcelona 2015
    DrupalCon Dublin 2016
    DrupalCon Vienna 2017
    Drupal Europe 2018
    DrupalCon Amsterdam 2019
    DrupalCon Global 2020
    DrupalCon Europe 2020
    DrupalCon North America 2021
    DrupalCon Europe 2021
    DrupalCon Prague 2022

    Credited on 2 security advisories

    Credited on 463 fixed issues

    Projects maintained

    ACL
    Silver Drupal Certified Partner
    Drupal Association Organization Member
    Drupal Association #DrupalCares Supporter
    Drupal Association Individual Member

    fago helps support and grow the Drupal community with the Drupal Association.

    42 people list fago as a mentor

    I contributed Drupal patches
    I contributed Drupal modules
    I contributed Drupal installation profiles
    I contributed to Drupal issue queues
    I contributed Drupal documentation
    I contributed Drupal translations
    I helped organize DrupalCon
    I contributed Automated tests
    I provide Drupal-related services
    I help mentor new contributors