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Location United States
Current Role(s): 
Senior Drupal + Backdrop CMS Developer
Jeneration Web Development
Project Director
Co-Founder, PMC Member
Backdrop CMS
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Professional Info

Companies Worked For
Chapter Three, PagePoint Web Solutions
Industries Worked In: 
Web development, Backdrop CMS development, Drupal development, Technical training, Horse training & care, Dog training & care, Scientific research, Legal

Personal Info

Pronouns: 
she / her
Primary language: 
English

On Drupal.org for 17 years 6 months

Over 100 edits to documentation

Bio: 

Jen Lampton has been building websites since 1997, and participating in Open Source communities since 2006. She currently maintains dozens of Open Source projects, and contributes to others should it be necessary for her work.

Jen has been an active member of the Drupal Open Source community for over a decade. She has delivered many presentations at conferences, including being a Featured Speaker at several DrupalCon events, and a keynote speaker at several Drupal camp events.

To support and grow the Drupal community, Jen also volunteered countless hours on local Drupal events. From 2007-2017 She served as one of the lead organizers for the Bay Area Drupal Camp (also known as BADCamp) -- the largest free Drupal event in the world. She also served as one of the lead organizers for DrupalCon San Francisco in 2010.

Jen Lampton spent several years as the Director of Drupal training at Chapter Three in San Francisco. In that role she developed Drupal workshop materials, and used them to train hundreds of people all across the US on how to use and extend Drupal.

Jen joined the Drupal Usability team after watching her students struggle with Drupal's administrative and editorial interfaces. She volunteered to assist with several studies on usability and accessibility, and helped make improvements based on results from those studies.

Jen Lampton served as a Drupal 8 core initiative lead for almost 2 years. In this role she worked with many fantastic contributors to change the Drupal theme engine to from PHPTemplate to Twig. Her desire to make this change came from watching her students struggle with the complexity of Drupal.

Jen Lampton decided to collaborate on a fork of Drupal shortly after Twig was committed to core. In spite of the changes to the theme system, the rest of Drupal continued to slip farther out of the grasps of the average web developer. Her focus has now shifted to working on Backdrop CMS.

Contributor roles

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Drupal Contributions: 

Fighting for learnability, usability, and to make all Drupal things make more sense.

  • Former Drupal 8 Twig "initiative" lead
  • Drupal usability team member
  • BADCamp lead organizer 2007-2017
  • DrupalCon San Francisco 2010 co-lead organizer

Accepting sponsorshiop via GitHub Sponsors

Events volunteered at

Events spoken at

Areas of Expertise: 
Senior Drupal Developer
Drupal Trainer
Module developer
Theme developer
Site builder
Drupal Evangelist
Drupal community events coordinator
Drupal events: 
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 Sydney 2013
DrupalCon Portland 2013
DrupalCon Prague 2013
DrupalCon Latin America 2015
DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015
DrupalCon New Orleans 2016
DrupalCon Vienna 2017
DrupalCon Seattle 2019

Credited on 15 security advisories

Credited on 254 fixed issues

Projects maintained

40 people list jenlampton as a mentor

I contributed Drupal patches
I contributed Drupal modules
I contributed Drupal themes
I contributed to Drupal issue queues
I contributed to Drupal.org
I contributed Drupal documentation
I helped organize DrupalCon
I contributed Automated tests
I help in the Drupal support forums
I provide Drupal-related services
I give support on IRC
I answer on Drupal Answers
I help mentor new contributors