Will Jackson (wjackson)

I have been an avid technology enthusiast for much of my life. The first website I built in the late 1990s for my middle football team using basic HTML and hosting via America Online. From there, I had several blogs and personal project sites and used various content management systems with varying degrees of success before stumbling upon Drupal. At the time, I was most interested in finding a content management system with an active community that could be versatile enough to build a wide variety of web applications.

Drupal proved to be the solution I was looking for with its vast library of contributed themes and modules. Community-contributed modules can provide the functionality needed to build almost any application, and the built-in APIs make it easy to override virtually any feature of the content management system in a way that's easy to maintain and deliver results.

Many Drupalers say they come for the code and stay for the community; that could not be more true for me. I have been fortunate to meet and work with a diverse group of developers worldwide and have had the fantastic opportunity to speak at various Drupal events across North America.

Drupal Experience

• Drupalin' since version 5
• Docksal is my preferred local dev environment
• TugboatQA for building test/QA environments
• CircleCI for CI/CD
• E-Commerce with Drupal Commerce and Ubercart D7/D6
• Custom theme/module development
• Co-organizer of the South Carolina Drupal User Group
• Co-organizer of Drupal Camp South Carolina

Hosting Platform Experience

• Pantheon
• Acquia
• Amazon Web Services
• Tencent Cloud
• VPS Hosting (Linode, Digital Ocean, LiquidWeb, etc.)
• Shared Hosting (GoDaddy, Bluehost, etc.)

Drupal Event Presentations

• Drupal Camp Asheville 2025 - Robot Co-Pilots: Accelerating Drupal Development with AI
• Drupal Camp Florida 2019 - Local Development Environments Panel
• Drupal Camp Florida 2018 - Local Development with Docksal
• Bad Camp 2017 - Docker in a Flash: Introduction to Drupal Development with Docker
• Drupal Camp Cornell 2015 - One Content Type to Rule them All!