Behind the Screens with Wes Ruvalcaba
Lullabot Senior Front-end Developer Wes Ruvalcaba talks about balancing the needs of multiple grounds of clients vying for attention on a website.
Wes’s first big open source contribution was to replace Bartik as the default theme in Backdrop.
https://github.com/wesruv/backdrop-starter-theme
In his spare time, Wes can often be found on Factorio (https://www.factorio.com/), listening to audio books, training his dogs, and drawing or sketching.
Wes gave a talk at Northern Lights Camp in Iceland.
Next he’s heading to DrupalCon Vienna to give a talk on WebVR.
Advice
- Put yourself in front of people
- Find local events, meet people.
Wes would like to thank
- His namesake and early inspiration Grandpa Wes,
- Jeff Eaton and Nate Lampton from the DVDs, and for not running away when he was starstruck,
- And Nate especially for leveling him up as a developer with Backdrop.