University Drupal Platform and CMS Framework

Role

Senior Web Developer

University of Arizona

Problem

University web properties needed reusable CMS, component, template, and workflow patterns so teams could ship and maintain content-heavy public sites without repeating engineering work.

Users

Campus web teams, content editors, developers, communications teams, and public audiences using university web properties.

Ownership

Owned or heavily contributed to CMS framework patterns, templates, components, custom modules, Views integrations, and implementation guidance.
Built and supported public platform work including news.arizona.edu.
Currently contributing to the Arizona.edu homepage redesign using Single Directory Components.

Hard Parts

Balancing Drupal content modeling, editor flexibility, frontend behavior, accessibility, performance, and long-term maintainability.
Supporting public-facing production systems while also improving reusable platform architecture.
Turning one-off stakeholder requests into repeatable patterns other developers and editors could use.

Leadership

Reduced repeated engineering work through reusable templates, CMS patterns, documentation, and implementation examples.
Supported junior developers and campus teams with Drupal guidance, troubleshooting, and production implementation patterns.
Helped move the platform toward more maintainable component architecture through Single Directory Components.

Shipped

CMS-integrated frontend patterns and Drupal-connected components.
Custom modules, Views integrations, AJAX-powered interfaces, templates, and paragraph-driven layouts.
Implementation guidance and documentation for campus web teams.
Production support and maintainability improvements across university web properties.

Impact

Made public university web properties easier to maintain, extend, troubleshoot, and hand off.
Improved publishing flexibility for stakeholder-managed content.
Created reusable approaches that reduced future implementation ambiguity.

Highlights

Built CMS-integrated experiences, reusable frontend patterns, Drupal-connected components, and editor workflows while keeping internal details private.
Created and maintained Drupal templates, paragraph-driven layouts, custom modules, Views integrations, and AJAX-powered interfaces.
Reduced repeated engineering work through reusable components, templates, implementation patterns, and documentation.
Supported production triage, stakeholder requests, junior developer guidance, and long-term maintainability.

Tools

DrupalPHPViewsAJAXJSON:APIGraphQLReactTypeScriptTemplatesCMS content modeling