Sascha

Sascha Grossenbacher

Project lead developer, CTO MD Systems

Sascha is the technical lead for the Primer product development. His outstanding skills and knowledge are guarantee for an easily maintainable product of highest quality.

Experience and expertise

Sascha is co-maintainer of multiple Drupal core subsystems and maintainer of many modules since 2008. He is credited for 1200 contributions to Drupal core and has 3500 commits in 130 different contributed projects.

For 2 years he has been chief developer and architect of the NP8 project and implemented numerous web projects with it. Now he is responsible for the continuous development of the Primer project.

His passion for Drupal goes beyond technical matters, he actively strengthens the community. As a mentor, he supports experienced and new developers through various channels: Code reviews, IRC, events, MD Systems’ students program and he is active on Drupal Answers (stackexchange page) since the first day.

Milestones

2007

Won "Medallion of Excellence" at the WorldSkills competition in Shizuoka, Japan

2008

First contributions to Drupal

2011

Bachelor of Science Information Technology FH, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts

2011

Open Source Youth Award for contributions to Drupal Core

2012+

Maintainer of the Entity system in Drupal core

2014+

Maintainer of the Testing framework in Drupal core