mherchel

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Gainesville, FL, US

Current Role(s):

Senior Front-end Developer

Slack:

mherchel

Professional Info

Companies Worked For

AVB Digital, Lullabot

http://www.herchel.com

Personal Info

Pronouns:

he/him

Primary language:

English

Other languages:

English

On Drupal.org for 17 years 8 months

Over 100 edits to documentation

Bio:

Mike Herchel is a front-end developer that’s been developing with Drupal for over 15 years. He's a core CSS maintainer, and is the lead developer for Drupal's default theme, Olivero. Mike is also the maintainer of the Drupal Quicklink module, and is a primary organizer for Florida DrupalCamp. In addition, Mike is a member of the Drupal Starshot Advisory Council, and is a former elected at-large member of the Drupal Association Board of Directors.

Mike works as a senior front-end developer for Agileana, where he's working on a project to migrate 300ish US Federal Court websites to Drupal 10. He’s passionate about web performance, usability, and accessibility. You can often find him speaking on these subjects at DrupalCamps, DrupalCons, and various other web development conferences.

Contributor roles

Drupal Association board member
From 2021-11 until 2023-11

Community elected Board of Directors member 2021-2022
Drupal core subsystem maintainer
From 2022-09 to present

Co-maintainer of the core CSS subsystem
Drupal core subsystem maintainer
From 2020-08 to present

Olivero theme
Drupal core initiative coordinator CreditAttribution: Lullabot
From 2019-06 until 2022-05

Olivero initiative
Contributed module, theme, or distribution maintainer
From 2019-11 to present

Quicklink module
DrupalCamp Lead Organizer
From 2012-11 to present

Florida DrupalCamp
Discover Drupal mentor
From 2021-06 to present
Accessibility group member

Documentation guides

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Drupal Contributions:

Within the "Drupal-verse",

I'm an official maintainer of Drupal core's CSS
I'm also a maintainer of Drupal's default theme, Olivero.
I'm a co-organizer of Florida Drupalcamp
I am also the creator and maintainer of the Quicklink module, and a couple others that I'm working on

Outside of all of that, I try to promote Drupal and FOSS software where and when I can through coding, organizing conferences, speaking, podcasting, and more.