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title: "Wes Ruvalcaba"
url: "/about/wes-ruvalcaba"
type: bio
date: 2015-06-23
updated: 2023-06-13
---

# Wes Ruvalcaba

#  Wes Ruvalcaba 

 Former Senior Front-end Developer

 Columbus, OH

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Wes Ruvalcaba is a designer/developer gone, full-time front-end developer. He started building web sites in the '90s to show off his drawings and continued designing and building personal web sites until it became his career. Wes has a strong love for front-end coding, user experience, and analytics. He has been working in Drupal since version 6 when he started with Highlights for Children, where he led five web site redesigns, a large content data restructuring, and executed a myriad of online campaigns all leveraging Drupal.

Wes has taught web design and development at the Columbus College of Art & Design, Girl Develop It Columbus, and takes the opportunity to mentor when possible.

Wes lives in Columbus, Ohio with his dog, Lily.

 

 ##  Did you know? 

 Wes has a BFA in Illustration, where he focused on being a children's book illustrator.

 

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