---
title: "Behind the Screens with Wes Ruvalcaba"
url: "/podcasts/drupal-voices/0231-wes-ruvalcaba"
type: episode
date: 2017-09-27
updated: 2017-10-05
---

# Behind the Screens with Wes Ruvalcaba

#  Behind the Screens with Wes Ruvalcaba 

  

*Podcast episode player*

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.

##  Episode Guests 

###  Wes Ruvalcaba 

 ![Thumbnail](/sites/default/files/styles/square_120x120/public/bios/wes-portrait-20181.jpg?itok=3V667TKm "wes-portrait-20181.jpg") 

 Wes is a former front-end dev at Lullabot.

 [  More about Wes   ](/about/wes-ruvalcaba)