Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: a WordPress engineer walks into a room full of Drupal developers. It might sound like the setup for a joke, but there I was, at the end of my first DrupalCon, mic’d up and presenting at the Pantheon booth as if I had valuable insights for the Drupal community. You’re probably wondering how I got here. I know I am.

I love the hallway track at in-person conferences. Sure, the official sessions will show you the polished version of how web development should be done. But I want to talk to people about how it is really done.