Ashraf Abed is a certified Drupal 7 and 8 Grand Master with a wealth of experience in web development. He is the founder and lead teacher at Debug Academy, where he teaches and empowers people to improve their careers in web development. Ashraf specializes in Drupal, React, PHP, Swift, JS, MySQL, Java, HTML, CSS, Photoshop, Apache Solr, Nginx, Varnish, and JavaScript. He attended the University of Maryland College Park and George Mason University, where he studied electrical engineering and software engineering, respectively. Ashraf has a vast range of expertise and skills in various programming languages such as C#, C, Python, XHTML, C++, JavaScript, and many more. He has worked as a technical architect at Acquia and lead developer on Whitehouse.gov and other high-profile Drupal websites. Fluent in Arabic and English, Ashraf is also knowledgeable in Verilog, CAD, Adobe Photoshop, vBulletin, OpenLayers, project management, and geospatial environments.