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Andres Torres
Verified Expert in Engineering
Drupal Developer
Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador
Toptal member since May 11, 2017
Bio
Andres is a senior PHP developer and Drupal architect who's developed demanding software solutions and Drupal implementations. He has over 12 years of experience with Drupal and describes himself as a Drupal solutions architect who can work on the back end as well as build the entire infrastructure.
Portfolio
Alliance Innovations LLC
Drupal, PHP, Back-end Development, CSS, HTML, JavaScript...
Taoti Creative
Drupal 8, Drupal 9
Taoti
Drupal 8, Drupal 9, Drupal
Experience
- Back-end - 12 years
- Technical Architecture - 12 years
- Drupal - 12 years
- Scrum - 8 years
- Service-oriented Architecture (SOA) - 8 years
- Agile Software Development - 8 years
- Unix/Linux Virtualization - 6 years
- REST - 5 years
Work Experience
Back-end Developer
2022 - 2022
Alliance Innovations LLC
- Maintained multiple Drupal 8 and Drupal 9 sites.
- Used Harvest for internal time tracking. Worked on Atlalasian solutions, especially Jira, for third-party clients.
- Worked on several Drupal 8 to Drupal 9 site upgrades, including Composer updates, Git management, database updates, and Acquia support.
Technologies: Drupal, PHP, Back-end Development, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), API Integration
Senior Back-end Developer
2019 - 2021
Taoti Creative
- Worked on multiple back-end challenges and integrations; worked with a front-end team and professionals to create awesome web projects; took part in Drupal migrations.
- Utilized Pantheon, CircleCI, and GitHub as the main sources on the projects for a long time.
- Helped front-end developers get the source they needed, relying on my JavaScript knowledge; contributed to DevOps operations in Linux environments.
- Constructed Drupal 7 and Drupal 8 sites; performed migrations to Drupal 9.
Technologies: Drupal 8, Drupal 9
Senior Drupal Developer
2019 - 2021
Taoti
- Designed and developed complex Drupal implementations for multiple US organizations.
- Implemented custom and complex back-end solutions using Drupal.
- Helped project managers and business analysts create software requirements and translate this business logic into build specs.
Technologies: Drupal 8, Drupal 9, Drupal
Drupal Solutions Architect | Drupal Senior Developer
2014 - 2018
Toptal Clients
- Served as a technical lead for Boots Road Group: it was an engagement made through Toptal; also worked as a Drupal back-end developer for ImageX Media, Canada.
- Performed freelance work for multiple organizations through Toptal.
- Worked as a solutions architect for Boots Road Group; worked as a Drupal back-end developer for ImageX Media, Canada.
- Acted as a solutions architect for Boots Road Group. Served as a Drupal back-end lead and team lead.
Technologies: LAMP, Drupal
Drupal Technical Lead
2011 - 2014
Dustland
- Acted as the technical lead of the Drupal projects.
- Designed and implemented a single sign-on process using OpenID connect for ProjectShare and the Texas Education Association.
- Designed and implemented a Drupal 7 solucion for Cisco affiliates, extensively using Organic Groups.
Technologies: LAMP, Drupal
Drupal Tech Lead
2008 - 2010
Oshyn. Inc.
- Designed and developed multiple Drupal projects.
- Mentored the team.
Technologies: LAMP, Drupal
PHP Senior Developer
2003 - 2008
Plus Projects S.A.
- Implemented custom CMSs in PHP for multiple clients in Ecuador.
- Implemented custom PHP software for the chain management of the Flower Shop Company.
Technologies: CSS, HTML, MySQL, Apache, PHP
Project History
OpenID Connect Extras
A Drupal 7 contributed module that I currently maintain and develop. It includes an add-on for single sign-on using the OpenID Connect standard.
Puntomio
Puntomio.com is a headless Drupal implementation using an Oracle back-end and SOAP web services.
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
A Drupal 8 site that consolidates different sources of previous mini sites of LSTHM to run in one single environment. It took multiple migration sources, MS SharePoint documents, JSON feeds, and other MySQL databases. I also handled the Solr search implementation and made intense use of Eck for a great content editing experience.
LMI Technologies
A Drupal 8 site with a multidomain and multilingual implementation. I made an extensive use of Twig templating with a Zend subtheme, Grunt, Eck, and block types for a great UI content experience.
ProjectShare
An implementation of a Drupal 7 site for educational purposes.
ETF
ETF.com is a Drupal 7 site designed for stock index publications.
Education
2003 - 2008
System Engineer's Degree in Computer Science
Universidad de las Américas - Quito, Ecuador
Skills
Libraries/APIs
jQuery, JSON API
Tools
Jira, VirtualBox, Apache, Varnish, NGINX, Slack, Apache Solr
Platforms
Drupal 8, Drupal 7, Apache2, Drupal, Linux, Drupal 6, Ubuntu, Pantheon, LAMP, Acquia Cloud, Drupal 9
Storage
JSON, Cache, Databases, MySQL
Languages
JavaScript, PHP, PHP 7, PHP 5, SQL, HTML, CSS, CSS3, HTML5
Paradigms
Service-oriented Architecture (SOA), REST, Agile Software Development, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Scrum
Frameworks
Bootstrap 3+, AngularJS, Twig
Other
Back-end, Technical Architecture, SOAP, Ajax, Unix/Linux Virtualization, Virtualization, API Integration, Single Sign-on (SSO), Back-end Development
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