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Software Developer
Riyadh, Riyadh Province, Saudi Arabia
Toptal member since April 30, 2018
Bio
Bilal is a Software Engineer with 16 years of experience in web development. An expert in Drupal development, he has created a variety of informative portals and e-services platforms in use by organizations of all sizes. He is interested in Agile, Scrum, and Kanban for IT projects development and operation.
Portfolio
Tamkeen Technologies
Drupal 7, Drupal 8, Drupal 9
Ministry of Housing
GitLab, Git, Drush, Drupal
SharedTech Est.
MySQL, PHP, Drupal
Experience
- MySQL - 12 years
- PHP - 12 years
- CSS - 12 years
- HTML - 12 years
- Drupal - 9 years
- jQuery - 5 years
- Git - 3 years
- Agile - 3 years
Availability
Part-time
Preferred Environment
Jira, Sublime Text, Drush, Git, Drupal, OS X
The most amazing...
...project I've developed was a faculty members portal that serves about 6,800 faculty individual websites.
Work Experience
Drupal Development Lead
2019 - PRESENT
Tamkeen Technologies
- Developed an e-learning platform for all private education institutions in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
- Completed the development and operation for more than 16 portals and platforms in the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development, which included work with Drupal 7, 8, and 9.
- Constructed the main official website and intranet portals for Tamkeen technologies company, also developed many platforms for governmental entities in Saudi Arabia.
Technologies: Drupal 7, Drupal 8, Drupal 9
Drupal Development Lead
2016 - PRESENT
Ministry of Housing
- Served as the Drupal development subject matter expert, and led the team in planning and developing projects.
- Integrated APIs and other eServices.
- Developed Drupal modules and themes.
- Managed Drupal projects versioning using Git and GitLab; and Drupal development using Drush.
Technologies: GitLab, Git, Drush, Drupal
Senior Web Development
2014 - 2016
SharedTech Est.
- Developed and managed web portals, government eServices and applications, and intranets including employee portals.
- Planned and analyzed Drupal projects.
Technologies: MySQL, PHP, Drupal
Senior Web Developer
2009 - 2014
King Saud University
- Analyzed web applications systems.
- Developed academic portals, faculty portals, learning eServices, and portals for deanships and colleges.
- Integrated Google Maps APIs.
Technologies: CSS, jQuery, HTML, MySQL, PHP, Drupal
Senior Web Developer
2007 - 2009
Mustashar Al-Taqnya Est.
- Analyzed, structured, and developed web portals, eServices, and APIs.
- Managed web projects.
- Optimized for SEO, security, and performance.
Technologies: CSS, HTML, JavaScript, MySQL, PHP
IT manager
2007 - 2009
Olayya Private Schools
- Contributed to web portal and learning management system development.
- Operated and maintained smart class boards.
- Analyzed and managed students information.
Technologies: CSS, HTML, JavaScript, MySQL, PHP
Experience
King Saud University Portal
http://ksu.edu.sa/enI worked with amazing team in development the main King Saud University web portal.
We used Drupal as a main platform.
We used Drupal as a main platform.
Faculty Websites - King Saud University
http://fac.ksu.edu.sa/homeIt was a great experience to builds one Drupal portal using Drupal multi sites technique ( DMS ), it serves about 6,800 faculty member individual portals
News Portal - King Saud University
http://news.ksu.edu.sa/enIt is the media center for King Saud University, we used Drupal 7 as main platform, it has many news categories and sections, and contains about 122,000 news materials.
Services Providers
Services Providers is one of Ministry of Housing initiatives.
It is a business gate where services providers can add there services, so, beneficiaries can search and request to get one or more services.
The system allow online contracting, billing and payment.
We used Drupal 7 to develop it.
It is a business gate where services providers can add there services, so, beneficiaries can search and request to get one or more services.
The system allow online contracting, billing and payment.
We used Drupal 7 to develop it.
Real Estate Subdivision System
Real Estate Subdivision is one of Ministry of Housing initiatives.
It allow the stockholders to organize the process of real estate units division.
The system allow online division, billing, and payment.
We used Drupal 7 to develop it.
It allow the stockholders to organize the process of real estate units division.
The system allow online division, billing, and payment.
We used Drupal 7 to develop it.
Ministry of Housing Portal
https://housing.saIt is the main portal of Ministry of Housing.
I worked with a powerful Drupal team to struct and develop it.
We used Drupal 7, and already started migration it to Drupal 8.
I worked with a powerful Drupal team to struct and develop it.
We used Drupal 7, and already started migration it to Drupal 8.
Education
2001 - 2005
Bachelor's Degree in Informatics Engineering
Tishreen University - Latakia, Syria
Skills
Libraries/APIs
jQuery, Google Maps
Tools
Git, Drush, GitLab, Sublime Text, Trello, NGINX, Varnish, Apache, Google Analytics, Adobe Photoshop, Basecamp, Jira
Platforms
Drupal, OS X, Linux, MacOS, Drupal 7, Drupal 8, Drupal 9
Storage
MySQL, Azure Active Directory
Languages
PHP, CSS, JavaScript, HTML
Paradigms
Agile
Frameworks
Zend Framework, CodeIgniter
Other
Command-line Interface (CLI), APIs, SEO Tools, LDAP
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