Jigar Mehta, Drupal Developer in Vancouver, Canada
Jigar Mehta

Drupal Developer in Vancouver, Canada

Member since November 8, 2022
Jigar is a software engineer primarily based in Canada, with over six years of experience working with technologies like PHP, Ruby, Python, JavaScript, and SQL. He enjoys improving processes and finding long-term and creative solutions through coding.
Jigar is now available for hire

Portfolio

  • Symetris
    Drupal, PHP, SQL, DevOps, Docker, Docker Compose, JavaScript
  • Evolving Web
    Drupal, PHP, JavaScript, SQL, HTML, CSS, DevOps

Experience

Location

Vancouver, Canada

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

SQL, TypeScript, Ruby, PHP, Drupal, JavaScript, Shell, Django, Python

The most amazing...

...coding experience I've had is building a PHP-powered CMS from scratch.

Employment

  • Senior Web Developer

    2021 - PRESENT
    Symetris
    • Maintained a multilingual Drupal installation containing over 200 websites.
    • Created Drall, an open-source tool that helps with the development and deployment workflows of multisite Drupal installations.
    • Wrote performant, object-oriented PHP code to build Drupal apps that integrate with third-party APIs.
    Technologies: Drupal, PHP, SQL, DevOps, Docker, Docker Compose, JavaScript
  • Senior Software Developer

    2016 - 2020
    Evolving Web
    • Created several multilingual, responsive, accessible, and SEO-friendly websites.
    • Implemented a nightly sync of over 10,000 nodes from a non-Drupal website to Drupal.
    • Provided coding and other training sessions to several clients and Drupal enthusiasts.
    • Made several contributions to the Drupal community in the form of blog posts, commits, issue reports, and even an entire module, Sidr.
    • Optimized the performance of many Drupal websites using profiling tools like Blackfire and contributed to Blackfire.
    Technologies: Drupal, PHP, JavaScript, SQL, HTML, CSS, DevOps

Experience

  • Jigarius.com
    https://jigarius.com/

    Developed a modern-looking and SEO-friendly website using Drupal. It uses the UI Patterns module to facilitate component-driven development, making each component reusable. Special care was taken to ensure fast load times and satisfactory scores with front-end performance assessment tools.

  • Princeton University Press
    https://press.princeton.edu/

    Collaborated with a team on implementing a nightly migration mechanism for over 10,000 nodes from a non-Drupal source to Drupal 8. We used profiling tools and designed custom plugins that had to be used to optimize the migrations. Some of these plugins were later contributed to the Migrate Plus project.

  • CISSS de la Montérégie
    https://www.santemonteregie.qc.ca/en

    Built the official website of a healthcare system in Montérégie, Quebec. It is a multiple-language Drupal installation with Apache Solr search and color-coded content for the Eastern, Central, and Western regions.

  • Drall
    https://github.com/jigarius/drall

    Created an open-source tool for the Drupal community that helps speed up and streamline development and deployment workflows during multisite Drupal installations. It uses parallel processing to speed up execution and the industry-standard Console component to enhance the command-line experience.

Skills

  • Languages

    PHP, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, SQL, TypeScript, Ruby, Python
  • Platforms

    Drupal, Drupal 8, Drupal 7, Docker
  • Other

    Drupal 9, Data Migration
  • Frameworks

    Django
  • Tools

    Shell, Docker Compose, Solr
  • Paradigms

    DevOps, Object-oriented Programming (OOP)

Certifications

  • Acquia Certified Drupal 9 Developer
    MAY 2022 - PRESENT
    Acquia
  • Acquia Certified Back End Specialist – Drupal 9
    MAY 2022 - PRESENT
    Acquia
  • Acquia Certified Drupal 9 Front End Specialist
    MAY 2022 - PRESENT
    Acquia
  • Acquia Certified Back End Specialist – Drupal 8
    JUNE 2019 - PRESENT
    Acquia
  • Acquia Certified Drupal 8 Front End Specialist
    JUNE 2019 - PRESENT
    Acquia
  • Acquia Certified Drupal 8 Developer
    MAY 2019 - PRESENT
    Acquia
  • Acquia Certified Drupal 7 Developer
    APRIL 2017 - PRESENT
    Acquia

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