Jigar is available for hire
Hire JigarJigar Mehta
Verified Expert in Engineering
Drupal Developer
Vancouver, Canada
Toptal member since November 8, 2022
Bio
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.
Portfolio
Symetris
Drupal, PHP, SQL, DevOps, Docker, Docker Compose, JavaScript
Evolving Web
Drupal, PHP, JavaScript, SQL, HTML, CSS, DevOps
Experience
- SQL - 12 years
- PHP - 12 years
- JavaScript - 12 years
- Drupal - 10 years
- DevOps - 3 years
- Ruby - 2 years
- Python - 2 years
- TypeScript - 1 year
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.
Work Experience
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/enBuilt 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/drallCreated 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.
Certifications
MAY 2022 - PRESENT
Acquia Certified Drupal 9 Developer
Acquia
MAY 2022 - PRESENT
Acquia Certified Back End Specialist – Drupal 9
Acquia
MAY 2022 - PRESENT
Acquia Certified Drupal 9 Front End Specialist
Acquia
JUNE 2019 - PRESENT
Acquia Certified Back End Specialist – Drupal 8
Acquia
JUNE 2019 - PRESENT
Acquia Certified Drupal 8 Front End Specialist
Acquia
MAY 2019 - PRESENT
Acquia Certified Drupal 8 Developer
Acquia
APRIL 2017 - PRESENT
Acquia Certified Drupal 7 Developer
Acquia
Skills
Tools
Shell, Docker Compose, Apache Solr
Languages
PHP, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, SQL, TypeScript, Ruby, Python
Platforms
Drupal, Drupal 8, Drupal 9, Drupal 7, Docker
Frameworks
Django
Paradigms
DevOps, Object-oriented Programming (OOP)
Other
Data Migration
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