Manish Kumar
Verified Expert in Engineering
PHP Developer
New Delhi, Delhi, India
Toptal member since September 23, 2024
Manish Kumar is a seasoned GenAI & LLM Engineer with 12+ years of experience building enterprise-scale CMS and AI-driven platforms. He helps businesses automate content workflows, validate large migrations, and unlock knowledge using RAG, vector search, and LLMs—blending deep Drupal expertise with practical, production-ready AI to deliver measurable results.
Portfolio
Experience
- PHP - 12 years
- jQuery - 10 years
- JavaScript - 10 years
- GitHub - 10 years
- Drupal 8 - 8 years
- Drupal 9 - 4 years
- Docker - 4 years
- Drupal 10 - 2 years
Preferred Environment
Drupal 10, PHP, JavaScript, jQuery, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning, Python 3, LangChain, Node.js, FastAPI
The most amazing...
...thing: I built an AI content validation engine that automated CMS migration QA using embeddings and RAG, reducing manual effort by ~60% and boosting accuracy.
Work Experience
Tech Lead
HCL Technologies
- Worked on a well-reputed pharma client's core team for their CMS development and worked on various features and modules that are being used on all global sites for them.
- Interacting with the client and gathering requirements along with stories, grooming, and planning.
- Developed an SEO tool to track page performance and list down issues specific to a page, which results in improving the overall SEO performance of the site.
Tech Lead
Publicis Sapient
- Involved as a senior Drupal developer and handled various development tracks for a well-reputed eCommerce client.
- Worked on a large services-based architecture website and implemented headless page layout design with labels and content.
- Managed performance and scalability for thousands of concurrent users.
Senior Software Developer
Kelltontech Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
- Worked for a well-reputed publications house for their eCommerce website. Developed it from scratch as a full-stack developer.
- Migrated it from PHP to Drupal 7 version, also handled search API using Solr.
- Maintained scalability as the site was catering to hundreds of concurrent users.
Senior Software Developer
Ebizon Netinfo Pvt Ltd
- Worked on various multiple Drupal sites for various domains such as eCommerce, blogs, healthcare, and technology.
- Worked on various migrations from PHP to Drupal when the Migration module was not present, using a custom batch script and shell script.
- Worked on a headless Drupal with Drupal 7 for an education and technical news portal.
Experience
Sciencenews.org
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https://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/Education
Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology
Shobhit University - Meerut, India
Certifications
Google Cloud Generative AI Leader
Google Cloud
AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer
AWS
AWS Certified AI Practitioner
AWS
GSDC Certified Generative AI Professional
GSDC
Acquia Drupal 9 Developer
Acquia
Acquia Drupal 8 Developer
Acquia
Skills
Libraries/APIs
jQuery, React, Node.js
Tools
GitHub, Jira, Shell
Languages
PHP, JavaScript, CSS, CSS3, HTML, HTML5, Python, Java, Python 3
Platforms
Drupal 8, Drupal 9, Drupal 10, Docker, WordPress, Drupal, Drupal 7, Oracle
Storage
MySQL
Industry Expertise
Healthcare
Paradigms
Agile
Other
Software Development, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Web App UX, Machine Learning, LangChain, FastAPI
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