Miguel Leal

A replacement for an existing website made in Drupal 7. As a back-end developer, I was involved from the project's beginning until its release. I liaised with a front-end developer to integrate all needed features and developed most of the Vue modules. These modules were some of the most challenging features of this part of the project. They are similar to a chatbot as they include an interactive chat with pre-loaded questions to determine and recommend a field of study.

I also integrated Drupal migrations because a lot of news needed to be transferred from the old Drupal 7. The integration of credit card payments with web forms was another custom implementation needed since the type of products for selling didn't fit into a usual commerce store. Based on a provided list of points, I also developed a system in parallel with the mentioned chatbot that can calculate and determine the vocational aptitude of students.

A website for a large group of libraries. I joined this project practically at its end to do some maintenance, but then I also started developing all the new features needed. As this project never had a dedicated front end, I worked as a full-stack developer on creating it. The website is uniquely complex because, even though it was made in Drupal, it is handled by an external API (OpenBib) that feeds it. This means that there is constant communication with this API, which requires careful handling of the cache to avoid performance issues.

A business-to-business (B2B) website that was built for a traveling app. As a back-end developer, I oversaw a small team of four developers, including myself. I developed a system to claim businesses through a phone number, using SMS integration from a Nexmo third-party service and a Google Places API for retrieving phone numbers. This claim allowed us to verify actual owners of businesses that would be able to improve their businesses inside the app, customize their profile, or buy extra features to make it stand out.

I integrated it with Stripe to handle the plan subscriptions and with a listing manager called Yext, which provided the possibility of delivering business updates across the network of the most well-known platforms, such as Google, Tripadvisor, Yahoo, Yelp, and others. As the number of updates could be high and as there was a need for some additional treatment of the data sent, I created an operation machine in Laravel that did a middleman job by processing images, verifying the content of the texts, and sending back the data to the app.

An online email validation service that identifies false or disposable email addresses. This project came more like a free-time job that I did in cooperation with three more experienced web artisan friends who are also passionate about creating thoughtful projects. The platform allows single or file-based validations and provides direct API integration or plugins/modules for the most used CMS platforms. We built it using Laravel and integrated it with a Stripe payment system.