Rafael Silva

As a full-stack developer, I contributed to creating a Drupal 9 automotive dealership website for the Benzel-Busch group.

My responsibilities included:

• Migrating and improving code from a Drupal 7 site to establish a new Drupal 9 platform.

• Developing a new theme, aligning with Zeplin designs for pixel-perfect matching.

• Starting a gradual implementation of Drupal headless with React in the inventory explorer page, preserving the Drupal template regions.

• Building search functionality by implementing faceted Search through Solr, incorporating specialized domain terms for refined results. The indexed search data and facets are sourced from Drupal via REST API for React components.

• Enhancing the website performance by tuning Drupal's caching mechanisms, reducing requests to Acquia Search Solr, and reducing load speeds on the search/filtering operations and the overall website.

• Integrating the Rocket.Chat widget, working with the Rocket.Chat REST API for sending chat data to CRMs and the Rocket.Chat Livechat Widget API for analytics purposes.

• Managing the website on Acquia Cloud, using Acquia Pipelines for continuous integration and Acquia Search for faceted search with Solr.

In my role as the sole full-stack developer, I accomplished the following for the MIT Quest for Intelligence Drupal website:

1. In the initial phase, I built a Drupal 8 Knowledge Base website with a user-friendly interface designed using Marvel App and Adobe XD.

2. In the second phase, I developed the event's website, incorporating versatile event schedules that showcased post-event video records display and integrated Eventbrite's embedded checkout, all while implementing a challenging design.

3. In the third and final phase, I reworked the former MIT Quest for Intelligence WordPress website into Drupal 8, enhancing it with a modern UI and an easily maintainable codebase with PHP 8, ES6, Twig, and Sass. The Knowledge Base and events website were unified into the newly developed MIT Quest website. I also contributed to designs during this phase.

Additionally, I managed Drupal upgrades for the MIT Quest for Intelligence website, transitioning it from version 8 to 9 and then to 10 while resolving dependencies and compatibility issues.

I developed a portal in Drupal 7 with over 200 sub-sites in different domains, having most of its contents fed through an API and a user-friendly Google Maps integration in the residence searching mechanism.

I managed the AWS cloud structure and developed some features for the portal in Drupal 7, such as refactoring legacy code, integrating two payment gateways, and applying some changes to the client CRM integration.

I created a series of valuable enhancements for the Drupal 8 portal, including the tech blog, new landing pages with new styles, and refinements to the Drupal API that powers the Hugo static site generator.