Rakesh James (rakesh.gectcr)

Who?

Rakesh James is a Drupal Expert who lives in Manchester, UK. He is working with Drupal for more than 15 years and he worked with Drupal 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 versions. Apart from Drupal, he is an expert of Apigee | API Management | Google Cloud , AWS and Azure. Also, Rakesh James is a big fan and enthusiast of Native application development with Flutter / REACT + GraphQL.

Background

He started his career with Drupal in 2009. Since that he lives with Drupal. Rakesh believes that Drupal has the power of making a difference in people’s life from his own experience, and thanking God for Dries and Drupal! So he always volunteered himself for introducing Drupal to new people. His contribution has been recognized and appreciated by Dries the creator of Drupal.[Dries's Note DrupalCon Dublin 2016]

Apart from training people into Drupal, he always has been an integrated part of the Drupal community locally and globally. He volunteered and organized a number of Drupal meetups, Camps and Sprints locally and he speaks more often about various topics from Drupal, PHP, and Web Technology. Volunteered ample of time in Drupal Cons for sprint mentor, registration, prenotes.

He is the creator or author for piles of modules. His rank is 20 in the Top contributor's list, which has been mentioned by Dries in his Blog.

#20 in Top 30 contributors list.(2015-2016)
#28 in Top 30 contributors list.(2016-2017)

#Drupal Core Contribution Ranking.

Blogs:

• Blogs on Ctidigital.com
• Tutorials written by Rakesh James
• Blogs on Blogspot.in

Community & Talks

• Drupal Association Member
• Organiser, volunteer and speaker in Drupal Camp Bangalore 2015
• Volunteer in DrupalCon Asia 2016
• Speaker and Sprint Mentor in DrupalCamp Mumbai 2017
• Speaker at DrupalCon Vienna 2017
• Speaker at Drupal camp London 2018
• Speaker at Drupal camp Scotland 2018
• Mentor and Co-organiser of NWDUG sprint May 2018
• DrupalCon Europe 2019 Track Chair
• DrupalCon Global 2020 Track Chair

Author / Contributor / Maintainer of:

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• Loqate
• Download all files
• Simple Image Popup
• Login Popup
• Broken Link
• Drush Delete All
• Raw Formatter [Meta Tag Formatter]
• Custom Solr Search
• DB Index