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Location Albany, New York
Current Role(s): 
Senior Full Stack Developer
RAPS Consulting Inc

Professional Info

Companies Worked For
Office of Information Technology Services New York State, Capgemini, Cerulean Infotech, Tulsys IT Solutions
Industries Worked In: 
Pharma, Publishing, Non-profit, ECommerce, Logistics, Product development, Manufacturing, Public service

Personal Info

Primary language: 
English
Other languages: 
Hindi
Malayalam

On Drupal.org for 17 years 3 months

Bio: 



Acquia Triple Certified Drupal Expert - Drupal 10



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• Contributed to BDD test automation programming (for Drupal.org) using BEHAT/MINK
• Having experience in designing and developing high performance REST APIs, Microservices, Monolithic
• Having experience in developing applications using MVC PHP frameworks – CakePHP, CodeIgniter
• Having extensive experience in integrating Third Party learning applications and data migration/management - EdCast, SumTotal, LinkedIn Learning, getAbstract, Pluralsight, SkillSoft
• Having extensive experience in integrating AI based personalized search engine - MISO search as well as Apache Solr
• Having extensive experience in designing and developing BDD scripts using BEHAT, PHP, Selenium, Mink
• Having experience in application performance boosting with caching techniques – MemCached and Redis
• Having extensive experience in designing and developing Database queries, Database views, stored functions/procedures and integration with Informatica ETL and reporting tools – Tableau
• Having experience in handling servers using Amazon cloud EC2, Scalr, Docker, Acquia, CI/CD (Jenkins, GIT)
• Having experience in CDN (Cloudfront) with security cookie integration
• Having extensive experience in file management using Amazon S3
• Having experience in integrating social media platforms – Facebook, LinkedIn, Yammer.
• Having experience in designing and developing high performance custom CRON implementation.
• Having extensive experience in working with version control tools/interfaces (GIT, SVN, Github, Gitlab)
• Experience in project tracking management/tools (JIRA, Rally, Smart Sheet, Confluence, Crucible)
• Having experience in working with monitoring tools – New Relic, Kibana
• Having experience in analysing application performance testing and debugging the reports generated by HP LoadRunner
• Having extensive experience in securing and optimizing the application from vulnerabilities by running vulnerability scan reports(Qualys, Checkmarx)
• Having extensive experience in integrating payment Gateways – Paypal, Authorize.net
• Experience in all the phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) entailing requirement analysis, design, estimation, resource loading, project planning, development, implementation, delivery and troubleshooting and experience in maintaining SDLC documentations and reporting.
• Having Strong experience in building solutions and responding to RFP/RFI, presales activities
• Having experience in leading pool of resources including developers, testers, business analysts
• Certified Scrum master (PSM)

Drupal Contributions: 

Worked on the Capgemini-Acquia co-development for the automation of BDD testing - Drupal.org. The test suite the team developed was used in the regression testing during the migration of Drupal.org from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7.

Contributed towards the development of a BEHAT extension for Drupal websites. The extension is currently available in Drupal.org at https://www.drupal.org/project/drupalextension

Worked as a mentor for the Drupal contrib modules: Custom Date Range Picker, LearnerActivities, Nivo Slider Formatter, Select With Search

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I contributed Drupal patches
I contributed Drupal modules
I contributed to Drupal issue queues
I contributed to Drupal.org
I contributed Automated tests
I reviewed Project applications
I help mentor new contributors