10/10/2026 updated
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Senior Drupal Developer and Tech Lead
Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barceolna, Spain
Only remote
Bachelor's Degree in Business AdministrationAbout me
Software engineer and tech leader with 30+ years of experience, Drupal specialist, builder of Egypt's first e-commerce site, mentor and open source advocate.
AI AgentsTailwind CSSViteFlutterJavaScriptPHPUbuntu (Operating System)Mobile Application DevelopmentWeb DevelopmentDrupalGitHubGoogle AnalyticsPostgreSQLMariaDBMySQL
- Drupal 6 to 11, Site Building, Theming, Custom Module Development, Deployment
- Drush, DDEV, Lando
- Headless Drupal, JSON:API
- Drupal migrations between different major version upgrades
- PHP 8, Composer, Symfony, Laravel
- REST APIs, JSON
- MySQL, MongoDB, Firestore, Firebase Realtime Database
- JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Node.js, Express
- HTML5, CSS, SASS, Bootstrap, MUI, Foundation, Tailwind
- Flutter, Dart
- Firebase, Google Cloud Platform
- Apache Solr, Varnish, Memcache, Redis (within Drupal context)
- Git, GitHub, GitLab
- Pantheon, Acquia Cloud, Platform.sh (Upsun)
- Docker, CI/CD, Nginx, Apache Web Server, Ubuntu Server
- Jira, Trello, Slack, Airtable
- Agile methodologies, Scrum
Experience
Professional experience10+ years
Freelancer since2007
Languages
ArabicNative speakerEnglishFluent
Project history
Worked with a global team to add publishing features to Checkdesk, a news fact-checking system built on Drupal 7. Built the Al Manassa news website from scratch using Drupal 9 with a complex publishing workflow. Migrated from Drupal 7 to Drupal 9 and later Drupal 11, created custom modules for Firebase authentication integration, exposed content features via JSON:API, converted website design to a Drupal theme using Foundation, and managed hosting and security.
Promoted from Senior Drupal Architect to CTO. Centralized global IT engineering into three specialized operational units. Increased team velocity by 40-60% using AI tooling. Led AI-assisted database optimization reducing AWS RDS capacity by 65% and cutting AWS costs by 45%. Modernized to Drupal 11 with API integration layer and GDPR-compliant cloud file storage. Transitioned to No-Code MES (Tulip) and Odoo ERP. Led HIPAA-compliant API integration and authored a GDPR/EU MDR/NIS2 roadmap.
Adopted Flutter to build a cross-platform mobile app for Android and iOS. Implemented a full Firebase backend. Designed the entire architecture on Google Cloud Platform using microservices on Cloud Run, pub/sub messaging, and third-party API integrations. Designed CI/CD using GitLab. Managed and mentored a team of four back-end developers and worked with insurance underwriters to integrate their systems.