Diego Roldan Email & Phone Number

Woodside, New York, Us

As a contractor for PARCE, I have contributed and worked on several Drupal projects including SynCal, FLEXspace, Aavid, World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), Shurtape, Tough Mudder, 321 Launch and a medical research company. All these projects have been built under Drupal 8 and Drupal 7.Baker Hughes: Developed complex Drupal 8 components used for layout builder to give editorial a range of options for displaying content, including view lists. Real-time SEO intetration with Yoast.IAmLife: Managed decoupled Drupal 8 integration backend for social networking site. Integration of commerce contributed module, ecommerce workflow and shipping capabilities. SynCal: Drupal 8 contributed module that provides the ability to synchronize events to third-party calendars such as Google Calendar. It currently supports insert, update and delete operations on calendar events. Module provides the ability for other modules to hook into it to add additional event information.FLEXspace: Architected and developed the backend functionality for the site, including the migration and deployment to production. Supported the backend team and other manage other backend developers during the first and second phase of the project.WWE.com: Integrated multiple A/B tests for interstitial ads on several pages including the homepage with the goal of determining which ad positions were more effective for users to interact with.Aavid.com: Worked on the integration Apache Solr Search module to allow end-users to search for products which had multiple categories. An Ajax faceted filtering feature was also implemented for search.ToughMudder.com: Multi-language setup with the Internationalization (i18n) module and Internationalization Views module. Backend support for multiple media library uploads in order to integrate a responsive design to serve multiple mobile devices.

New York, New York, Us

Filled several development roles including assisting in the platform architecture, development ofcustom modules, integration of contributed modules, supporting and collaborating with a largeteam of backend and frontend developers to migrate A&E’s official website to Drupal 7.Built several custom modules to fulfill a variety of business requirements, such internalnewsletter integration with Drupal thru cURL, Integration with Facebook, Twitter andInstagram’s APIs and integration with an internal Video platform’s migrated content.Introduced the contributed module, Beans, to provide the ability of having Blocks as BlockTypes. Custom modules were built to extend and hook into all Bean instances and addlogic, as well as pass dynamic data to the theme layer. Instances of Beans are managed byEditors and Producers.Responsible for laying out the foundation of the primary theme. Directories, files, mainhooks overrides, image’s directory structures, etc.Assisted the frontend team to implement a fully responsive design oriented site by passingadditional dynamic data thru Drupal settings. Example, passing scheduling information ofEpisodes and Video specific data to be available; which would then change the userexperience based in timezones, mobile devices and browsers.

New York City, Ny, Us

Lead backend developer for high traffic, consumer facing, content-driven NBC News Digital community brands with 30+ million unique visitors per month, and high community contributed message boards, including Astrology.com, iVillage.com, forums.iVillage.com.Lead the backend platform architecture, and database migration of 18 years worth of data (+100 million comments, +20 million nodes and +1 million users), from Lithium to Drupal 7 CMS. Responsible for architecting the backend framework, including the contributed modules to use, custom modules needed to be build. Provided and enforcing PHP and Drupal best practices including DAPI. Integrated a continuous and automated deployment process and scripts based on Drush and custom Bash Scripts to handle our weekly sprint releases. The release scripts act as release instructions, reduces the probability of human error by the quality assurance team, and most importantly it guarantees to run the same release instructions on every integrated environment.Develop and maintain systems composed of a framework based on Kohana for serving front end users, and the content management system, Drupal 6 for providing a REST/Services API for feeding the data to the framework. Developed a caching system for REST services, and the entire system to fully utilize APC, Memcached layer and Varnish to provide end users with the best user experience possible. The cache system acts upon Editorial actions, such saving, updating or deleting nodes.Developing, scaling and maintaining a REST API feeding content to Astrology.com as well as their editorial platform. The REST API is an extension of our primary Services and it fully integrates with the custom built-in cache system.

New York, Ny, Us

Developed and maintained enterprise class websites and applications based on PHP and Drupal. Collaborated closely with the lead backend developer to support and expand on existing Drupal architecture for websites with over 10,000 active users with an average traffic of 50,000 page views per day. Responsible for working closely with clients, project managers, quality assurance team and a team of over 20 developers around the world. Clients included International Data Group (IDG), ITworld.com.Supported and integrated the main ITworld, and ITworld Answers website in the content management system Drupal. Built custom modules for supporting actions, triggers and comprehensive user stats; which were fully integrated to work with Social Network APIs including Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.

New York , Us

Developing modules under CMS Drupal and WordPress Mu for sites such Fox Business Quotes, The Fox Nation and Fox News blogs such Gretawire and Liveshots. These modules were built by using their respective APIs and included functionalities such; allowing users to create RSS/Atom feeds from other feeds with a full integrated drag and drop interface, dynamic Meta tags injection for search engine optimization, and a content processing module with full RAMP technology integration to create content related links.

Queens, Ny, Us

Maintaining interactive Flash applications, including an interactive galleries built with XML support.Manage content for the College’s official site built under content management system (CMS) Microsoft SharePoint.

New York, New York , Us

Developed Flash applications under AS3 that gathered data from user interaction. The application was built under an enterprise-wide environment for hundreds of users.