Nikhil D. Email & Phone Number

New York, NY, US

• Successfully completed PDF, PPT, Excel report generation project.
• Project on Importing data from Excel file.
• Heavily used Drupal group module https://www.drupal.org/project/group with customizations.
• Migration project from Drupal 7 to Drupal 8 and from Drupal 8 to Drupal 9 & Drupal 9 to Drupal 10.
• Local Drupal development environment using Lando based on Docker.Technologies: Drupal group module, Drupal 10, Drupal 9, Drupal 8, Composer, Drupal 8 Upgrade, rector, Docker, Lando.

• Accomplishments:
• Migration from Drupal 8 to Drupal 9 removing dependency on Acquia Lightning distribution.
• Local Drupal development environment using Docksal based on Docker and Docker Compose. Technologies: Drupal 9, Drupal 8 Upgrade, Docksal, Docker.

• Leading a team of Drupal developers on Drupal 9 support project.Accomplishments:
• Architected platform to migrate from old CMS to new Drupal 8 CMS using Acquia's Lightning distribution.http://lightning.acquia.com/
• Custom Drupal 8 theme based on Bootstrap.
• Prepared ARB document and presented to Architecture Review Board including CTO.
• Maintained gulpfile.js, package.json, composer.json, blt.yml configurations.
• Simplified deployments & testing of deployments using BackstopJS - Visual/CSS regression testing.

Newark, New Jersey

• Leading Drupal development on Prudential BYCP CMS platformAccomplishments:
• Implemented Headless CMS using Acquia's Lightning distribution. http://lightning.acquia.com/
• Implemented groups without Drupal 8 organic groups module.
• Worked with panelizer within groups to give content authors flexibility in creating pages with different responsive layoutsTechnologies: Drupal 8, Acquia's Lightning distribution, Composer, Test Automation, TWIG engine

Greater New York City Area

• Leading Drupal development on Payeezy Developer portal http://developer.payeezy.com/Accomplishments:
• Released PHP SDK for Payeezy API. https://github.com/payeezy/payeezy-php
• Published Payeezy Drupal module for Commerce integration. https://www.drupal.org/project/commerce_payeezy
• Analyzed security audit report & fixed vulnerabilities reported along with XSS issues.
• Improved performance drastically by fixing cache issues that prevented Varnish from caching.Technologies: Drupal, Composer, PHPUnit, PHP CodeSniffer & Beautifier, Travis CI, Doxygen, Github pages

Greater New York City Area

• Leading Drupal development on http://www.uft.org/Accomplishments:
• Improved the Drupal development process with Local environments, drush, Features for deployment...
• Introduced Visual regression testing technique.
• Maintained the site with security updates.

Greater Boston Area

• Leading Drupal development on https://www.edx.org/Accomplishments:
• Improved the Drupal development process with Local environments, drush, GitFlow branching model, Sass, Features for deployment...
• Introduced testing techniques like PHPUnit, Behat for behavioral testing, Visual/CSS regression testing.
• Done A/B testing before coding & implementing a Feature request.
• Improved course discovery & catalog filtering using Apache Solr
• Provided course catalog API as RSS with pagination.

Waltham, MA

• Project Title: HP LIFE e-Learning - http://e-learning.life-global.org/ (Online training for entrepreneurs) Project Description: Creation of a e-Learning site based on Drupal7.Accomplishments:
• Provided feature to capture user feedback & encouraging the user to fill missing profile information, before downloading resources on the site.
• Gave the users ability to invite their friends to the site and get points when the friend registers.
• Added automatic import functionality of News feeds with support for different languages like Spanish, French and Portuguese. Contributed module to community https://drupal.org/project/feeds_tamper_stbl
• Provided site documentation in wiki.Technologies: Drupal (Custom theme, Custom modules, Features for deployment, Translation), MYSQL, PHP, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, gitProject Title: Promote Prevent.
• Built a dynamic system to show related Tools & Resources from Master site on Slave sites. http://3boldsteps.promoteprevent.org/3-bold-steps-action/preventing-bullying

Cambridge, MA

• Project Title: HARVie - http://harvie.harvard.edu/ (intranet for employees) Project Description: Migration from Alfresco to a Drupal7 based site with improved features, more importantly content workflow.Accomplishments:
• Provided ability to inherit or override content based on node hierarchy.
• Gave the employees ability to create online classified ads like Craigslist.
• Provided “Promoted search results” feature (handled by Ultraseek, when Alfresco was used) using simple technique built in Drupal.
• Added Microsite functionality with different layouts, inheriting properties from main theme.
• Eased the content workflow for Site managers using Workbench module.

Okemos, MI

Designed and Developed the Integration module. https://drupal.org/project/camtasia_relayContributed the module to Drupal CommunityUsed XML-RPC for communication between Drupal module and Relay server.Written design document, test plan and user documentation.Technologies: Drupal ( Custom module ), MYSQL, PHP, HTML, JavaScript, CSS

Customized modules and theme template filesExtensively used hooks and written custom modules to meet the requirements.Analyzed performance of the pages using Devel module and YSlow addon in Firefox.Improved performance of the pages by customizing the view queries and separating the main query from pager query.Reduced the page load time from 8 sec to less.

NYC, NY

S.O.B.’s, also known as Sounds of Brazil, is a live music venue in the lower Manhattan neighborhood of SoHo.Project Description: Development of Drupal site to manage events.Accomplishments:Designed and Developed the Theme.Imported WordPress Blog into the Drupal based site.Written Patch to Dynamic display block to meet client’s needs.Managed search engine.

NJ

Vale is New Jersey's first statewide academic library consortium.Project Description: Migration of HTML site to Drupal.Accomplishments:Designed and Converted old HTML design to Drupal Theme.Migrated content into the new site.Themed Search block.Written Patch to Dynamic display block to meet client’s needs.Managed search engine optimization (SEO).

Newark, NJ

NJIT is New Jersey's science and technology university. It has been awarded with Design Competition Excellence Award for Illustration in 2009 by University and College Designers Association (UCDA).Responsibilities:Responsible for the design and development of the new event management system for teachers and students.Written patch to signup module (Drupal).

India

Project Title: Sorokasoft Online Attendance Punching SystemProject Description: A system to record and analyze employee’s attendanceAccomplishments:Efficiently written code in PHP language to fetch and store data into the MYSQL database.Written design document, test plan and user documentation.Supervised a team of 3 developers.Technologies: Linux, Apache.

Home

• DrupalContributed code to Drupal community. Built over a dozen Drupal sites using Fields, Views and many more.
• Birthday Wishes (Facebook app) Developed Facebook application to greet user on his/her birthday and notify his/her friends.Technologies: PHP, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Facebook PHP Client Library
• RADTT (Rapid Application Development and Testing Tools) Built software in VB.NET to generate code from Flowchart for languages like HTML, JAVA and VB.Technologies: VB.NET, Visual Studio 2008, XML
• Submit Links (Firefox Add-on) Developed Firefox Add-on to extract links from current web page and submit to popular websites.Technologies: HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Mozilla Firefox 3.6
• Diet Control – iPhone Application Developed an iPhone application to help users control one's diet. This App suggests user a menu item from popular restaurants like McDonalds, Wendy's and many more. The suggestions are.
• Steganalysis versus splicing detection Worked on an effective Photomontage tool written in JAVA and created a huge dataset of tampered images for New Jersey Institute of Technology. Modified the source code to meet the.

Ms, Electrical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Mentored undergraduate students and assisted them with the problems in their course work.Graduated with a GPA of.

Bs, Electronics And Communication Engineering

Activities and Societies: Presented a project entitled ”PC based Rolling Display”, at Convergence-2K6, a National level Technical.