Varun Baker Email & Phone Number

Washington, Dc, Us

United States

• Spearheaded the development and implementation of a Drupal 10 based distribution for the State of Arizona, resulting in a 61% decrease in support costs.• Conducted requirements gathering sessions to craft expert digital experience design in Drupal by translating client needs into successful project delivery and technical solution support for 170+ state agencies.• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to streamline processes, leading to a 100% reduction of delays in the project delivery timeline.• Implemented a CI/CD pipeline deployment automation from git repositories to Acquia Drupal Cloud and Pantheon hosting environments.• Created Google Analytics Dashboard module to showcase website traffic data to website administrators directly through the Drupal administrative interface.• Migrated 30+ Drupal 7 websites to Drupal 10 within a 3 month time constraint.Created multiple mobile friendly custom designs by extending the SASS based Barrio Bootstrap theme.

Washington D.C.

• Developed and deployed an Open Data Portal for the Governments of Jamaica and St. Lucia based on Drupal 7• Improved functionality and the overall look and feel of Jamaica’s Open Data Portal by upgrading to Drupal 10 and converting the website to utilize a REACT front end• Designed custom APIs to support both mobile applications as well as desktop users.• Utilized Amazon Web-services including VPC, Route 53, RDS, EC2, ECS/EKS Container, S3, CloudWatch, Cloud front, Snowflake to architect end-to-end solutions for clients.• Leveraged business intelligence tools including extraction, transforming, and loading to process large sets of data including financial data and writing APIs for data communication.• Integrated version control systems with GitHub and managing website deployment usingDrush.• Authored automation scripts to provide test results and analysis after both load and security testing to ensure high performance and responsiveness of frontend applications.

Kingston, Jamaica

Mentoring participants for the Drupal project in Google Summer of Code and Google Code-In since 2014. Organizing mentors and conducting meetings amongst organizers. Creating Drupal specific tasks and reviewed student submissions.

Kingston, Jamaica

The SlashRoots Foundation designs digital services and tools to transform the relationship between Caribbean governments and citizens. We help governments and other social impact organizations achieve their missions and empower communities by better using technology and data.At SlashRoots I designed and developed an Agricultural API(Application Programming Interface) together with the Rural Agricultural Development Agency(RADA) at the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture & Fisheries. This API provides a simple way for software applications to access and utilize data from two multiple databases that sit within the Ministry.I also designed and launched an innovation fellowship initiative that seeks to make Caribbean governments more open, participatory and agile. The fellowship embeds teams of technologists within government agencies to drive a more open, participatory and agile approach to designing and delivering public services.

Kingston, Jamaica

Within the course of 6 months, a viable product was designed and developed to combat praedial larceny in Jamaica through the use of mobile technology. Varun lead the software development team through the process of learning from and designing for stakeholders in the agricultural sector. The design process lead the team to many features that are unique to the context of the developing world. Limited internet connectivity and the proliferation of cellular phones in Jamaica lead to software architecture that uses SMS messages to query and report from a custom built API.The main resources in this case came through strategic partnerships with government entities who want to be more open and participatory and don't mind thinking hard about what public service delivery can look like. These were innovative teams within entities such as the Rural Agricultural Development Agency(RADA) and the Agricultural Marketing Information Division (AMID) at The Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Agriculture (MICAF). In addition the Jamaica Agricultural Society, Jamaica Constabulary Force and the Mona School of Business at the University of the West Indies played major roles in facilitating this work.By addressing issues such asIn rural Jamaica, SMS is a common means of communication so that an SMS based application

Placement in Jamaica as ICT advisor to the Dispute Resolution Foundation. Database developer for National Volunteer Centre.

Ottawa, Canada Area

Worked directly with clients on Drupal CMS development and theming. Implemented W3C and WCAG 2.0 compliant multilingual and multidirectional Drupal themes. Reviewed, documented and improved business workflows based on requirements documentation and client interaction.

Worked on GPS tracking and navigation solutions. Helped to develop Electoral Information Management System for Electoral Office of Jamaica.