akshay patel

I’m a results-driven Senior Drupal Developer with 8+ years of IT experience and 5+ years of deep specialization in Drupal 8/9/10 enterprise development. I focus on custom module development, Drupal architecture, and Twig-based theming to deliver production-ready solutions across complex domains like finance, healthcare, and compliance.

In my most recent role, I architected and built an AI chatbot proof of concept integrating Ollama with Drupal, turning internal demos into a core future product initiative. I also served as a technical liaison between stakeholders and engineering, translating complex requirements into scalable solutions and reducing requirement clarification cycles by ~40%.

Previously, I led full SDLC delivery of 8+ Drupal enterprise projects serving 10,000+ end users—owning architecture, custom modules, code review, QA coordination, and production releases. I engineered 30+ advanced Drupal Webforms with multi-step flows and conditional logic, and I resolved 200+ critical production incidents with documented root-cause analysis, reducing repeat incidents by ~35%.

My delivery style is practical and reliability-focused: I build CI/CD pipelines with Git/GitLab, enable zero-downtime deployments, and drive performance improvements using Drupal best practices like caching and build-deploy pipelines. I also mentor junior developers, strengthen code quality through regular reviews, and extend my expertise with emerging work like headless/decoupled Drupal using JSON:API.