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About me

I dreamt of being a developer since I was in 6th grade and I feel lucky to have a profession in same field as my passion.

My current assignment is an E-Commerce Site Factory project where Drupal is used as web frontend + CMS. We are building and maintaining a factory of multiple sites (brands + markets) with multiple features, some applicable or used on specific brand and/or markets. We use React and JavaScript to bypass Drupal for transactional part and keep the CMS stable even when under tremendous load.

I Started my career with one of the biggest Drupal projects in India in 2010 - XIX Common Wealth Games 2010, which was in Drupal 6 and was required to be supporting IE6 and accessibility at the time. I was fortunate to be one of the few to work onsite and provide support during the event where it was not just about the frontend and backend but also security of the sites and I was still on probation in my first job ?

Even in college, I was fortunate to be part of a project under the university development centre for Dudhsagar dairy which was quoted to be worth 2 crore Indian Rupees in 2009.

Personality Traits:
•    I love to commit myself 110% to anything I do
•    I learn best when I am doing it, not much of book lover
•    I am good in analysis and fixing bugs quickly

Key Certifications (details can be found here):
•    Acquia Triple Certified Drupal Expert
•    Certified Scrum Master from Scrum Alliance
•    Multiple Cloud related certifications from Acquia

I live with my mom, wife and 2 lovely kids in Pune. I like to spend time with my extended family and friends. I am emotional and even short tempered at times. I do not believe in rules that hinder innovation but otherwise I like to follow all the rules and make sure I do not create any problem for anyone around me.


Recently while watching one of the episodes of Boston Legal about IQ level, I got curious and found out I am one of the gifted people with IQ of 135 ?

Behat tests with Lando and Apple M1
Knowledge required as PHP developer
Drupal - Tips to keep browser CPU usage in check
Thinking about customer success as a developer
Developing or testing Apple Pay
Being pro-active as developer
Effective communication, how I do it
Migrating multi-value non-associative data
Drupal 8: Reverting features in update hooks
Drupal 8: Updating field configuration in update hooks
Life saver - live dev on Magento Cloud
Certified SAFe® 6 Agilist Badge
BMI IQ - 135
Acquia Certified Cloud Pro 2020
Acquia Certified Front End Specialist - Drupal 9
Triple Certified Drupal Expert - Drupal 9
Acquia Certified Developer - Drupal 9
Acquia Certified Site Studio 6 Site Builder
Acquia Certified Back End Specialist - Drupal 9
Acquia Certified Site Factory Pro
Acquia Certified Developer - Drupal 8
Acquia Certified Developer - Drupal 7
Certified ScrumMaster®
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