Lars K. - Lead Drupal Developer

Hamburg, Germany

Experience

Aug 2021 - Present

4 years 5 months

Lead Drupal Developer

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Lead Drupal 10 developer for several greenfield projects in the health sector
Drupal architecture in a cloud environment
Setup and maintenance of Gitlab pipelines and Kustomize scripts for Kubernetes deployments
Development of Docker images
Drupal custom module development for clients such as OAuth and FHIR
Drupal frontend theming based on Bootstrap 5 and Single Directory Components
Setup and maintenance of automated Playwright tests

Sep 2020 - Sep 2021

1 year 1 month

Senior Drupal Developer

Fresenius Netcare

Drupal 8 technical lead and Drupal development for FNC's global web portal portfolio in an Azure cloud infrastructure
Maintenance and development of Laravel / VueJS applications
Preparations to migrate 20+ Drupal sites to Acquia's Site Factory
Release setup and management on the Kubernetes cluster
Maintenance of release pipelines in Bamboo
Setup of an automated tests framework using Cypress
Integration of the in-house Active Directory Service via LDAP
Development of a social networking area based on the Group module as well as a Deploy/Workspace/Replication/Relaxed Web Services/Multiversion/JSON:API modules showcase for multisite publishing
Preparations for the Drupal 9 upgrade
Maintenance and development on the Particle front end theme (based on Pattern Lab)

Sep 2018 - Aug 2020

2 years

Senior Software Engineer

Finanzcheck.de

Maintenance of Symfony 3/MySQL/MongoDB and Node applications hosted on AWS with a Travis CI/Spinnaker deployment pipeline and stacks managed by Terraform
Maintain application interactions with AWS SNS and SQS messaging services
Development of React components
Migration of systems hosted on AWS OpsWorks stacks to Docker images hosted on AWS EKS Kubernetes
Liaise with freelancers
Prototyping in Golang and Python
Lead a review of the legacy systems architecture and drafted an upgrade path suggesting an event-driven microservices architecture along the lines of DDD

Oct 2017 - Sep 2018

1 year

Symfony Developer

Oldenburgische Landesbank AG

Symfony 3.4 development of an XML web service endpoint for intranet applications
Integration of several SOAP and REST clients
Performance optimisation of a Zend server architecture

Apr 2017 - Sep 2017

6 months

Drupal Developer and DevOps Engineer

Gesellschaft für Anlagen- und Reaktorsicherheit gGmbH

Drupal 8 development, DevOps, maintenance and support for public websites
Introduction of Ansible-based release and provisioning playbooks
Monitoring system upgrade to Icinga 2
Bootstrap 3 and Twig cross-browser development supported by Gulp build scripts

Feb 2017 - Apr 2017

3 months

Drupal Developer

UCL

Drupal 7 and jQuery development for a range of websites
Web services client development for several feeds and Funnelback endpoints

Oct 2016 - Dec 2016

3 months

Drupal Developer

Cancer Research UK

Drupal 7 and Symfony 2 development for an online fundraising platform based on a Symfony 2 microservices architecture connected to a Drupal 7 frontend

Jan 2016 - Oct 2016

10 months

Senior Drupal Developer

PwC UK

Drupal 7 platform development for UK public service clients
Development of a deployment infrastructure using Drupal Features, drush, Jenkins, bash scripts, VirtualBox, Vagrant and Docker
Maintenance of the Behat test framework

Sep 2015 - Dec 2015

4 months

Drupal Developer

Unipro Ltd

Drupal 7 development for a high street retail client
Contributed to the development of a global e-commerce site based on Drupal Commerce

Apr 2015 - Aug 2015

5 months

Senior Drupal Developer

Condé Nast Verlag

Drupal 7 development for the German edition of Wired Magazine
Identified areas for improvement and scheduled developments with stakeholders
Focused on code review according to best practices, performance optimisation and mentoring junior team members

Mar 2015 - Apr 2015

2 months

Drupal Developer

Unipro Ltd

Drupal 7 development for a pharmaceutical industry client
Developed custom plugins for the Panels module and a custom product entity using the Entity API

Jul 2014 - Dec 2014

6 months

Drupal Developer

10 Minutes With

Drupal 7 development for a startup social network for university students
Migrated parts of functionality to Node.js and implemented heavy caching with Varnish ESI
Developed the Questions & Answers section

Jan 2014 - Jul 2014

7 months

Drupal Developer

BMJ

Led the Drupal 7 relaunch project including auditing and fixing migrated code
Coordinated migration and development tasks with external teams
Restored lost features and maintained the Behat test framework
Successfully launched the new site on June 30th

Jun 2013 - Nov 2013

6 months

Senior Drupal Developer

Burda Intermedia Publishing GmbH

Technical lead for web relaunch of bunte.de using Drupal 7
Implemented ESI caching on Varnish and a Maestro workflow backend

Jun 2012 - Apr 2013

11 months

Drupal Consultant

United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

Developed the Common Request Format reporting tool using Drupal 7
Utilised install profiles, drush make, Features server and localization server
Modeled administration workflows using the Workbench suite

Dec 2011 - Jun 2012

7 months

Drupal Developer

mobilcom Debitel Group

Drupal 7 relaunch of an internal B2B platform
Developed web services integration and data migration scripts
Implemented a group-based content access model with EntityFieldQuery, Relation module and custom taxonomy access control

Nov 2011 - Feb 2012

4 months

Drupal Developer

SAP

Drupal 7 relaunch of an ABAP/BSP intranet site
Integrated data and taxonomy via SOAP web services, Apache Solr search and LDAP SSO

Jun 2011 - Sep 2011

4 months

Senior Drupal Developer

VelocIT

Drupal 7 project to relaunch the AAT's website
Integrated legacy systems via web services
Hosted on Acquia Cloud

Mar 2011 - May 2011

3 months

Drupal Developer

luuux.com

Drupal 5 development and maintenance for a social networking platform
Developed userpoints and Ubercart-based product features

Dec 2010 - Feb 2011

3 months

Drupal Developer

British Film Institute

Drupal 7 relaunch with integration of offline assets via web services and custom stream wrappers
Implemented Search API with Apache Solr backend, Entity API and file stream wrappers

Apr 2010 - Sep 2010

6 months

Drupal Consultant

Everlution Software

Technical lead for relaunch of everywoman.com using Drupal 7
Implemented Organic Groups, ApacheSolr faceted search and Ubercart e-commerce
Liaised with clients and recruited contractors

Mar 2010 - Sep 2010

7 months

Interim Head of Drupal Development

Taglab

Oversaw migration to a Drupal-friendly infrastructure
Involved in architecture, development and maintenance of client websites

Jun 2009 - Feb 2010

9 months

Tech Lead

Digital People Online

Led architecture, development and maintenance of custom document management solutions on Drupal
Integrated Drupal Faceted Search with Google Search Appliance
Contributed code to the Drupal community

Dec 2008 - Apr 2009

5 months

Drupal Developer

IPC Media

Technical lead for Drupal 6 implementation of InStyle site
Implemented a sophisticated design using Panels, Views and CCK
Established a dbscripts-inspired deployment solution

Apr 2008 - Oct 2008

7 months

Senior Drupal Developer

Capita

Led the setup of site architecture and a small team for a government education portal
Extended Organic Groups and other modules
Used PHP, jQuery, MySQL, Linux, SVN, Apache Lucene and Apache

May 2007 - Apr 2008

1 year

Drupal Developer

Teachers TV

Backend development for a major social networking application
Technologies used: PHP, jQuery, MySQL, Linux, SVN, Apache

Feb 2007 - Apr 2007

3 months

PHP Developer

IPC Media

Object-oriented PHP5 development using Symfony framework
Application design and XML/XSLT coding

Dec 2006 - Jan 2007

2 months

Senior Web Developer

Arc Worldwide

Backend setup for a climate change microsite using Drupal 4.7 on Windows
Developed AJAX-driven user interfaces

Aug 2005 - Dec 2006

1 year 5 months

Internal Systems Developer

Information Risk Management

Developed LAMP client management system and coordinated migration to C#.NET/SharePoint/MS SQL
Developed a PDF transformation service in C#.NET

Aug 2004 - Jul 2005

1 year

Technical Web Master

Verlag Dashoefer

Coordinated migration from Perl5/ASP to PHP4/PostgreSQL
Customized a PHP-based CMS and administered Linux and Windows servers

Aug 2002 - Jul 2004

2 years

Web Developer (Operations)

Nature Publishing Group

Operations management and development of database-driven web applications
Extended a Perl-based CMS transforming XML/SGML into HTML and PDF

Feb 2002 - Jul 2002

6 months

Technical Support Consultant

SealedMedia Ltd

Provided worldwide support for a web-based DRM application
Developed a support tracking tool in ColdFusion

Mar 2000 - Mar 2002

2 years 1 month

Technical Support Consultant

Pervasive Software

Supported Tango web platform and Pervasive.SQL across multiple operating systems
Gained proficiency in database and system administration
Developed and maintained intranet sites and a sales tracking tool

Jan 1999 - Feb 2000

1 year 2 months

Technical Support Agent

IBM Ireland Ltd

Technical support for IBM Global Networks ISP, Aptiva PCs and ThinkPad laptops
Trained in OS basics, hardware and applications
Supported an HTML-based homepage creator tool

Summary

Drupal and Symfony expert with more than 15 years web application development experience. Technically lead several enterprise docker projects both in the UK and in Germany. Regularly contributes single directory components to the Drupal community ([link] Proven track record of delivering complex projects on time using best practice coding standards and Agile methodologies.