Senior CMS Architect & Full-Stack Engineer with 15+ years designing and shipping enterprise web platforms — Drupal, WordPress, Joomla, and Shopify — from custom module development and API integrations to the performance tuning and DevOps that keep them running. Currently leading development at Knectar, working remote with teams across the US and EU.
I'm a Senior CMS Architect and Full-Stack Engineer based in Lahore, Pakistan, with 15+ years architecting enterprise web platforms — most deeply in Drupal (v7–11), alongside hands-on work in WordPress, Joomla, and Shopify.
My day-to-day spans custom module and plugin development, REST/GraphQL API integrations, and the DevOps that ships it all — CI/CD pipelines across Pantheon, Acquia, and AWS. On the performance side, I lean on Redis, Varnish, and Apache Solr to keep large platforms fast under real traffic.
I've led complex, zero-downtime migrations (Drupal 7/9 → 10/11), and I've stayed with clients for years rather than projects — 4+ years at Knectar, 4 years at April & June — because long-term architecture decisions need someone who's still around to own the consequences.
Beyond the code, I've led development teams as a Technical Team Lead and CTO, so I'm as comfortable setting technical direction and mentoring developers as I am debugging a production issue at 2am.
Architecture, migrations, and custom builds across Drupal (v7–11), WordPress, and Joomla — the right platform for the business, built to last.
Shopify storefront builds, PageSpeed and Core Web Vitals tuning, and marketing-pixel integrations (Meta, Klaviyo) that keep tracking data accurate.
End-to-end builds across PHP, Laravel, Symfony, Node.js, and React, wired together with REST and GraphQL APIs.
CI/CD pipelines across Pantheon, Acquia, and AWS — built with Composer and Drush — that have cut deployment time in half.
AI-assisted development workflows using Claude and GitHub Copilot to speed up builds, plus AI-supported code reviews that catch issues before they ship.
Understand the real requirement, audit what exists, and design the platform architecture before writing a line of code.
Custom modules, themes, and APIs — built incrementally, with the frontend and backend developed in tandem.
Caching, query tuning, and security hardening before launch — not as an afterthought once things are already slow.
Zero-downtime deployment, CI/CD handoff, and ongoing support — I stay attached to what I build.
Designed and shipped a custom Drupal module syncing client data with a CRM automatically, cutting manual data-entry effort by 40%.
Led multiple large-scale migrations from Drupal 7 and 9, preserving full data integrity with zero downtime for live production sites.
Fixed hero-image LCP and deferred third-party scripts to improve PageSpeed, then traced a Meta catalog ads match-rate issue to an orphaned server-side tracking pixel.
Smoke-tested a DDEV-based Drupal 10 platform with Playwright, debugging across PHP module logic, path aliases, and redirect conflicts.
Led the integration of advanced Apache Solr search, significantly improving content discoverability and user engagement.
Owned Drupal setup, community and custom modules, theming, and Acquia Cloud management — plus on-page optimization and SEO support.
Custom module and theme development paired with performance tuning and security management, delivered through close client collaboration.
Engineered RESTful APIs and shipped Cordova/Ionic hybrid mobile apps alongside Drupal 8 builds, achieving 99.5% uptime.
Architect and lead technical initiatives from concept to deployment — custom modules, API integrations, large-scale D10/11 migrations, and CI/CD across Pantheon, Acquia, and AWS.
Led platform redesigns and custom feature builds, including the Apache Solr search integration. Delivered the Drupal redesign for flexential.com — restructure, custom development, and migration.
Led multiple Drupal projects, including pfh.de and bioinfo, while maintaining strong collaborative relationships with design and client teams.
Built multiple sites across Drupal, Joomla, and WordPress while managing a team of five developers, from scratch through to live support.
Managed a team of 10 developers and QA on a Node.js front-end / Laravel back-end platform, through launch and post-launch support.
Owned front-end and back-end resourcing, application architecture, and project estimation, mentoring developers across Drupal, Joomla, and WordPress builds.
Built and deployed production software on Drupal and Magento — the early foundation for a 15+ year career across CMS and full-stack platforms.
Official Acquia certification verifying advanced Drupal 11 development expertise. View certification →
Bahauddin Zakariya University — a theoretical grounding in system design, algorithms, and large-scale database architecture that still shapes how I approach every build.
Comfortable designing both headless and traditional architectures, and equally at home leading the team that builds them.
Based in Lahore, Pakistan, and set up for effective remote collaboration with teams across the US and EU.
Open to remote and hybrid leadership roles — CMS architecture, eCommerce, full-stack builds, and everything in between.