NITIN SHRIVASTAVA

Drupal Frontend Developer & Software Engineer

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SUMMARY

I am a Software Developer with 4 years of experience in Frontend Technologies and Drupal development. Skilled in building responsive, scalable, and user-centric web and mobile applications using Drupal and React Native. Strong focus on performance optimization, load time improvement, and accessibility (WCAG compliance). Experienced in writing clean, maintainable code and delivering high-quality solutions within deadlines.

EXPERIENCE

08/2025 - Present

New Delhi, India

Software Engineer

Axelerant

  • Leading Multiple Projects across diverse technology stacks, ensuring smooth execution and timely delivery.
  • Managing Client Communications, gathering requirements, providing regular updates, and translating technical concepts into clear insights.
  • Overseeing Project Architecture, code quality, and maintainability for new and legacy systems across different platforms.
  • Evaluating and Implementing New Technologies and frameworks to enhance team efficiency and project outcomes.
  • Coordinating Cross-Functional Teams, fostering collaboration, and ensuring alignment with business goals.
  • Providing Technical Guidance on complex issues, resolving blockers, and supporting teams in delivering high-quality solutions.
  • Driving Knowledge Sharing Sessions, introducing industry best practices, and keeping teams updated on emerging trends.
04/2022 - 08/2025

New Delhi, India

Software Developer

OpenSense Labs

  • Leading an agile team of frontend developers, responsible for training, and performance management.
  • Mentoring junior developers, leading sprint cycles, code reviews, and full project lifecycles.
  • Conducted Code Reviews for junior and peer developers, ensuring high-quality, maintainable code and adherence to development standards.
  • Recommended and Implemented Better Technology Alternatives, evaluating and introducing new frameworks and tools to improve project efficiency and overall development quality.
  • Played a key role in fostering a collaborative development environment, helping the team stay updated on the latest trends and industry best practices.
  • Resolved queries and provided technical support to junior developers, ensuring timely and effective solutions to their challenges.

EDUCATION

2019 - 2022

Bachelor of Vocational ( Software Development )

Ambedkar Institute Of Technology

SKILLS

HTML CSS SCSS JAVASCRIPT JQUERY BOOTSTRAP TAILWIND REACT.JS NEXT.JS REACT NATIVE ANGULAR FIGMA RESPONSIVE DESIGN DRUPAL 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 DRUPAL SITE STUDIO DRUPAL SITE BUILDING PATTERN LAB SDC / ATOMIC DESIGN TWIG TWIG SYMFONY GIT(VCS) JIRA DOCKER LANDO CHAKRA UI ANT DESIGN CLAUDE CURSOR CHATGPT

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS

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Team Player

I single-handedly delivered both the frontend and backend of the 'Carbon Check' project, contributing to its seamless execution. Awarded 'Team Player of the Project' for outstanding collaboration and dedication to project success.

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The Budding Star

Honored with "The Budding Star" award for outstanding contributions over the past year, recognizing my growth, dedication, and continuous learning throughout the journey.

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Top Contributor and Theme Maintainer

Contributed to Drupal, helping OpenSense Labs achieve Diamond Certified Partner status, while also maintaining themes such as Mediterranean and Health Heaven.

PROJECTS

Spectrum

location_on New Delhi, India

Lead Developer

  • Full-Stack Drupal Development: Led both frontend theming and backend module development using Drupal, building custom content types, views, blocks, and REST APIs to power a fully functional multilingual site.
  • SDC-Based Component Architecture: Adopted Drupal's modern Single Directory Components (SDC) framework to build a fully component-based frontend, co-locating Twig templates, CSS, and JavaScript per component — enabling clean separation of concerns and seamless integration between frontend and backend layers.
  • Custom Theme & Design System: Built a custom Drupal theme using Pattern UI and an atomic design system with SDC, ensuring consistent, reusable UI components across the multilingual platform.
  • Performance Optimization: Improved Lighthouse performance scores by 90%+ through lazy loading, CSS/JS aggregation, and Drupal caching (BigPipe, Dynamic Page Cache), reducing page load time significantly.
  • Accessibility for Disabled Users (WCAG 2.1 AA): Audited and remediated accessibility issues using Pa11y, Axe, and Lighthouse Accessibility, ensuring full compliance for users with visual, motor, and cognitive disabilities.
  • Light/Dark Mode & Dynamic Map: Implemented theme switching and custom JavaScript map displaying project locations across multiple countries, improving user interaction and content visualization.
  • Code Reviews & Mentoring: Conducted regular code reviews for junior developers, enforcing best practices, Drupal coding standards, and maintainability across the project.

Washington DC

location_on New Delhi, India

Software Engineer | Drupal Full-Stack Developer

  • Full-Stack Drupal Engineering: Developed custom Drupal modules (backend) and a Pattern UI/Storybook-based theme (frontend), handling content workflows, REST APIs, and responsive UI in a unified delivery.
  • Performance Optimization — 40% Faster Load Times: Implemented advanced caching strategies (Internal Page Cache, Dynamic Page Cache), CSS/JS aggregation, and image optimization, reducing page load times by 40% and improving GTmetrix performance scores to 90+.
  • Accessibility Compliance (WCAG 2.1 AA): Conducted full accessibility audits using Pa11y CI, Axe DevTools, and Lighthouse, fixing 100+ issues related to keyboard navigation, ARIA roles, color contrast, and screen reader compatibility for disabled users.
  • Custom Search Module: Engineered a backend search module that indexed site-wide content, improving content discoverability and boosting user engagement by 30%.
  • React App as Drupal Block: Built and embedded a standalone React application as a custom Drupal block, rendering interactive UI components within the Drupal page layout while consuming data via JSON:API for seamless backend integration.
  • Storybook + Layout Builder — Component-Driven Page Building: Developed each UI element as an isolated, reusable component in Storybook, then surfaced those components as individual Drupal blocks within Layout Builder — giving content editors the flexibility to drag, drop, and compose entire pages independently, with dynamic content rendered per block without any developer involvement.
  • Fully Responsive Layout: Designed and built a mobile-first responsive layout, improving mobile user retention by 20% across all device breakpoints.
  • Code Reviews & Mentoring: Led code reviews for junior developers, ensuring adherence to Drupal standards, clean code practices, and timely, high-quality delivery.

Visit Fort Myers

location_on New Delhi, India

Software Engineer | Drupal Full-Stack Developer

  • Drupal Multisite with Pattern Lab: Rebuilt "Visit Fort Myers" as a Drupal multisite on Drupal 9, managing multiple sites under a single codebase — each with its own distinct theme, design, and block system developed using Pattern Lab for a fully component-driven, atomic frontend architecture.
  • Storybook + Layout Builder — Block-Based Page Composition: Isolated each UI component in Storybook and exposed them as individual Drupal blocks within Layout Builder, giving content editors the flexibility to compose and manage pages with dynamic content independently — without developer involvement.
  • React Weather Prediction App (Embedded Drupal Block): Built a standalone React application for a weather prediction feature and embedded it as a custom Drupal block, consuming external weather APIs and rendering interactive forecasts dynamically within the Drupal page layout.
  • Accessibility with accessiBe (WCAG 2.1 AA): Integrated accessiBe for AI-powered accessibility compliance, supplemented by manual Pa11y and Axe audits, ensuring the site is fully usable by people with visual, motor, and cognitive disabilities.
  • Performance Optimization: Implemented Drupal caching strategies (BigPipe, Internal Page Cache), image optimization, and lazy loading, achieving a 30%+ improvement in Lighthouse performance scores across all multisite instances.
  • Custom Backend Modules & API Integration: Built custom Drupal modules to pull and display external API data dynamically, with custom Views and Blocks for flexible content presentation across sections.
  • Code Reviews & Mentoring: Performed code reviews for junior developers across the multisite project, ensuring consistent code quality, Drupal best practices, and on-time delivery.

San Jose

location_on New Delhi, India

Software Engineer | Drupal Developer

  • Full-Stack Drupal Development: Built the San Jose city website on Drupal 9, developing backend custom modules, content types, and views alongside a fully responsive, mobile-first frontend theme.
  • Performance Optimization: Applied CSS/JS aggregation, Drupal caching, and image optimization techniques, improving site performance scores by 25%+ and ensuring fast page delivery across all devices.
  • Accessibility Compliance (WCAG 2.1): Used Pa11y and Lighthouse Accessibility audits to identify and fix keyboard navigation, screen reader, and color contrast issues, making the site accessible to users with disabilities.
  • API-Driven Dynamic Content: Built custom backend modules integrating third-party APIs to dynamically display events and restaurant data with real-time content updates.
  • Maintenance & Scalability: Managed ongoing site performance, security patches, and Drupal core/module updates, ensuring long-term stability and scalability.

Inspirational Cruise

location_on New Delhi, India

Lead Drupal Full-Stack Developer

  • Full-Stack Drupal Platform: Led backend and frontend development of a large-scale cruise booking platform using Drupal — building custom modules, REST APIs, content workflows, and a Pattern Lab-based component-driven theme with reusable Twig blocks.
  • Layout Builder — Fully Dynamic Block System: Architected the entire site around Drupal Layout Builder, where every page element is a dynamic, configurable block — giving content editors complete control to build and modify pages independently with live content.
  • User-Managed Design System per Event Page: Built a custom per-page design configuration system for event pages, allowing users to manage color schemes, typography, and layout styles directly within the CMS — making each event page visually unique without developer involvement.
  • Animated Components: Implemented custom CSS and JavaScript animations across key UI components — including scroll-triggered transitions, hero animations, and interactive card effects — enhancing visual engagement and user experience throughout the platform.
  • Email Templating System: Developed dynamic, branded email templates integrated with Drupal's mail system, supporting transactional emails (booking confirmations, reminders, notifications) with responsive HTML layouts.
  • PDF Generation: Implemented server-side PDF creation for booking summaries and itineraries, generating dynamic, styled PDF documents from Drupal content using custom module integration.
  • Performance Optimization: Achieved Lighthouse scores of 85+ through Drupal BigPipe, Internal Page Cache, CSS/JS aggregation, lazy loading, and optimized asset delivery — reducing page load times by 35%.
  • Accessibility (WCAG 2.1 AA): Ran Pa11y CI and Axe audits, remediating ARIA violations, focus management, skip-navigation links, and color contrast issues — ensuring full usability for screen reader and keyboard-only users.
  • Code Reviews & Mentoring: Led code reviews, enforced Drupal coding standards, and mentored junior developers to maintain high code quality throughout the project lifecycle.

Drupal Fit

location_on New Delhi, India

JavaScript / Next.js Developer

  • SaaS Product Development (Next.js): Owned the complete frontend lifecycle of a paid SaaS fitness platform built on Next.js — from architecture and UI design to routing, API integration, subscription flows, and production deployment.
  • Subscription & Payment Integration: Integrated third-party payment and subscription management APIs, enabling tiered paid plans, billing cycles, and secure checkout flows for end users.
  • Multi-Tenant User Dashboard: Built a role-based, multi-tenant dashboard for admins and subscribers — each with personalized views, data, and feature access based on subscription tier and user role.
  • Performance Optimization (Core Web Vitals): Improved LCP, CLS, and using Next.js SSR/SSG, code splitting, image optimization, and lazy loading — achieving measurably faster load times and improved SEO rankings.
  • Accessibility Audits (Pa11y, Lighthouse, SEMrush): Conducted automated WCAG 2.1 audits using Pa11y, Lighthouse, and SEMrush, resolving violations to ensure the platform is inclusive for users with disabilities.
  • Authentication & Role-Based Access Control: Implemented JWT-based authentication and optimized Next.js dynamic routing, ensuring secure, personalized access for all user types.
  • Reusable Component Library: Built a scalable, modular component library in React/Next.js, ensuring UI consistency across all product pages and reducing development time for new features.
  • Ongoing Support & Maintenance: Provided continuous feature enhancements, bug fixes, and performance monitoring post-launch, maintaining high platform reliability and user satisfaction.

Carbon Check

location_on New Delhi, India

Drupal Full-Stack Developer

  • Full-Stack Drupal Delivery: Single-handedly delivered both backend (custom modules, content architecture, REST APIs) and frontend (custom theme, Twig templates, responsive CSS) for the Carbon Check Drupal 9 platform.
  • Performance Optimization — 40% Load Time Reduction: Applied Drupal caching (Varnish, Cache API), image CDN optimization, and asset minification, reducing page load times by 40% across all devices.
  • Accessibility Compliance (WCAG 2.1 AA): Used Pa11y CI and Axe DevTools to audit the site, remediating 80+ accessibility issues including ARIA attributes, focus order, and color contrast — improving usability for visually impaired and motor-disabled users.
  • Dynamic CSV-Powered Map: Built a custom JavaScript map feature displaying project carbon footprint locations sourced from CSV data, with real-time rendering and seamless integration with Drupal content.
  • Fully Responsive Design: Delivered a cross-device responsive layout ensuring consistent experience across mobile, tablet, and desktop.

NIL Web App

location_on New Delhi, India

Frontend Developer (Next.js / TypeScript)

  • Frontend Architecture & Development: Built the complete Next.js + TypeScript frontend for the NIL athlete management platform, implementing responsive UI, dynamic routing, and reusable component architecture.
  • Performance Optimization: Leveraged Next.js SSR and image optimization to achieve fast load times and smooth cross-device navigation, measurably improving Core Web Vitals scores.
  • Accessibility (WCAG 2.1): Implemented accessible UI patterns — semantic HTML, ARIA labels, keyboard navigation support — validated with Lighthouse and Pa11y to ensure the app is usable by athletes with disabilities.
  • Zoho API Integration: Integrated Zoho CRM APIs for real-time data sync, automated workflows, and athlete management features.
  • Authentication & Authorization: Built secure role-based login flows with JWT, ensuring data privacy for athletes and administrators.

Jacob Delafon

location_on New Delhi, India

Full-Stack Developer (Next.js + Drupal)

  • Full-Stack Next.js + Drupal Development: Led end-to-end development integrating a Next.js frontend with a Drupal backend via JSON:API, handling both content architecture and UI delivery for a high-traffic e-commerce brand website.
  • Performance Optimization: Applied image optimization, Next.js code splitting, caching headers, and Drupal reverse proxy caching, achieving measurable improvements in page load speed and Core Web Vitals (LCP, CLS).
  • Accessibility Compliance (WCAG 2.1 AA): Conducted Pa11y and Axe audits, addressing focus management, ARIA landmark structure, and screen reader compatibility to ensure the site meets accessibility standards for disabled users.
  • Middleware & Environment Security: Developed Next.js middleware to secure staging and production environments, protecting sensitive data and streamlining deployment workflows.
  • Ongoing Maintenance & Code Quality: Performed monthly performance checks, Drupal/Node.js dependency updates, code reviews, and team mentoring — ensuring clean, maintainable code and high site reliability.