GitHub & Triple Acquia Certified Expert

Hello, I'm Salman Haider

Drupal Grandmaster | 15+ Years Experience

Ensuring peace of mind for Drupal site owners and businesses.
There's always a module for it — if not, I'll help you build one.

15+ Years Experience
200+ Websites Built
1000+ Developers Trained
11 Certifications
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About Me

Salman Haider

GitHub Certified & Triple Acquia Certified Drupal Expert — Drupal 8/9/10/11 specialist proficient in theming, backend development, leveraging the full spectrum of Drupal APIs, and implementing web development best practices including accessibility (WCAG), performance optimization, security hardening, responsive design, and industry-standard coding conventions.

I blend technical depth with a collaborative mindset to build high-performance, scalable, and enterprise-grade web solutions. With experience serving clients globally—including Fortune 500 companies like Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson—I bring CI/CD, DevOps best practices, and automation-first workflows.

Currently Web Developer (Drupal Lead) at American University of Sharjah, leading high-impact Drupal projects, system integrations, and performance optimizations. Former Lead Drupal Developer at Pfizer.

Mentor: Trained 1,000+ professionals in web development, Drupal CMS, and onboarding them towards successful freelancing careers on platforms like Fiverr, Upwork, Guru.com, PeoplePerHour, Freelancer, and several other marketplaces.

Pursuing Master's in Artificial Intelligence from University of Texas at Austin (2025-2027).

Sharjah/Dubai, UAE
MS AI - UT Austin
GitHub Certified
Featured in The DropTimes: "A Veteran Drupaler's Path to First In-Person DrupalCon"

Skills & Expertise

Technologies and tools I work with daily to build high-performance web solutions

Drupal
PHP
Symfony
MySQL
Redis
HTML
CSS
SASS
JavaScript
TypeScript
React
Twig
Git
GitHub
Docker
Acquia
Pantheon
Azure
AWS
Composer
Drush
VS Code
Figma
APIs
Postman
Salesforce
Jira
Asana
ClickUp
HubSpot
Crazy Egg

Drupal Expert

Scalable architecture, advanced content modeling (SDC, Paragraphs, Entity References), custom modules, API development, complex migrations across Drupal 8/9/10/11

Frontend & Theming

Twig templates, SDC, Bootstrap, Tailwind, Zurb Foundation, shadcn, Storybook, responsive design, CSS/SASS

Backend & Performance

PHP development, MySQL/MariaDB, Varnish, Redis caching, security hardening

DevOps & CI/CD

Git workflows, Docker/DDEV, CI/CD pipelines, Acquia Cloud, Azure DevOps

Certifications

GitHub Certified & Triple Acquia Certified Expert across Drupal 9, 10 & 11

11

Drupal 11

Latest

Certified Developer

May 23, 2025
10

Drupal 10

Triple Certified
Triple Certified Drupal 10

Back End Specialist

July 01, 2023

Developer

June 19, 2023

Front End Specialist

June 29, 2023

Site Builder

June 20, 2023
9

Drupal 9

Triple Certified
Triple Certified Drupal 9

Back End Specialist

July 08, 2023

Front End Specialist

September 10, 2022

Developer

June 2020

Site Builder

June 26, 2020

GitHub

Certified

GitHub Foundations

Verified on Credly

Drupal Contributions

Actively contributing to the Drupal community through maintained modules and issue queue participation

Issue Contributions

30 Total Issue Credits
25 Projects Contributed To
Inactive Autologout (3) Quiz (2) Entity Count Analyzer (2) Website Feedback (2) Paragraphs Webform Gin Admin Theme Gin Login Bootstrap4 Open Social Upgrade Status Block Class EVA Domain Group Formdazzle! Masked Input Mentions Node Weights Page Specific Class Popup After Login Entity Registration Replicate UI Sweet Alert Views Entity Form Field Ajans
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Community Events

Building and growing the Drupal community worldwide

Organized

Drupal 25th Anniversary

Dubai, UAE

January 2026

Attended

DrupalCon Nara 2025

Nara, Japan

November 2025

Organized

Drupal CMS Release Party

Sharjah/Dubai, UAE

January 2025

Organized

Drupal 10 Release Party

American University of Sharjah

December 2022

Attended

DrupalCon Portland 2024

Portland, USA

May 2024

Scholarship Recipient

DrupalCon Minneapolis 2020

Minneapolis, USA

Cancelled due to COVID

Attended

DrupalCon Global 2020

Online via Hopin

July 2020

Speaker

Fostering Drupal Growth in Pakistan

DrupalCamps: Peshawar, Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad

2015 - 2019

Kind Words

Don't just take my word for it — hear from colleagues and clients

Get In Touch

Have a Drupal project in mind? Need an expert to ensure peace of mind for your web presence?
Let's connect and discuss how I can help.

Triple Certified Expert

Backend Specialist • Frontend Specialist • Developer Specialist