Salah Messaoud

Dassault Systèmes · Paris, France

• Solution Architect Jan 2024 – Present
• Drupal Technical Lead Jul 2021 – Dec 2023
• Drupal Expert Oct 2018 – Jun 2021

• Own the architecture of Dassault Systèmes' global, multilingual marketing sites (headless Drupal, Nuxt SSR, Akamai) and lead the 8-person team that builds and runs them.
• Led technical direction for the Drupal platform behind the corporate sites, moving delivery to CI/CD on Drupal 8+.
• Joined in 2018 via DHM IT; hired directly in 2021.

DHM IT & Independent · Paris, France

• Senior Drupal Consultant Oct 2017 – Oct 2018

• Delivered Drupal projects for Radio France and CCI Paris Île-de-France as a contract developer.
• Led a Drupal project for Sodebo as project manager and tech lead.

Angry Cactus Technology · Tunis, Tunisia

• Senior Drupal Consultant 2016 – 2017
• Drupal Consultant 2013 – 2015
• Trainee 2012

• Delivered Drupal/DKAN open-data portals for the World Bank, HHS (HealthData.gov), USDA (Ag Data Commons) and the International Organization for Migration.
• Built open-source features for DKAN, Drupal's open-data distribution, in an Agile Scrum team with CI and Behat tests.
• Managed client relationships and mentored junior developers.
• Started as a trainee and published Woodsman, an Omega 3 sub-theme, on drupal.org.

Dassault Systèmes web platform

2018 – Present · Dassault Systèmes · Enterprise platform

The Drupal platform behind Dassault Systèmes' corporate and global, multilingual marketing sites, now headless with Nuxt SSR and Akamai.

• Own the architecture of the headless stack and lead the 8-person team that builds and runs it.
• As technical lead (2021–2023), set the platform's technical direction and moved delivery to CI/CD on Drupal 8+.

Stack: Drupal, Nuxt SSR, Akamai, Multilingual, CI/CD

Counter-Trafficking Data Collaborative

2016 – 2017 · International Organization for Migration · Open data

IOM's global open-data portal on human trafficking, built on DKAN and launched in 2017.

• Deployed and configured a multi-server environment on Azure.
• Set up backups with Drush and shell scripts, and continuous integration with Rundeck.
• Managed the client relationship and built data dashboards with DKAN Dashboard.

Stack: DKAN, Azure, Rundeck, Drush

Development Data Hub

2016 · The World Bank · Data portal

An internal data portal for the World Bank, built on DKAN.

• Mapped the Bank's data model to custom DKAN metadata fields.
• Extended DKAN search with the Search API to support those fields as facets.
• Customized the dataset page with contrib and custom modules and theme functions.

Stack: Drupal, DKAN, Search API

DKAN Feedback

2015 – 2016 · NuCivic (open source) · Open source

A community feedback module for DKAN: visitors leave feedback on published datasets and vote it up or down.

• Designed, built and themed the module on Voting API, Rate, Captcha and Views.
• Packaged as a Feature with a Drush makefile.
• Developed in NuCivic's Agile product team, with CI on CircleCI and Probo.

Stack: Drupal, DKAN, Voting API, CircleCI, Probo

HealthData.gov

2015 · US Department of Health & Human Services · Open data

HHS's national health open-data portal, built on DKAN.

• Led the upgrade of a heavily customized DKAN portal and shipped multiple releases on Acquia Cloud.
• Configured DKAN Harvest so the data.json output validates against the US Project Open Data metadata schema.
• Added Behat tests and monitored continuous testing on CircleCI.

Stack: Drupal, DKAN, Acquia Cloud, Behat, CircleCI

Ag Data Commons

2015 · US Department of Agriculture · Open data

A DKAN open-data portal for the US Department of Agriculture.

• Refactored the dataset entry form, simplifying both the code and the editor experience.
• Wrote a custom module on the Panels API to support field types Panels couldn't handle.
• Upgraded the customized portal to a new DKAN release, reconciling custom code with three-way merges.

Stack: Drupal, DKAN, Panels API