Leolando Tan

Full-Stack and Acquia Certified Drupal Developer based in the Philippines.

Lead DXP Engineer and Senior Drupal Developer with 14 years of experience designing, building, upgrading, and maintaining enterprise Drupal platforms across Drupal 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11. Strong hands-on expertise in custom theme development, custom module development, backend architecture, site building, multilingual implementations, performance troubleshooting, API-driven integrations, deployment automation, and Drupal engineering best practices. Experienced in delivering scalable, maintainable, and deployment-ready Drupal solutions for global, high-traffic digital platforms using modern development workflows and enterprise hosting environments.

Work Experiences

Dentsu Myco Services, Inc.

  • Lead Drupal Engineer / April 2024 - Present
  • Delivered hands-on Drupal development and technical direction for global, high-traffic web applications, ensuring scalable and maintainable implementation.
  • Advanced Drupal platform capabilities by designing complex features, custom themes, custom modules, and application enhancements while resolving deep technical blockers.
  • Improved delivery alignment by translating product and UI requirements into Drupal-focused technical specifications for scalable implementation.
  • Strengthened code quality and release readiness through peer reviews, Drupal coding standards and implementation best practices, and containerized local development using Docker and DDEV.
  • Enabled smoother distributed delivery by clarifying requirements, communicating technical decisions, and completing Drupal work with minimal supervision.
  • Senior Software Engineer / March 2022 - March 2024
  • Delivered major Drupal platform features across multiple regional web properties and supported reliable end-to-end feature delivery.
  • Restored and improved Drupal application reliability through systematic debugging, root-cause analysis, and technical remediation.
  • Improved maintainability by documenting custom Drupal modules, configuration changes, and implementation patterns for development teams.
  • Raised development quality by reviewing Drupal code and mentoring developers on safe, maintainable backend implementation patterns.

Promet Source Corporation

  • Senior Drupal Developer / August 2020 - March 2022
  • Delivered enterprise Drupal 7 and Drupal 8 development, upgrade, and support work across complex web platforms.
  • Supported global content operations by building and maintaining complex multilingual Drupal sites with localized content workflows.
  • Improved release coordination by applying Gitflow-based branching, structured release workflows, and collaborative agile development practices.
  • Automated release environment provisioning by integrating Jenkins with Pantheon APIs to create isolated Multidev sandboxes on version increment triggers.
  • Reduced deployment friction by standardizing Drupal release workflows and automating environment provisioning for release validation.
  • Modernized local development workflows by leading the adoption of Docker-based environments to replace Vagrant setups, improving consistency, portability, and team efficiency.
  • Mid-level Full Stack Drupal Developer / May 2015 - July 2020
  • Delivered maintainable Drupal functionality by building Content Types, Views, Taxonomy, Blocks, custom modules, custom themes, and backend features.
  • Translated design assets into responsive Drupal themes and Twig templates using HTML, CSS/SCSS, and JavaScript.
  • Improved local Drupal development reliability by configuring Docker and Vagrant environments for project teams.
  • Supported reliable enterprise releases by preparing Drupal codebases for deployment to Acquia and Pantheon hosting platforms.

Trimorph Corporation

  • Drupal Developer / July 2012 - May 2015
  • Delivered client-facing Drupal websites through site-building, troubleshooting, and feature development.
  • Supported client delivery by working independently and with small development teams to implement Drupal solutions aligned with requirements.
  • Improved long-term maintainability by applying Drupal coding standards to custom development work.

Technologies and Tools

Content Management System

Drupal 7, Drupal 8, Drupal 9, Drupal 10, Drupal 11

Back End

Composer, PHP, MySQL, Apache, Nginx

Front End

HTML5, CSS3, SCSS, LESS, Bootstrap, JavaScript, jQuery, Twig, Grunt, Gulp, Tailwind, Storybook

Enterprise Hosting

Acquia, Pantheon

PHP Framework

Symfony and Laravel

Local Development tool

Docker, Vagrant, PHPStorm, Visual Studio Code, DDEV

Javascript Framework

Angular, Ionic

DevOps and Automation

Jenkins deployment automation, Pantheon Multidev provisioning, Gitflow, Bamboo build and deployment workflows

Project Management

Jira, Confluence

Version Control Systems

GitHub, Bitbucket

Community Engagements

Drupal patches for core and contributed modules

  • Contributor / 2018 - Present

Drupal development with Docker

  • Drupal Camp Manila speaker / April 28, 2018
  • Drupal Camp Cebu speaker / November 17, 2018

Ionic and Headless Drupal Awesomeness

  • Drupal Camp Cebu speaker / November 25, 2017

Drupal Contribution

  • Drupal Camp Manila speaker / May 7, 2016
  • Drupal Camp Cebu speaker / November 19, 2016

Made with Drupal 8

  • Drupal Camp Cebu speaker / November 7, 2015