Lukmon Awoyemi

Senior Drupal & Full Stack Developer

Introduction

I'm a Senior Drupal and full-stack developer based in Wickford, Essex, with seven years building enterprise platforms for organisations that can't afford downtime: the World Trade Organization, MTN Nigeria, and international NGOs operating across 46 least-developed countries. My background in Physics — I graduated as Best Physics Student from Lagos State University — shapes how I approach software: find the underlying model, understand the constraints, find the cleanest path through.

Work Experience

Softescu

Aug 2021 – Present

Senior Drupal & Full Stack Developer

Key client: World Trade Organization — TAMS, STDF, TPRQA, EIF platforms.
Built custom REST resource plugins with complex deadline calculation logic for TPRQA submission workflows.
Implemented SAML/ADFS SSO via samlauth, including migrating a legacy Drupal 7 SimpleSAMLphp implementation to Pantheon.
Led multilingual webform development for STDF Fish Fund across 6 languages.
Planned Drupal 10 → 11 upgrade for TAMS: module compatibility audits, Jira epics, and phased migration path.
Debugged critical Solr search issues on Pantheon — restored site-wide search and recovered 800+ missing export records.

Fat Beehive

May 2025 – Aug 2025

Full Stack Developer

Drupal CMS backends for multiple UK client projects, custom module patches, and Drupal Commerce compatibility fixes.
Engineered custom patches for the Drupal Commerce module to ensure compatibility with React-driven checkout flows.
Performed Drupal version upgrades maintaining stable API contracts consumed by React frontends.

Ekfrazo — Contract for MTN Nigeria

Sep 2024 – May 2025

Full Stack Developer

Led Drupal backend development for MTN Play (play.mtn.ng), serving millions of users.
Built REST and JSON:API endpoints and custom content workflow modules.
Built React frontend components including a custom audio player integrated with Drupal JSON:API.

Ronder Digital

May 2024 – Dec 2024

Web Developer

Drupal-powered campaign and institutional websites for Dutch clients including VGN and Landschap Noord-Holland.
Figma-to-Twig workflows, custom themes, and Core Web Vitals optimisation.

Education

University of Hertfordshire

MSc Computer Science (in progress, expected Aug 2026). Modules: Computer Architecture, Software Engineering, Database Systems, OS & Networks Security.

Lagos State University

BSc Physics (2:1) — Best Graduating Physics Student, 2019. Analytical and modelling foundations that directly inform software architecture and debugging.

Technical Skills

Drupal (9/10/11)

Custom module development, Plugin API, Form API, Services & DI, Twig theming, Views, Webforms, Workflows, Multisite, Multilingual, Config Split.

Drupal

PHP 8

Twig

Drush

Integrations & APIs

REST API, JSON:API, SAML/ADFS SSO, Search API + Solr, Migrate API, Third-party API integrations.

REST API

JSON:API

SAML

Solr

Frontend

React 18/19, Next.js, TypeScript, JavaScript ES6+, Tailwind CSS, WCAG 2.1 A/AA accessibility compliance.

React

Next.js

TypeScript

Platforms & DevOps

Pantheon, Acquia Cloud, Docker, Git/GitHub, CI/CD Pipelines, Lando, DDEV, Linux CLI, Composer.

Pantheon

DDEV

Docker