Tarek Djebali
Lead Developer at SYMDRIK
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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Top SchoolTarek Djebali is a pragmatic Lead Developer based in Paris with 12 years of web industry experience, fluent across back-end, front-end and DevOps disciplines and rooted in Drupal since 2010. He has led engineering teams at SYMDRIK, OVHcloud and Klee Group, and spent a decade as a freelancer and co‑founder delivering maintainable solutions and developer training. An open-source evangelist, he contributes to the Backdrop CMS core, fixing security issues and PHP compatibility bugs while improving admin UX and content handling. Early-career battles with IE6 CSS hacks shaped his focus on robust, long-lived code and practical engineering practices. Known for blending hands-on coding with team mentorship, he brings both product-facing and infrastructure experience to drive reliable web platforms.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science Informatique, Bachelor of Computer Science Informatique at Institut supérieur des études Téchnologiques de Mahdia
Github Skills (5)
cms10
php10
back-end-development10
javascript8
css8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
backdrop/backdrop
Sep 2014 - Jan 2015
Backdrop core code repository.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 13 PRs, 11 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Tarek primarily contributed to bug fixes and enhancements within the Backdrop CMS core. Their work focused on improving various aspects of the system, including content type handling on the node add page, correcting admin menu icon loading, and renaming the admin menu to admin bar. The user also addressed vulnerabilities, improved file download functionality, and fixed a fatal parse error related to PHP version compatibility. Furthermore, the user improved the functionality of select elements and the custom block body to maintain formatting.
cmsbackdropphpcode-repository
tarekdj/yt-thmb
Jan 2021 - Sep 2022
Get the animated thumbnail URL of a Youtube video
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 36 commits in 1 year 8 months
youtube
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