Yousif Kisha

Application Development & Systems Integration

Career summary

Career summary

Technical consultancy, Drupal technical leadership, application development and systems integration.

Experience at a glance

Institute and Faculty of Actuaries
First joined July 2016; returned as a contractor in November 2019. Application development, CRM and learning-platform integration, operational support and technical contribution to the OPSR systems transition.
Graphic Alliance · Senior Drupal Developer · 2019
Back-end development, migrations, testing and documentation, with technical leadership and support for Drupal developers.
NDP and earlier agency work
Drupal consultancy, custom modules, APIs, payment systems, migration and support. Responsibility for a staff appraisal and performance-management initiative at NDP.

Selected implementations

  • Hiscox · 2019: configured SSO for seamless login across multiple sites.
  • IFoA · 2022: advised on and configured SAML SSO from one IdP to five SPs, including two CMS platforms and Totara; continuing maintenance and support.
  • Exam-results delivery: designed and built an authenticated ASP.NET and Razor system delivering approximately 6,000 results files per release in under 30 minutes.
  • CRM integration: built queues for transaction updates, alongside application integration and support covering Integra and Dynamics.

Technical areas

PHP · Drupal · DNN · SQL · APIs and web services · Dynamics integration · Moodle and Totara · SAML/SSO · ASP.NET · Razor · C# · Linux application environments · Azure · AWS.

Education and contribution

MBA with Merit, University of East London. Dissertation on working with suppliers awarded Distinction. Voluntary security-related reviews on Drupal.org.

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