Retained as Software Architect and NGO Technical Partner to oversee, optimize, and maintain the digital publishing infrastructure for Ajel.sa, a major news agency in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The engineering mandate required managing a multi-server Drupal enterprise environment hosted on Acquia Cloud, tuned to achieve low-latency edge rendering and maintain performance during high-concurrency regional breaking news traffic spikes.

//Engineering Impact

• ->Reduced database lookups through Varnish reverse-proxy variables and Drupal block-level caching rules, lowering Time-to-First-Byte (TTFB)
• ->Maintained performance during high-concurrency regional breaking news traffic spikes via optimized Acquia Cloud deployment states and custom hooks
• ->Improved system stability and reduced relational search locks during active news cycles through database query and index tuning

//Edge Cases Managed

• ->Overhead of monolithic CMS taxonomy tracking
• ->Relational search locks when users queried the media archives during active news cycles
• ->Multi-party external news wire ingestion and API text transformations
• ->Integration of Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) pipelines and Google News syndication protocols