About Mike Stiv

My name is Michalis Stivaktakis. I’m a freelance Drupal backend developer, architect and consultant, currently working with zehnplus, and an active member of the drupal.org community.

I started building for the web in 2001 and have worked with Drupal since 2009. In that time I’ve delivered projects across the whole spectrum: e-commerce platforms, reservation systems, social portals, CRM/ERP integrations, API design and consumption, custom search with Solr, and complex data migrations. Along the way I’ve picked up deep experience in the fields around the code — SEO, web server optimisation, Linux administration and performance tuning.

My focus is backend architecture: designing and building scalable web applications on the Drupal API, with clean custom functionality instead of workarounds. I work agile whenever the project allows it, and I’m a firm believer in automation and continuous integration — code that ships itself is code that ships reliably.

If you’d like to work together or just talk Drupal, reach me on LinkedIn or X.