Project: Porting of the Drupal 7 Icon API Module to Drupal 8
Selected from a global pool of 30,922 applicants as one of 1,276 students accepted into GSoC’19, and successfully completed the program as one of 1,134 contributors.
Successfully rewrote a legacy Drupal 7 module into modern object-oriented PHP for Drupal 8, aligning it with the Symfony framework and Drupal’s plugin system.
Overcame major architectural incompatibilities in migrating procedural to object-oriented code while ensuring seamless backward compatibility.
Developed a modular API enabling icons to be used dynamically in Blocks, Menus, Fields, and Content Filters, improving UI consistency across Drupal sites.
Created custom FontAwesome integration for Drupal’s ecosystem, optimizing icon rendering for thousands of users.
Led technical discussions with Drupal’s core maintainers and mentors, ensuring the module met Drupal 8 security and performance standards.
Contributed code that became part of Drupal’s official module repository.
Attended weekly Agile SCRUM meetings with mentors and organization admins, improving project planning and collaboration skills.
Published a detailed technical blog series documenting the module’s migration, architecture changes, and performance optimizations.
Earned global recognition in the open-source community, reinforcing my expertise in Drupal development and large-scale system migrations.
GSoC Statistics: https://opensource.googleblog.com/2019/09/google-summer-of-code-2019-statistics.html
Icon API module: https://www.drupal.org/project/icon_api
GSoC Project Details: https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/archive/2019/projects/4598684933685248
GSoC Journey Blog: https://malik-naik.blogspot.com/
GSoC Drupal Page: https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/archive/2019/organizations/4872193886912512
GSoC Drupal Kickoff page: https://groups.drupal.org/node/535117