Question 1

What is Santiago Yie's expertise?

Accepted Answer

Santiago has 18 years of production PHP, Symfony, and Drupal expertise. He specializes in zero-data-loss migrations (Drupal 7→11) and enterprise third-party integrations (Salesforce, Stripe, Firebase, SAML SSO). Under the yielab name he also builds open-source developer tools as AI-assisted R&D.

Question 2

Does Santiago do Drupal migrations?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Santiago has delivered roughly 10 migrations across his career for government, nonprofit, and enterprise clients — including a federal legal-aid nonprofit's Drupal 7→9 multi-site migration — with a track record of no data loss, including large source datasets.

Question 3

What third-party integrations can Santiago build?

Accepted Answer

Santiago builds integrations with Salesforce (Apex triggers and REST bridges), Stripe for payments, Firebase, Twilio for SMS, SendGrid for email, and custom OAuth 2.0/SAML SSO flows.

Question 4

Does Santiago work with AI?

Accepted Answer

Yes. In 2018 he integrated a production NLP chatbot (Microsoft LUIS) into a Drupal platform for a global telecom brand. Today, under the yielab name, he builds open-source developer tools as AI-assisted R&D: Adapta (private LLM customization, Python/FastAPI), Docket (agent ops, Bash), and Tack (self-hosted project manager, Rust/SolidJS) — architecture and engineering discipline his, implementation AI-assisted.