Algolia search integration for the American Battlefield Trust’s Drupal website. One of my early projects: I implemented faceted search, query suggestions, and the educator portal search from scratch. I have continued contributing to the main site since then.
The battlefields.org Drupal site has thousands of pages of historical content. Algolia search was one of my early projects, and I implemented the integration from scratch, replacing the default Drupal search with a fast, faceted, client-side experience.
I built the Algolia search integration end to end:
I also built the educator portal search as a separate Algolia integration (ABT-867). This included a resource search block and template, desktop and responsive theming, facet preprocessing that merges Historical and Battle maps into a single facet, background styling, and button/keypress handlers.
Since the initial search build, I have continued contributing to the broader battlefields.org site with 221 total commits across the main repo. This includes bug fixes across multiple tickets, media modal fixes, megamenu updates, and search term corrections.
Interested in working together? I'm always open to discussing new projects and opportunities.
Lead engineer on the Smithsonian's 250th anniversary mapping platform. Refactored a monolithic Drupal module into 11 custom entity types, imported about 21,500 entities from an S3 pipeline, and built 10 Leaflet map views. Launched July 2026.
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