Pragmatic Exciting Drupal Engineering
Modernisation, migration, and integration for organisations that depend on Drupal. Deep technical expertise and extensive experience enhanced by AI-driven development practices.
Much of our work comes through recommendations from long-standing clients and professional partners.
// why work with us
Digital Massive is a specialist development studio with 25 years of Drupal experience, from D6 through D11. We work with established organisations that rely on Drupal to support critical business processes. Our role is to help those platforms evolve safely — modernising architecture, improving integrations, and ensuring systems remain stable, secure, and maintainable.
Years of Drupal
Every major version
Users on platforms we've built
Senior-level delivery
Many projects involve multiple platforms, legacy data, and critical workflows. We approach this complexity carefully and methodically, drawing on decades of hands-on Drupal experience.
We focus on what works in practice. Our goal is to improve systems without unnecessary disruption or over-engineering. Every recommendation is grounded in real delivery experience.
No account management layer between you and the people writing the code. You work directly with senior developers who understand your codebase and your business context.
We prioritise maintainable architecture, clear documentation, and sustainable coding practices. Your systems should outlast any single engagement and remain manageable by any competent team.
// what we do
Major version upgrades handled with care. We've taken platforms from D6 through D7, D9, D10, and now D11 — managing deprecations, module compatibility, and theme transitions at every step.
Safe, repeatable processes for moving large and complex datasets between systems. We've migrated platforms with 90,000+ articles, 50,000+ user accounts, and 100GB+ of archived content.
Connecting Drupal with CRMs, email services, SMS providers, LMS platforms, and bespoke internal systems. Secure authentication, robust error handling, and clear documentation.
Bespoke Drupal modules for when contributed modules don't fit. From custom LMS platforms to AI-powered search and secure examination delivery systems.
Reducing technical debt, updating deprecated modules, improving maintainability. We maintain prioritised debt registers and address legacy issues systematically rather than letting them compound.
Responsive, accessible Drupal themes built to WCAG 2.2 AA standards. Performance-optimised for global audiences, including low-bandwidth regions. Bootstrap 5, Tailwind CSS, and custom themes.
// ai-enhanced development
We don't bolt AI onto existing processes as a gimmick. We integrate it deeply into how we write, review, test, and document code — making every stage of development faster and more reliable. AI is a tool in our workshop, not the thing we're selling.
Every pull request gets human review and independent AI scrutiny. AI catches patterns that familiarity can obscure: inconsistent error handling, missed edge cases, suboptimal queries, and deviations from Drupal best practices. AI-generated code also gets reviewed by AI, ensuring no machine-generated code enters the codebase unchecked.
A bug logged in your issue tracker is picked up by an AI agent that analyses the issue, examines the codebase, develops a fix on a feature branch, writes tests, documents the change, and submits a pull request — all before a human developer reviews the output. The developer's role shifts from writing the fix to verifying it.
Comprehensive automated testing used to be a budget-dependent luxury. AI tools now generate PHPUnit tests as a natural byproduct of development, delivering dramatically improved test coverage without requiring a separate testing budget.
AI maintains inline code comments, generates wiki-style markdown documentation for every custom module — covering purpose, architecture, configuration, and API usage. Documentation that is significantly more thorough and consistently maintained than was previously practical.
We're developing AI-assisted workflows that take designs directly from Figma and generate production-ready, reusable component libraries. Faster implementation, fewer inconsistencies between design intent and code output.
AI-assisted code analysis integrated into CI pipelines flags code complexity, deprecated API usage, and dependency vulnerabilities in real time — surfacing technical debt as part of the pull request process rather than waiting for periodic manual reviews.
AI should be practical, ethical, and genuinely useful. We help teams integrate AI tools thoughtfully — automating the right things, augmenting human work, and building smarter products without the hype. We follow strict data governance: no PII or commercially sensitive data is shared with language models, all AI-generated code is human-reviewed before deployment, and we maintain full transparency about where AI is used in our workflow.
// track record
We specialise in long-running relationships with organisations that need reliable, sustained engineering. Here are some of the platforms we've worked on.
Drupal 10/11 · Ongoing
Multiple platforms including TeachingEnglish and Premier League Partnership sites. Major version upgrades, custom LMS development, JSON:API data synchronisation, and accessibility compliance.
Drupal + Moodle · 500,000 users
A Drupal and Moodle LMS serving over 500,000 UK civil servants for continuing professional development. Stringent public sector data handling, GDPR compliance, extensive test suites covering course booking, search, and authentication.
Drupal + AI · Membership portal
AI-powered search and conversational query capabilities across 100GB+ of archived content with role-based access tiers. Multi-layer integration connecting Drupal to AI assistant services, OOmi CRM, and Zoom for worldwide event management.
Drupal + Opigno · Examination platform
Secure examination delivery for apprentices. Live assessment sessions, time-controlled environments, tamper-evident result storage, and GDPR-compliant data processing. Operated at production quality for nearly five years.
// the people
Director & Lead Developer
25 years of Drupal experience spanning every major version. Single point of contact who holds comprehensive knowledge of client codebases and participates directly in technical discussions, discovery, and delivery.
Senior Drupal Developer
Nearly ten years collaborating with Digital Massive. Provides assured continuity and additional senior capacity. Senior Developer, AI Expert, Solutions Architect, Dev Ops.
Supported by a network of associate developers who work alongside us — bringing specialist expertise in custom module development, site config, front-end, accessibility, and anything Drupal, exactly when it's needed.
// let's talk
If you're planning an upgrade, migration, or integration project, we're always happy to discuss your requirements and help explore the best approach. An honest proactive conversation — no flim flam.
tim@digitalmassive.co.uk