
Costin Botez
Verified Expert in Engineering
Web Developer
Constanța, Romania
Toptal member since October 28, 2016
Costin is a freelance WordPress developer with more than 10 years of experience for clients including FIFA and JustPark. He specializes in custom themes and ACF-powered builds, with deep expertise in performance optimization, Core Web Vitals, and technical SEO. He also works with headless architectures using Next.js on top of WordPress. Known for fixed scope delivery and a 98 percent long-term client retention rate, Costin brings strategic thinking and reliable execution to every engagement.
Portfolio
Experience
- WordPress - 10 years
- Search Engine Optimization (SEO) - 9 years
- WooCommerce API - 9 years
- Support & Maintenance - 9 years
- Theme Development - 7 years
- Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) - 7 years
- Plugin Development - 7 years
- API Integration - 7 years
Preferred Environment
Local Hosting, SourceTree, Git, Docker
The most amazing...
...project I worked on: JustPark’s WordPress B2B platform, serving millions of UK drivers behind a reverse proxy with a custom ACF architecture.
Work Experience
Contract WordPress Developer
JustPark
- Led the WordPress development behind the rebranding and relaunch of JustPark.com/business, a platform revolutionizing mobility and smart parking technology in the UK and US.
- Built the new site architecture using modular, ACF component-based development for scale and flexibility.
- Translated Figma designs into responsive WordPress components.
- Delivered custom functionality to support dynamic content and better user engagement.
- Collaborated with design and marketing teams to align visuals, UX, and performance.
- Developed and currently maintain multiple parking event websites for both the US and UK markets, including JustPark.com/business, all hosted on Kinsta for high performance and reliability.
Contract WordPress Developer
TQ Legal
- Rebranded TQ Legal's website to enhance user experience and modernize their online presence.
- Utilized Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) for flexible content management.
- Integrated animations to bring a sleek design to life.
- Contributed to the project, resulting in a dynamic, interactive, and user-friendly website, perfectly aligning with TQ Legal's branding goals.
- Added an AI chatbot to improve customer interaction and set up a newsletter for better client engagement.
Contract WordPress Developer
ReLondon
- Improved the user approval process and back-end styling for a WordPress website, enhancing team and user experience.
- Streamlined the directory setup process, reducing new user setup hassles.
- Advised on integrating and optimizing Mighty Networks for better community engagement.
Contract WordPress Developer
Pangolin Communications
- Curated a corporate website for an award-winning tech supplier in China by improving their website's page speed.
- Successfully identified, diagnosed, and fixed their website bugs, including boosting the SEO score and ranking.
- Worked with custom fields to develop new eCommerce features.
Contract WordPress Developer
Cisco
- Effectively translated client requirements into a presentation website development and fresh design.
- Developed a bespoke page builder using ACF and a custom theme to achieve a consistent look across the website.
- Remained dedicated to emerging technology and the latest digital marketing concepts.
Contract WordPress Developer
Feed Communications
- Worked along with the design and marketing teams in order to redesign a client's website and migrate everything to live quickly and smoothly.
- Implemented speed improvements and enhanced their SEO ranking.
- Cooperated alongside design and marketing teams to redesign a client's website and migrate everything to live quickly and smoothly.
Contract WordPress Developer
Third Space Learning
- Worked mainly as a WordPress consultant, helping the company improve their social awareness by improving their SEO score.
- Performed day-to-day responsibilities such as redesigning the company’s websites for specific marketing campaigns, maintaining the code for security reasons and consistency, developing and implementing new features.
- Planned and estimated all milestones alongside marketing and design teams on sprints to deliver the new features on schedule.
Contract WordPress Developer
Eulogy
- Developed a bespoke theme in a WordPress website for a UK startup.
- Cooperated alongside design and marketing teams in order to re-design a client's website and migrate everything to live quickly and smoothly.
- Successfully identified, diagnosed, and fixed their website bugs, including boosting the SEO score and page speed ranking.
Web Developer and Project Manager
Inception Group
- Created a landing page for a new pop-up venue, Spritzandgiggles.co.uk.
- Managed the development of Mr. Fogg's collective multisite.
- Dealt with the weekly maintenance such as updates, A/B testing, and security checks.
- Optimized the speed and performance of all the company venue websites.
- Successfully identified, diagnosed, and fixed their website bugs, including boosting the SEO score and page speed ranking.
- Integrated a "mood recognition" feature in newsletters to help the MK team track conversion rates more efficiently.
- Implemented an isotope gallery for the IG website.
- Found and removed malicious viruses from Mr. Fogg's websites.
- Developed an in-house events menu builder that is currently helping the events and design teams to work better.
Full-stack WordPress Developer
Akson Kreative
- Created a WordPress plugin for an e-learning platform where the administrator can assign courses to custom user roles.
- Developed a WordPress e-learning platform where members can apply CRUD operations on custom post types depending on their privileges, including integration with BuddyPress for social media activities.
- Built a WordPress landing page as a presentation website that included all custom plugins, themes, and JavaScript effects.
- Created a WordPress eCommerce website for a coffee shop, including the capability of buying coffee via subscriptions based on custom grinds and quantities (bags or not) which would be delivered in regular intervals.
- Developed a WordPress plugin that lists all the upcoming orders by date and distinct products from all orders in a given day. Each order contained a preferred delivery date.
- Wrote an algorithm for a WordPress e-learning platform where courses can be structured easily using trees for a given pattern (a week or day module).
- Conducted day-to-day responsibilities such as maintaining the legacy websites, help the business open new venue websites, and integrating them smoothly with the existing internal hubs.
- Integrated a few CRM software, guided the marketing team on different strategies using the traffic data, created landing pages for specific campaigns, and created an internal menu creator tool (which was fun).
Experience
JustPark/Business
https://www.justpark.com/business/Inception Group
https://inception-group.com/Mr Fogg’s House of Botanicals
https://hob.nomad-developer.co.uk/Cisco - Bedfont Showroom
https://cisco.nomad-developer.co.uk/Oxbotica
https://oxa.tech/Ebsta - Intelligent Web Development for a CRM Powerhouse
https://ebsta.nomad-developer.co.uk/DS-48 – A Secure, High-performance Website for Elite Risk Advisors
Connection Training – Long-term Partnership for a Horse-loving Global Community
https://connectiontraining.com/Education
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
Ovidius University, Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics - Constanta, Romania
Skills
Libraries/APIs
WooCommerce API, BuddyPress, Google Maps API
Tools
Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), Figma, Git
Languages
CSS3, HTML5, PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript
Paradigms
Search Engine Optimization (SEO), B2B, Procedural Programming, Object-oriented Programming (OOP)
Platforms
WordPress, WooCommerce, Docker
Storage
WP Engine, MySQL
Frameworks
Bootstrap
Other
Plugin Development, Theme Development, Support & Maintenance, Migration, Troubleshooting, WordPress Themes, Pixel Perfect, WordPress Plugins, Web Development, Landing Pages, SEO Tools, API Integration, WordPress Design, Elementor, Algorithms, Scripting, Membership Sites, Reverse Proxy, IsotopeJS, Isotope, WordPress LMS
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