Darko Gjorgjijoski

Audiophoria is a high-end audio retailer whose online store I rebuilt as a headless e-commerce platform. As the sole developer, I owned the project end to end: architecture, front end, back end, infrastructure, and go-live.

The storefront is built with Next.js (App Router, TypeScript, Tailwind) and renders catalog and product pages server-side for SEO and strong Core Web Vitals, while cart, checkout, and account flows run client-side through secure API routes. WordPress and WooCommerce serve as a headless CMS via the WooCommerce REST API and WPGraphQL.

Key work included a custom PayPal gateway alongside Stripe, a loyalty rewards program, VAT-aware pricing, product search by name and SKU, consent-aware analytics and ad tracking, and media offloading to Cloudflare R2.

I also set up Docker-based local development, CI quality gates on GitHub Actions, and Kubernetes staging and production environments with automated deploys, then migrated and merged the live store data for a smooth launch.

Built a custom React-based sign-up and onboarding flow for Thunder Lawns, a lawn care company, that brings Stripe, Jobber and Klaviyo together in one step. When a new customer signs up, the flow captures their service details, collects payment through Stripe, creates the client and job in Jobber, and adds them to Klaviyo for automated email follow-up. It replaced a manual, multi-tool intake process with an automated pipeline. I also delivered the surrounding marketing site, pixel-matched to the existing design and tuned for top Google PageSpeed scores.

A search-as-a-service platform with an engine-agnostic architecture across the Go control plane, customer portal, and WordPress plugin. Currently deploys Meilisearch instances, with the codebase designed to support additional engines, such as Typesense. As the platform engineer, I built the full stack: a Go-based control plane that handles instance lifecycle (create, start, stop, delete), the public site celersearch.com in Nuxt, and the CelerSearch WordPress plugin that connects WordPress sites to a hosted instance. The customer-facing surface is a Laravel/Livewire portal that queues operations to the control plane and handles subscription billing through Paddle, support ticketing, and the affiliate program.

I designed and implemented the on-premises cloud infrastructure for ilnp.com, hosted on our own hardware. The site is built with the Roots WordPress framework and WooCommerce, and runs on a K3s-powered Kubernetes cluster with CI/CD via GitHub Actions and Docker.

An open-source, self-hosted invoicing and expense-tracking app for individuals and small businesses, built with Laravel and Vue 3 and deployable via Docker Compose. I've been a core maintainer of the original repository since 2024. My work includes shipping multi-tenancy, leading a large-scale refactor across both layers (migrating the front end from untyped JavaScript to fully typed TypeScript, and reorganizing the back end into cleaner modules for better readability and extension), and building AI-powered invoice scanning for the upcoming 3.0 release.

A Composer package registry you can run on your own infrastructure. Ships as a single Go binary with an embedded admin dashboard, organization-scoped tokens, local or S3-compatible storage, and package syncing from GitHub and GitLab.

I developed a custom WordPress website from Photoshop designs (PSD) for Engagestudio.com. The site was developed using ACF to provide a seamless editing experience and was integrated with Trustpilot, HubSpot, and Google Maps.

A custom PHP based B2B platform and a WordPress-based website for one of Canada's largest food suppliers/manufacturers. I developed this website based on a wireframe: the site contains a product database and integrates with Instagram and Facebook.