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Darko Goles
Verified Expert in Engineering
Magento Developer
Osijek, Croatia
Toptal member since May 1, 2015
Bio
Darko is a Certified Magento Developer Plus as well as a solution specialist, book author, and blogger. With over eleven years' web programming experience including 5+ as an eCommerce professional specialized in web service APIs, third party integrations, and speed optimizations, he delivers only the best quality optimized code.
Portfolio
PinpointDesigns, Ltd.
Magento, PHP, Magento 2, eCommerce, PayPal, PayPal API, Payment Gateways...
ApiWorks d.o.o.
Web Services, MySQL, Magento, PHP, Magento 2, eCommerce, PayPal, PayPal API...
Lab Lateral
Magento, PHP, eCommerce, Magento API, Architecture
Experience
- PHP - 14 years
- MySQL - 10 years
- REST - 10 years
- Magento - 10 years
- eCommerce - 10 years
- JavaScript - 7 years
- RESTful Web Services - 6 years
- Magento 2 - 4 years
Preferred Environment
Web Services, MySQL, Magento, PHP
The most amazing...
...thing I've done is author the book "Magento Mobile How-To."
Work Experience
Senior Magento Developer
2015 - PRESENT
PinpointDesigns, Ltd.
- Consulted on Magento-related issues.
- Developed back-end functionality.
Technologies: Magento, PHP, Magento 2, eCommerce, PayPal, PayPal API, Payment Gateways, Magento API, Architecture
Magento Certified Developer/Consultant
2014 - PRESENT
ApiWorks d.o.o.
- Contracted for Abacus, a Canadian internet agency.
- Provided contract services on several smaller projects for Surgeworks, Ltd., Utah, US.
- Developed for for Lab Lateral, Ltd., a UK web agency handling large Magento projects.
Technologies: Web Services, MySQL, Magento, PHP, Magento 2, eCommerce, PayPal, PayPal API, Payment Gateways, Magento API, Architecture, GraphQL
Magento Developer
2014 - 2015
Lab Lateral
- Contributed to the development of large Magento projects.
Technologies: Magento, PHP, eCommerce, Magento API, Architecture
Magento Certified Developer PLUS
2012 - 2014
Inchoo, Ltd.
- Worked in Inchoo as a full-time Magento professional, I gained experience in eCommerce in general and also in project management and organizational skills.
- Passed the Magento Certified Developer certification as a result of working on large Magento Enterprise projects.
- Worked a lot on Magento site optimizations helping clients (merchants) to increase conversions and user experience on their web shops.
- Authored a book through Packt Publishing, Birmingham, UK.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), MySQL, Magento, PHP, eCommerce, PayPal, PayPal API, Magento API
PHP/Symfony 2 Developer
2011 - 2012
Surgeworks, Ltd.
- Worked on different mobile application projects and web service APIs as a web service specialist in the iOS development team.
- Supported and developed the website divineoffice.org.
- Created DivineOfficeHUB, a powerful mobile data and content management PHP application.
- Contributed as one of the first Symfony 2 blog authors with over thirty articles.
- Used Agile methodologies for product development to increase profit to Surgeworks in the mobile market.
Technologies: WordPress, MySQL, Web Services, Symfony 2, PHP
Freelance Web Developer
2007 - 2011
Goleš-media
- Created more than twenty websites using plain HTML, CSS, Joomla, and WordPress,.
- Created several websites with eCommerce/eCatalog functionality.
Technologies: Flash, MySQL, Joomla, WordPress, PHP
Experience
Prayer
Prayer was part of one large project I worked on in Surgeworks. The application is powered by a content delivery platform named DivineOfficeHUB, which I developed.
DivineOfficeHUB
DivineOfficeHUB is a fully customizable CMS that serves as a data provider for mobile applications using REST web services. Also it has a complete set of rich features for content entry and content organization managment. Used by Surgeworks mobile application projects.
Medjugorje
Like Prayer, this product was part of the same project which is powered with same content delivery platform built by myself.
Mageboard
A powerful iPhone/iPad mobile application made by Inchoo for Magento store owners. My part of the project was the Magento extension that provides all necessary data via SOAP web services to mobile app.
Juvalia & You
An online jewelry store operating in four countries.
Divine Office
Divine Office's purpose is to spread, deepen and enhance the Christian faith of the communities in which we work and live and of the society on which we depend by making the Catholic teachings and lifestyle accessible through modern media.
Divine Office's mission is to evangelize and to nurture our Catholic relationship with God by designing and offering content, software products, development, and design services for the Catholic community.
Divine Office's mission is to evangelize and to nurture our Catholic relationship with God by designing and offering content, software products, development, and design services for the Catholic community.
Sheeel.com
Sheeel.com is a Middle Eastern daily deal website with responsive design, offering a simple proposition: Amazing deals every day that are available for only 24 hours or until the product sells out (whichever comes first).
Digumz.com
The largest game rental store in the Middle East.
Theguardian Bookshop
https://bookshop.theguardian.com/Large scale Magento store with over 250,000 products.
Wow Wireless
Developed and configured a fresh site for Wow Wireless.
Perfume Price
Magento website for parfumeprice.net.
CosmicCart Magento module
Magento integration with popular CosmicCart service.
Magento Mobile How-To | Book
Authored and published a book on Magento development.
Education
2014 - 2014
Certified Solution Specialist in Magento
Magento U - https://u.magento.com/certification/directory/dev/571865/
2013 - 2013
Certified Developer Plus in Magento
Magento U - https://u.magento.com/certification/directory/dev/571865/
2012 - 2012
Certified Developer in Magento
Magento U - https://u.magento.com/certification/directory/dev/571865/
1993 - 1998
Technical High School Degree in Chemical Technology
Tehnološka škola Osijek - Osijek
Certifications
AUGUST 2014 - PRESENT
Magento Solution Specialist
Magento
SEPTEMBER 2013 - PRESENT
Magento Certified Developer Plus
Magento
OCTOBER 2012 - PRESENT
Magento Certified Developer
Magento
Skills
Libraries/APIs
PayPal API, jQuery
Tools
Flash
Languages
PHP 7, PHP, GraphQL, HTML5, XML, JavaScript, CSS3, CSS, HTML
Platforms
Magento 2, Magento, Magento 1, Magento API, WordPress, Joomla, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Frameworks
Symfony 2
Paradigms
REST
Storage
MySQL, Redis
Other
APIs, eCommerce, PayPal, Payment Gateways, Architecture, Full-stack, Server Configuration, Web Services, RESTful Web Services, Optimization
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