Igor Benic, Developer in Rijeka, Croatia
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Igor Benic

Bio

Igor has more than six years of experience developing WordPress themes, plugins, and custom solutions. With his experience as a front-end developer, he builds optimized and responsive sites with a focus on page speed and size.

Portfolio

StayNTouch
HubSpot, Less, jQuery, JavaScript, CSS3, HTML5, PHP, WordPress, WooCommerce...
Multilink
Bootstrap 3, Transact-SQL (T-SQL), jQuery, JavaScript, WordPress, CSS3, HTML5...
D-Faktor
jQuery, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, MySQL, PHP, WordPress, Data Migration...

Experience

  • WordPress - 9 years
  • Adobe Photoshop - 7 years
  • WooCommerce - 7 years
  • jQuery - 6 years
  • MySQL - 6 years
  • Sublime Text 2 - 5 years
  • HTML5 - 4 years
  • CSS3 - 4 years

Preferred Environment

Adobe Photoshop, Sublime Text, Git, MacOS

The most amazing...

...solution I have created is a custom eCommerce WordPress solution for selling book covers.

Work Experience

Web Developer

2016 - PRESENT
StayNTouch
  • Wrote HTML5 and CSS3 for complex application screens.
  • Designed application screens for a SaaS that uses JavaScript and Ruby.
  • Built a YouTube API framework to handle videos on modals and as background videos.
  • Implemented HubSpot Forms in WordPress with custom flows.
  • Optimized WordPress site for page loading and increased visitor retention.
  • Wrote JavaScript so that we can fill the HubSpot contact form with Facebook data.
  • Implemented new designs for the site in WordPress.
Technologies: HubSpot, Less, jQuery, JavaScript, CSS3, HTML5, PHP, WordPress, WooCommerce, WordPress Plugins, Data Migration, Web Development, WordPress Migration, Payment APIs, Stripe API, PSD to WordPress, WordPress Themes, CSS, WordPress API, Sass, Braintree API, Facebook API, PayPal API, Responsive Web Design (RWD), Sublime Text 2, X (formerly Twitter) API

Front-end Developer and Designer

2013 - 2016
Multilink
  • Created responsive websites on top of a custom CMS.
  • Developed custom T-SQL queries to get the data from the database.
  • Made LINQ iterations on lists populated by data from the database.
  • Configured simple WordPress sites for smaller clients to manage veterinary and similar websites.
  • Architected the database for every site that I built.
  • Created database entities from the custom CMS and managed to optimize the load by reducing page load by 80%.
  • Migrated sites from development to demo to production.
Technologies: Bootstrap 3, Transact-SQL (T-SQL), jQuery, JavaScript, WordPress, CSS3, HTML5, LINQ, C#, ASP.NET, WordPress Plugins, Data Migration, Web Development, PSD to WordPress, WordPress Themes, CSS, WordPress API, Sass, Windows, PayPal API, Responsive Web Design (RWD), Sublime Text 2, X (formerly Twitter) API

WordPress Developer

2012 - 2012
D-Faktor
  • Designed and developed custom WordPress themes.
  • Created custom plugins.
  • Integrated WordPress with a custom Groupon CMS.
  • Implemented and refactored the design in a custom CMS.
Technologies: jQuery, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, MySQL, PHP, WordPress, Data Migration, Web Development, PSD to WordPress, WordPress Themes, Responsive Web Design (RWD)

Experience

Simple Giveaways

https://wordpress.org/plugins/giveasap/
I created a WordPress plugin that creates simple giveaways to grow the email list. Make it extensible using WordPress Plugin API (Actions and filters), and thus enabling the development of custom integrations.

Simple Sponsorships

http://www.wpsimplesponsorships.com/
A WordPress plugin to provide a complete solution of managing sponsors.

Bookcoverpedia

I built this custom WordPress eCommerce solution for selling book covers.

Live Scores for SportsPress

https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/live-scores-for-sportspress/
An extension that provides a way to manage live results for the WordPress plugin SportsPress.

Education

2011 - 2013

Master's Degree in Marine Electronic Engineering and Information Technology

Faculty of Maritime Studies Rijeka - Rijeka, Croatia

2008 - 2011

Bachelor's Degree in Marine Electronic Engineering and Information Technology

Faculty of Maritime Studies Rijeka - Rijeka, Croatia

Skills

Libraries/APIs

jQuery, WordPress API, Braintree API, PayPal API, Stripe API, LINQ, Facebook API, X (formerly Twitter) API

Tools

Adobe Photoshop, Sublime Text 2, Git, Sublime Text

Languages

CSS, Sass, PHP, HTML, JavaScript, Less, CSS3, HTML5, C#, Transact-SQL (T-SQL)

Platforms

WordPress, WooCommerce, Windows, HubSpot, MacOS

Frameworks

Bootstrap 3, ASP.NET

Paradigms

Responsive Web Design (RWD)

Storage

MySQL, Databases

Other

PSD to WordPress, WordPress Themes, Data Migration, Web Development, WordPress Migration, Payment APIs, WordPress Plugins, Programming, Electronics

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