Igor Benic
Verified Expert in Engineering
WordPress Developer
Rijeka, Croatia
Toptal member since November 27, 2016
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
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
Work Experience
Web Developer
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.
Front-end Developer and Designer
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.
WordPress Developer
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.
Project History
Simple Giveaways
https://wordpress.org/plugins/giveasap/Simple Sponsorships
Bookcoverpedia
Live Scores for SportsPress
https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/live-scores-for-sportspress/Education
Master's Degree in Marine Electronic Engineering and Information Technology
Faculty of Maritime Studies Rijeka - Rijeka, Croatia
Bachelor's Degree in Marine Electronic Engineering and Information Technology
Faculty of Maritime Studies Rijeka - Rijeka, Croatia
Skills
Libraries/APIs
WordPress API, REST APIs, jQuery, Braintree API, PayPal API, Stripe API, React, LINQ, Facebook API, X (formerly Twitter) API, Salesforce API
Tools
Adobe Photoshop, Sublime Text 2, Gutenberg Editor, Git, Sublime Text
Languages
PHP, CSS, Sass, HTML, JavaScript, Less, CSS3, HTML5, C#, Transact-SQL (T-SQL)
Paradigms
Responsive, Responsive Web Design (RWD)
Platforms
WordPress, WooCommerce, Windows, HubSpot, MacOS
Frameworks
Bootstrap 3, ASP.NET
Storage
MySQL, WP Engine, Databases
Other
WordPress Plugins, PSD to WordPress, WordPress Themes, Data Migration, Web Development, WordPress Migration, Payment APIs, WordPress Design, Full-stack Development, Design, Programming, Electronics, Gravity Forms
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