Jerico Aragon
Verified Expert in Engineering
PHP Developer
Manila, NCR, Philippines
Toptal member since November 27, 2016
Jerico is an AWS-certified cloud engineer (solutions architect professional, DevOps engineer professional) with 4+ years of hands-on DevOps and site reliability experience. He specializes in WordPress, AWS, and scalable cloud infrastructure, with expertise in Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD. Active WordPress contributor with 5,000+ hours delivering high-quality solutions on Toptal.
Portfolio
Experience
- WordPress - 7 years
- PHP - 7 years
- WordPress API - 6 years
- JavaScript - 6 years
- System Administration - 5 years
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) - 4 years
- Terraform - 3 years
- DevOps - 3 years
Preferred Environment
Git, Vim Text Editor, MacOS, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Linux
The most amazing...
...thing was adapting across full-stack development and cloud engineering, quickly delivering results in WordPress, Laravel, AWS, and DevOps.
Work Experience
Cloud Engineer
Human Made
- Maintained Altis DXP, an AWS-hosted enterprise WordPress platform serving billions of HTTP requests each year across dedicated customer environments.
- Handled on-call incident response across EC2, ECS, RDS, ElastiCache, CloudFront, and CloudWatch to keep customer sites reliable.
- Improved infrastructure automation with Terraform and CloudFormation, making changes easier to review, repeat, and operate safely.
Web Development Consultant
Freelance Work
- Provided technical expertise on web development-related projects for private and government organizations.
- Planned, coordinated, and handled from end-to-end product implementation.
Senior Full-stack Web Developer
Instinctive Drives
- Supported our in-house SaaS offering. It's built on AngularJS and .NET tech stack. It is used by more than 300,000 registered users.
- Managed servers of our whole technology stack; it's a mix of Windows and Linux machines.
- Composed maintenance scripts to minimize downtime.
- Built internal tools to help support our existing clients. This included building a custom Outlook plugin to further utilize our SaaS offering.
Web Developer
LiftMedia
- Created landing pages for clients with a short amount of turnaround time.
- Developed membership sites from the ground up that's integrated with the client's CRM.
- Ran Facebook Ads to funnel traffic to a client's landing page.
Solutions Architect
Netfluence Corporation
- Gathered and comprehended business requirements and its translation to technical specifications.
- Scoped the project, provided recommendations, and did the actual implementation of the software itself.
Senior PHP/WordPress Developer
Design Fluent
- Handled the full-stack development of Design Fluent’s client websites.
- Converted complex designs to a fully-functional WordPress site that can be handed-over to the client.
- Developed custom plugins and functionalities as required by the project.
Senior Front-end Web Developer
Larventech
- Developed the front end of Larventech's in-house products.
- Coded the product itself, accompanied by its landing pages and newsletters.
- Collaborated closely with back-end developers and designers to implement functionalities across multiple products.
Experience
Front-end Developer for Kajabi
HubSpot Developer
HubSpot Developer
WordPress Developer with D3 Experience
Cloud Engineer | DevOps for WordPress
WordPress Developer for Membership Platform
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Multimedia Arts
Mapúa Institute of Technology - Manila, Philippines
Certifications
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Eskwelabs Data Science Fellow
Eskwelabs
Skills
Libraries/APIs
WordPress API, HTML5 Canvas, jQuery, React, D3.js, BuddyPress
Tools
Apache, HubSpot COS, Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), Memberium, PhpStorm, Adobe Photoshop, Vim Text Editor, Git, WPML, Infusionsoft, Claude, Claude Code, Stylus, Sketch, Adobe Illustrator, Google Analytics, Terraform, LearnDash, AWS CloudFormation, GitLab CI/CD
Languages
HTML5, CSS3, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, PHP, Java, Sass, Less, TypeScript
Platforms
WooCommerce, Apache2, WordPress, Amazon Web Services (AWS), AWS Lambda, Shopify, HubSpot, Linux, MacOS, Kajabi, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), LEMP, Docker, Kubernetes
Storage
WP Engine, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), MySQL, Redis, PostgreSQL
Frameworks
Laravel, AngularJS, .NET, Divi
Paradigms
Agile Software Development, DevOps
Other
WordPress Plugins, Learning Management Systems (LMS), CSS3 Animation, Graphic Design, Digital Marketing, Front-end, System Administration, HubSpot Development, Cursor AI, Data Science, Ads, Google Tag Manager, Game Programming, Web Development, HubSpot CRM, CI/CD Pipelines, GitHub Actions
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