Valik Rudd, Developer in Post Falls, ID, United States
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Valik Rudd

WordPress Rescue Developer

Post Falls, ID, United States

Toptal member since September 15, 2016

Bio

Valik is a senior web developer with 20+ years of experience building, maintaining, and modernizing business-critical websites and web systems. He's skilled in WordPress, Shopify, HubSpot, custom PHP, Node.js, React, APIs, Zapier, migrations, and integrations. Valik helps companies connect their web, eCommerce, CRM, and automation tools, solve messy technical problems, and provide reliable long-term development support.

Portfolio

Freelance
jQuery, CSS, HTML, MySQL, WordPress, WordPress Theme Design, WordPress Plugins...
Secured Investment Corp.
MySQL, WordPress, Website Transfers, WordPress Rescue, WordPress Plugins...
Oxyfresh.com
Shopify, WordPress, WordPress Theme Design, WordPress Plugins, WordPress Rescue...

Experience

  • WordPress - 7 years
  • WordPress Rescue - 5 years
  • Website Transfers - 5 years
  • Integrations - 5 years
  • Keap - 4 years
  • Data Migration - 2 years
  • HubSpot - 1 year
  • HubSpot API - 1 year

Preferred Environment

Linux Servers, WordPress, PHP, WordPress Rescue, Integrations, Keap, HubSpot, APIs, Claude Code

The most amazing...

...thing I've created was a custom suite of scripts to migrate the client's business from Keap into HubSpot, contacts, orders, and more.

Work Experience

Freelance Web Developer

2007 - PRESENT
Freelance
  • Created custom WordPress themes and plugins for business clients and individuals.
  • Built custom PHP and MySQL-based utilities and applications.
  • Performed rescue operations on hacked and broken WordPress websites.
  • Designed beautiful UI and UX for websites for businesses and private clients.
  • Improved organic search engine positions for a window-tinting client by doing SEO work.
  • Customized a Shopify theme for a client and created landing pages.
  • Developed a custom WordPress theme for the network marketing community that allows easy customizations, landing pages, custom sales pages, and many more customization options from the theme's admin panel.
Technologies: jQuery, CSS, HTML, MySQL, WordPress, WordPress Theme Design, WordPress Plugins, WordPress Rescue, Website Transfers, JavaScript, Adobe Photoshop, APIs, Adobe Illustrator, Linux Servers, PHP, MySQLi, AWS IoT, Cloudflare, Clourflare workers, Integrations, Keap, HubSpot, Zapier, Stripe API, Data Migration

Lead Web Developer

2019 - 2026
Secured Investment Corp.
  • Developed an interactive viewing interface for video streaming of multi-day, all-day seminars and a producer management panel.
  • Maintained, repaired, and developed WordPress websites and landing pages.
  • Managed a team of developers who maintained an events management application and a portfolio of company websites.
  • Maintained company domains, DNS, and web hosting accounts. Performed webmaster duties.
  • Managed API connections and customer records in Infusionsoft (Keap).
  • Migrated company data from Keap to HubSpot, with over 600,000 contacts and over 100,000 orders. Handled data mapping and import stream design.
  • Maintained and built integrations with various 3rd-party services.
  • Managed AWS services, EC2, ECS, S3, RDS, etc. Set up and maintained servers and optimized costs.
Technologies: MySQL, WordPress, Website Transfers, WordPress Rescue, WordPress Plugins, JavaScript, Adobe Photoshop, WordPress Theme Design, APIs, Adobe Illustrator, Linux Servers, jQuery, PHP, CSS, HTML, Claude Code, HubSpot, Integrations, Keap, GitHub, AWS IoT

Web Designer | Developer

2015 - 2016
Oxyfresh.com
  • Transferred a website from an ancient custom-built system onto a WordPress front-end and Shopify for eCommerce.
  • Designed and developed a custom WordPress theme for the front-end corporate portion of the website.
  • Designed and customized a Shopify theme to match the corporate site.
  • Created a custom Shopify app scripts for manipulating the data and site performance over API.
  • Wrote custom code for editing the shopping cart behavior.
Technologies: Shopify, WordPress, WordPress Theme Design, WordPress Plugins, WordPress Rescue, Website Transfers, HTML5, MySQL, PHP, JavaScript, Shopify API, Adobe Photoshop, APIs, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Adobe Illustrator, Linux Servers, Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), jQuery, CSS, HTML, Site Speed Optimization

Web Designer

2012 - 2013
Market Vision Marketing
  • Designed new websites based on the WordPress platform for commercial clients.
  • Maintained existing websites for commercial clients.
  • Fixed errors and vulnerable websites and made them secure.
  • Improved on-site SEO of commercial clients' websites.
  • Helped the graphic designer with design work for web and print.
Technologies: WordPress, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, SEO Tools, Web Analytics, PHP, MySQL, WordPress Plugins, WordPress Rescue

Experience

Secured Investment Corp

I migrated company data from Keap (Infusionsoft) into HubSpot CRM. The migration included 5 years' worth of data, 600,000+ contacts, 300 products, 300,000+ orders, and 100,000+ payments.

The process required a design and build of custom utility scripts in PHP that will run on a schedule and import small batches of data at a time to prevent exceeding the API limits of both platforms.

This project took us over 6 months.

FundingTour.com

http://fundingtour.com
A custom-built event management system with an interactive Zoom meeting dashboard for viewers to interact with the presenter. The events management system is integrated and synced with "Event" custom objects in HubSpot.

The event management system is integrated into Zoom for meeting creation and management, as well as Zoom to HubSpot for attendance tracking.

Oxyfresh.com

Oxyfresh.com is a 30-year-old mail-order company that started its eCommerce when the internet first began. They had a custom-built system created ages ago that they have been tweaking over the years to adapt to the changes in technology.

In the last decade, their system had become obsolete, and they needed to move on to something modern.

I was hired as a consultant to find a solution for them that would fit their 30-year-old needs. After evaluating the top 10 eCommerce solutions, we settled on using a mix of WordPress and Shopify.

WordPress was used for the front-end, blog, and the corporate part of the website, and Shopify was used as the eCommerce solution.

I was the designer who designed the new look of the website, and the coder who created the custom WordPress theme for it. I also converted the site's design into a Shopify theme customized to match the main site.

The data migration was challenging and took about 45 days to complete. I ended up using a mix of existing Shopify apps and custom-built API utilities to migrate and manipulate 75,000+ customer records, about 300 products, and 300,000+ historical orders.

SpokaneHousePlans.com

http://spokanehouseplans.com
SpokaneHousePlans.com is an eCommerce website where you can browse through hundreds of house plans or search for specifics using an elaborate custom search form. This website was custom-designed and coded by me.

It is built on the WordPress platform and uses WooCommerce for eCommerce.

I started by designing the look of the website and then moved on to custom-coding the theme to look like the design I created.

Once the site was up and looking good, I installed a WooCommerce add-on to provide the necessary functionality.

Another thing that needed to be done was to allow the site owner to add custom information for each plan, such as square footage, bedrooms, bathrooms, and more. This was added using the post_meta function.

Additionally, I added a feature that allowed the website owner to upload a PDF that users could print by clicking the Print button.

It was time to add the cherry on top: the custom search ability. This was a challenging—but definitely fun—part of the entire project.

TrinityCross.com

http://TrinityCross.com
TrinityCross.com is a custom-built eCommerce website built on WordPress utilizing WooCommerce.

I custom-designed and coded the theme using PHP, CSS, and jQuery. I also added and maintained the products.

IMBTheme.com

IMBTheme.com is a custom WordPress theme that I built for the network marketing market. It allows the owner to fully customize the blog's look and create custom sales and opt-in pages directly from the theme's admin panel.

This began as an idea to create a theme for marketers that would have all the tools they need built in, without the need for external plugins.

I was contacted by Ty Tribble, the number one network marketing blogger at that time, and he asked if we could partner to make this theme better and focus it on network marketing needs.

This is when the new version of the IMBTheme was born. It has been sold to hundreds of bloggers and is now on hiatus because I no longer have time to support it.

Skills

Libraries/APIs

Shopify API, jQuery, HubSpot API, Stripe API

Tools

Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Zapier, Git, Claude Code, GitHub, Shopify Plus

Languages

HTML5, HTML, CSS, PHP, JavaScript, CSS3, Shopify Liquid

Platforms

WordPress Theme Design, WordPress, Shopify, HubSpot, AWS IoT

Paradigms

Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Scrum, Agile

Storage

MySQL, MySQLi

Frameworks

Symfony

Other

Website Transfers, WordPress Rescue, WordPress Plugins, APIs, Integrations, Keap, Data Mapping, Linux Servers, Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), SEO Tools, Web Analytics, Site Speed Optimization, Cloudflare, Clourflare workers, Data Migration

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