Yagnik Sangani, Developer in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
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Yagnik Sangani

Bio

Yagnik is a senior full-stack WordPress developer with 10+ years of experience building scalable websites, WooCommerce platforms, and custom web solutions. He specializes in transforming complex business requirements into reliable, high-performing products. Known for his problem-solving mindset and attention to quality, Yagnik helps clients deliver exceptional digital experiences that scale.

Portfolio

Independent Consultant (Freelance)
Artificial Intelligence (AI), Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), API Integration...
BuddyBoss
WordPress, PHP, JavaScript, React, MySQL, WooCommerce...
TwoWheelTrader
WordPress, PHP, JavaScript, MySQL, WooCommerce, Advanced Custom Fields (ACF)...

Experience

  • PHP - 10 years
  • WordPress - 10 years
  • WooCommerce - 10 years
  • JavaScript - 10 years
  • React - 4 years

Preferred Environment

Windows, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), WordPress, WooCommerce, Sublime Text, Postman, Linux, Trello, Asana, GitHub

The most amazing...

...achievement in my career was building a WordPress plugin adopted by thousands of users worldwide.

Work Experience

Full-stack WordPress Developer

2024 - PRESENT
Independent Consultant (Freelance)
  • Managed and maintained multiple WordPress websites, handling ongoing development, customization, and support tickets while ensuring high uptime and smooth client operations.
  • Developed and customized WordPress plugins and themes, implementing tailored functionality to meet client requirements and improve overall user experience.
  • Improved website performance, security, and stability by executing speed optimizations, resolving technical issues, and applying regular security fixes across production sites.
Technologies: Artificial Intelligence (AI), Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), API Integration, Asana, Amazon Web Services (AWS), HTML5, CSS3, WordPress, WooCommerce, WordPress Plugins, React, JavaScript, MySQL, Gutenberg Block Development, PHP, REST APIs

WordPress Back-end Developer

2022 - 2024
BuddyBoss
  • Managed various BuddyBoss website projects simultaneously.
  • Addressed and resolved support tickets proactively.
  • Spearheaded the development of new WordPress sites.
  • Executed WooCommerce customization and ran campaigns successfully.
  • Collaborated closely with front-end developers to launch new pages and campaigns seamlessly.
  • Customized eCommerce solutions for online businesses using WooCommerce plugin integration.
  • Optimized website loading speeds by carefully evaluating installed plugins and efficient use of caching mechanisms.
  • Reduced page load times with efficient coding practices and optimization of images, scripts, and stylesheets.
  • Developed user-friendly admin panels for easy content management, which resulted in increased productivity for clients.
Technologies: WordPress, PHP, JavaScript, React, MySQL, WooCommerce, Gutenberg Block Development, Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), REST APIs, API Integration, HTML5, CSS3, Tailwind CSS, TypeScript, Git, Docker, AWS IoT, Performance Optimization, Core Web Vitals, Full-stack Development, Payment Gateways, Database Design, WordPress API, WordPress Themes, WordPress Plugins, Amazon Web Services (AWS), APIs, Artificial Intelligence (AI), SQL, Zapier, Asana, Trello, Linux, Postman, GitHub, Sublime Text

WordPress Developer (via Toptal)

2023 - 2023
TwoWheelTrader
  • Integrated Plaid bank verification and link widget on the front page for a seamless user experience.
  • Generated distinct Plaid API codes for customer-specific data retrieval.
  • Developed a custom shortcode for users to showcase all Plaid connection-related information on the front end.
  • Customized WordPress to display back-end information on the user edit profile page.
  • Resolved CSS issues for the Plaid integration page and back-end information section.
Technologies: WordPress, PHP, JavaScript, MySQL, WooCommerce, Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), API Integration, HTML5, CSS3, Docker, Performance Optimization, Core Web Vitals, Payment Gateways, WordPress API, WordPress Themes, WordPress Plugins, APIs, SQL, Linux, Sublime Text

WordPress Developer (via Toptal)

2023 - 2023
9424-7285 Québec Inc.
  • Updated the plugins and removed unwanted plugins that were not being used.
  • Added new products in WooCommerce and fixed WooCommerce checkout shipping zone issue.
  • Performed content changes, image edits, image replacement, and other things to maintain a website.
  • Worked on bug fixing, giving suggestions to the client, and researching new features.
Technologies: WordPress, JavaScript, MySQL, WooCommerce, Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), API Integration, HTML5, CSS3, Git, Docker, Performance Optimization, Core Web Vitals, Payment Gateways, WordPress API, WordPress Themes, WordPress Plugins, APIs, SQL, Linux, Sublime Text

Senior WordPress Developer

2020 - 2022
Creole Studios
  • Developed custom plugins and themes as per the client's requirements.
  • Optimized the websites and fixed issues. Conducted WordPress project development, project management, and project execution.
  • Handled a team of 3 – 4 developers, managed the projects from beginning to end, assigned and managed daily routine tasks for the team, and sent the project progress report to the client daily via email and client communication via chat and call.
  • Held interviews for the WordPress developer position.
  • Developed WooCommerce projects, theme-based projects, and custom functionality-based projects.
  • Learned the basics of React and created a custom Gutenberg block.
  • Communicated with clients and provided time estimations for WordPress projects and tasks.
Technologies: PHP, WordPress, JavaScript, React, MySQL, WooCommerce, Gutenberg Block Development, Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), REST APIs, API Integration, HTML5, CSS3, Git, AWS IoT, Performance Optimization, Core Web Vitals, Headless WordPress, Full-stack Development, Payment Gateways, Database Design, WordPress API, WordPress Themes, WordPress Plugins, Amazon Web Services (AWS), APIs, Artificial Intelligence (AI), SQL, Zapier, Asana, Trello, Linux, Postman, GitHub, Sublime Text

Senior WordPress Developer

2018 - 2019
Huptech Web
  • Managed and executed the project. Tasked with understanding and assigning to team members. Helped team members to finish the tasks if they got stuck. Did daily scrum meetings with the team to assign new tasks and take updates on running tasks.
  • Identified issues, analyzed information, and provided solutions to problems.
  • Learned WooCommerce customization and development and handled multiple projects simultaneously.
  • Worked on Laravel MVC framework project for around five months.
Technologies: PHP, WordPress, JavaScript, MySQL, WooCommerce, Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), REST APIs, API Integration, HTML5, CSS3, Git, Performance Optimization, Core Web Vitals, Full-stack Development, Payment Gateways, Database Design, WordPress API, WordPress Themes, WordPress Plugins, APIs, SQL, Linux, GitHub, Sublime Text

Junior PHP WordPress Developer

2017 - 2018
E2m
  • Learned and handled Concrete CMS and API integration and customization.
  • Conducted theme and plugin customization and development in WordPress.
  • Helped team members with fixing issues and guided them.
Technologies: PHP, WordPress, JavaScript, MySQL, WooCommerce, Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), API Integration, HTML5, CSS3, Git, Performance Optimization, Core Web Vitals, Payment Gateways, Database Design, WordPress API, WordPress Themes, WordPress Plugins, APIs, SQL, Linux, GitHub, Sublime Text

Junior PHP WordPress Developer

2016 - 2017
eSparkBiz
  • Received training in HTML, CSS, jQuery, MySQL, PHP, CodeIgniter, and WordPress.
  • Developed general custom themes to use in projects.
  • Executed many WordPress projects from scratch within the team.
Technologies: PHP, WordPress, JavaScript, MySQL, WooCommerce, Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), API Integration, HTML5, CSS3, Performance Optimization, Core Web Vitals, Payment Gateways, Database Design, WordPress API, WordPress Themes, WordPress Plugins, APIs, SQL, Linux, GitHub, Sublime Text

Experience

Handyguy

Handyguy is a family-owned company established in 2008 to provide you with top-quality home service professionals. The company helps people looking for home services such as painting, electrical installations, and plumbing. Handyguy uses a formalized process to find contractors for their needs and help with the best home improvement contractor recommendations.

Handyguy discussed the requirements with my organization, Creole Studios, to add additional functionality to the website. The client hired a team of dedicated developers to customize the website for improved user experience and interface. I acted as a lead developer in this project.

The current website was not working as per the client’s requirements as it needed to be more functional. The client wanted to create a website with numerous functionalities as a website was on WordPress. Finding his website old-fashioned, the founder of Handyguy asked our team to modernize the website for clients and contractors. The timely calls and meetings with project management tools helped their internal team to understand the progress.

Youth Arch Foundation

Youth Arch Foundation is an organization that focuses on the development of youth. They encourage young talents to contribute to society by participating in various community activities. They organize annual awards ceremonies for promising school students, including the Hong Kong Outstanding Students Awards (HKOSA) and Youth Arch Student Improvement Award (YASIA). They recognize deserving candidates and explore leadership potential for various award categories by organizing a wide range of activities and community services. They aim to provide a platform for the youth where they can interact, learn, and support each other. They focus all-round development of the students in terms of educational, personal, life, and career developments.

The entire Youth Arch web portal is divided into two main modules—HKOSA and YASIA. Student users have access to HKOSA, whereas marker and school users have access to both HKOSA and YASIA modules. There is also an admin module to govern all the other modules and features in the system.

I acted as the lead developer in this project, working on the complex logic and initial project setup and managing the project. I helped the team and guided them to perform the modules or tasks in this project.

The Energy Year

The Energy Year website was restructured with different interactive widgets, news and articles, a calendar, and upcoming events. The landing page contains an auto-updating widget that displays the statistics of commodities, stocks, indices, and forex. For the markets page, country-specific content like news, facts and figures, maps, and books published in countries where they have a presence is displayed.

The upcoming events section contains two options: users can add the event date to their calendar and visit their website. Users can filter the results by the type of content, regions, and countries and the search option allows them to search within those filtered results. The news and features pages were restructured, and a section of the most popular articles was added to both pages. Tags can be added to any news article or any other post when it is published from the back end of the system. These tags are helpful when a user searches for any keyword, and the algorithm fetches the relevant content from the whole website based on the searched keyword and displays the results.

I worked on this project as a senior WordPress developer, managed the project, and executed the project in a team.

WooCommerce Order PDF Download

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wc-order-pdf-download/
I created this WooCommerce plugin available on the WordPress Plugin Directory.

This WooCommerce extension generates a PDF invoice for your WooCommerce orders. Admin can download order PDF from the order admin page, and customers can download order PDF from my account page.

FEATURES
• One-click PDF download.
• Download the PDF invoice from the order admin page.
• Download invoices from the account page.
• Use the hook to add new order items to the PDF table.

CTA Section Custom Block

https://wordpress.org/plugins/cta-section-custom-gb-block/
I created a plugin that's now available on the WordPress Plugin Directory.

This custom Gutenberg block is used for adding calls to action to user pages.

FEATURES
• Users can create a custom call to action section using this block.
• Users can set a background image, title, and description in this block.
• Many options are available to style this section.

Morsh Golf

Updated the plugins and removed unwanted plugins which were not being used. Added new products in WooCommerce and fixed WooCommerce checkout shipping zone issue. Performed content changes, image edits, image replacement, and other things to maintain a website. Worked on bug fixing, giving suggestions to the client, and researching new features.

TwoWheelTrader

Integrated Plaid bank verification and link widget on the front page for a seamless user experience. Generated distinct Plaid API codes for customer-specific data retrieval. Developed a custom shortcode for users to showcase all Plaid connection-related information on the front end. Customized WordPress to display back-end information on the user edit profile page. Resolved CSS issues for the Plaid integration page and back-end information section.

Education

2012 - 2016

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering

Gujarat Technological University - Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

Certifications

JULY 2021 - PRESENT

LinkedIn Skill Assessment Badge | WordPress, PHP, CSS, jQuery, and JavaScript

LinkedIn

Skills

Libraries/APIs

WordPress API, React, REST APIs

Tools

Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), Git, Zapier, Sublime Text, GitHub, Postman, Trello, Asana

Languages

PHP, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, SQL, TypeScript

Platforms

WordPress, WooCommerce, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Docker, AWS IoT, Linux

Storage

MySQL

Paradigms

Database Design

Frameworks

Tailwind CSS

Other

Gutenberg Block Development, API Integration, Performance Optimization, Core Web Vitals, Headless WordPress, Full-stack Development, Payment Gateways, WordPress Themes, WordPress Plugins, APIs, Artificial Intelligence (AI)

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