Alejandro Giraldo
Verified Expert in Engineering
eCommerce Developer
Medellín - Antioquia, Colombia
Toptal member since October 14, 2019
Alejandro is a full-stack web developer with more than a decade of experience. Over these years, he has been involved in several projects that he has designed and developed from scratch. Several of them have become a big success online. Being passionate about code and entrepreneurship, he embraces the ideas of his clients as if they were his own and work hard until the client is satisfied.
Portfolio
Experience
- PHP 7 - 10 years
- eCommerce - 10 years
- WooCommerce - 7 years
- Shopify - 6 years
- CodeIgniter - 5 years
- API Development - 3 years
Availability
Preferred Environment
Git, Postman, DBeaver, Sublime Text, MacOS
The most amazing...
...thing I've created is an API that has handled over 5 million requests. The client websites connect to my API and this makes the integration with several CRMs.
Work Experience
WordPress & Shopify Developer
Gold, LLC
- Developed the blog for a huge e-games tournament company.
- Acted as SEO on page development for this specific blog site.
- Worked on pixel-perfect design and developing new layouts over the Elementor theme.
- Integrate Shopify capabilities.
Senior PHP Developer and eCommerce Websites Leader (Shopify)
KnowFully Learning Group
- Performed integrations with several CRMs, such as Microsoft Dynamics CRM.
- Connected unified pixel manager using a Shopify installation to serve ten client websites.
- Worked on integration of different sites to the company architecture.
Senior PHP Developer (Shopify)
InteliClic
- Developed an API that worked as a proxy for several web clients connecting these ones with several CRMs. This was created with Laravel.
- Created a back-end API for a mobile and web application done in pure PHP, including a cloud version of a very custom quiz for the final client.
- Built the foundation of a very big application made in Laravel, which manages the whole structure of a healthcare company.
- Configured a continuous integration system for several of the projects in the company.
- Helped to improve a cloud-based CMS built before in the company.
IT Consultant
Resolute Creative
- Improved a very custom Drupal's module for a huge diodes company. This module used to have its own API, handled around 200+ categories of products, and 5,000+ products.
- Fixed several issues in a huge WordPress website that sell songs for kids.
- Improved a CodeIgniter application created for a company that sells mansion and commercial doors.
Chief Technology Officer
Permalink Group
- Developed a WordPress website for a breast cancer foundation in New York.
- Created a WordPress theme and plugin for the company which handles the audio for big tv shows in the USA.
- Built a WordPress site for Colombian coffee growers corporation.
- Created the WordPress website for the biggest fashion police in Colombia.
- Managed a team of two people that used to work alongside me on several of the company projects.
WordPress Developer
Sacred Media
- Created, from scratch, a framework of widgets and shortcodes for a very big self improve course built with WordPress.
- Developed a WordPress website for a summer weight loss summit made with WordPress.
- Configured application servers in DigitalOcean for several of the company websites.
- Created and integrated the affiliate system for their marketing group built with WordPress.
Experience
Swipecast Edition
Ednet.net
The plugin integrated the solution with an internal application which gave clients access to a membership plan with some private information.
This company has big contracts with tv series and movie developer companies.
Berkeley County Chamber of Commerce
Doors Online
The website has features that allow users to create quotations and make payments on desired doors. It has a very customized backend system, where the whole company sales process is managed in that system
Superhumanos.com
I did create the website and architected the course system that is still used today. Made with WordPress and a very long shortcode framework used to create the whole front end.
Tuatu.com
WordPress development and WooCommerce integration.
Caferetiro.com
https://caferetiro.com/WordPress development and WooCommerce integration.
Codesalonsf.com
http://codesalonsf.comI stepped in to rescue the project after the previous developer ceased making updates and became unavailable. Some changes were cosmetic, while others addressed issues with specific customized modules.
Diodes.com
http://diodes.comThis company boasts over 7,000 products across approximately 300 categories and developed a custom module to manage sales and inventory for their Asian market.
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Systems Engineering
Universidad de Antioquia - Medellin, Colombia
Skills
Libraries/APIs
jQuery, API Development, Drupal Modules, WordPress REST API, Facebook API, BuddyPress, Drupal API
Tools
Adobe Fireworks, WP-CLI, Drush, GitHub, Photoshop CS5, AWS SDK, Varnish, Gutenberg Editor, Beanstalk, Google Analytics, Sublime Text, Postman, Git, Jenkins, Webpack
Languages
PHP, HTML, CSS, PHP 7, PHP 5, JavaScript, Ruby, Bash Script, Python 2, Python 3, C#
Frameworks
AngularJS, Lumen, Laravel 5, CodeIgniter, CodeIgniter 3, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Ionic 2, Ionic 4, Twig, Django, Ionic, Angular
Paradigms
Agile Software Development, Responsive Web Design (RWD)
Platforms
WooCommerce, WordPress, Linux, DigitalOcean, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Drupal 7, Drupal 8, Shopify, MacOS, Ubuntu, Drupal
Storage
MySQL, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, DBeaver
Industry Expertise
Web Design
Other
Full-stack, MVC Frameworks, WordPress Plugins, WordPress Themes, Pixel Perfect, Responsive Design, eCommerce, APIs, User Interface (UI), User Experience (UX), Google SEO, WordPress Design, Plugins, Integration, Web Accessibility
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