Amol Vhankalas, Developer in Pune, Maharashtra, India
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Amol Vhankalas

Verified Expert  in Engineering

WordPress Developer

Pune, Maharashtra, India

Toptal member since November 3, 2020

Expertise
GitHubWordPress DevelopmentCSSJavaScriptPHPjQueryReact.jsBootstrapUbuntuMacOSWooCommerce Development
Bio

Amol has a decade of experience in website and web application development. He has created WordPress themes and plugins from scratch for a variety of requirements. Amol frequently suggests using existing WordPress core features to fulfill a task, loves exploring UI frameworks like Angular and React, and contributing to WordPress core in free time.

Portfolio

Lumina Networks
React, WordPress
Boostmychild
AngularJS, PM2, Express.js, Node.js, Ubuntu, React
WPoets
WordPress Themes, WordPress Plugins, WordPress, jQuery, Databases, PHP, MySQL...

Experience

  • CSS - 9 years
  • HTML - 9 years
  • JavaScript - 8 years
  • WordPress - 6 years
  • PHP - 6 years
  • React - 4 years
  • WooCommerce - 4 years
  • WooCommerce API - 4 years

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Mail, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Slack App, MacOS, React, React Redux, JavaScript

The most amazing...

...thing I've developed was a marketplace for a restaurant using WooCommerce so users can order online—this brought the online business from zero to hero.

Work Experience

Web UI Developer

2018 - 2020
Lumina Networks
  • Contributed to a different product's user interface built using React.
  • Integrated a D3 network graph in React app to view network topologies.
  • Created new templates and plugins to extend WooCommerce features for the Lumina WordPress website.
Technologies: React, WordPress

Software Architect

2016 - 2020
Boostmychild
  • Created the project architecture, used AngularJS for the front end, and Express.js to write API running on the node server.
  • Installed WordPress in a subfolder for the Boostmychild blogs.
  • Supported the first phase and second phase launch, which includes hybrid mobile application built in Ionic, an admin portal, and the website.
Technologies: AngularJS, PM2, Express.js, Node.js, Ubuntu, React

Technical Team Lead

2013 - 2014
WPoets
  • Developed WordPress themes and plugins from scratch.
  • Managed the team delivering WordPress solutions in different domains.
  • Supported the team to fix technical issues and code reviews.
Technologies: WordPress Themes, WordPress Plugins, WordPress, jQuery, Databases, PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript

Experience

Lumina Networks

• Built the Lumina Networks website.
• Set up downloadable products using WooCommerce with downloads secured using AWS S3 and the WooCommerce Memberships plugin.
• Did maintenance, fixed performance issues, and created new pages.
• Converted Photoshop design to WordPress templates.

Online Ordering Website and Client App to Print Orders

https://bombaybliss.com
A WordPress multisite and separate WooCommerce-based store set up for each restaurant location so customers can order food online. All orders get synced to the client's Angular app running on localhost at each location for further processing, receipt printing, etc.

Boostmychild

https://www.boostmychild.com/
• Set up the project architecture using Node.js and Express.js.
• Set up WordPress in a sub-directory for the blog.
• Created an admin dashboard using AngularJS consuming API running on a node server using PM2.

Jagoinvestor

https://www.jagoinvestor.com/
Helped to migrate server, completed a fresh WordPress set up, and imported old data posts and pages in a new setup. Updated plugins compatible with version 3.7.4. Removed old code and customized the theme using a child theme.

Education

2008 - 2010

Master of Computer Applications Degree in Computer Science

Pune University - Pune, India

Skills

Libraries/APIs

React, jQuery, jQuery UI, React Redux, WooCommerce API, WordPress REST API, Node.js

Tools

GitHub, PM2

Languages

HTML, PHP, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, SQL

Platforms

WordPress, WooCommerce, MacOS, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Ubuntu

Frameworks

Bootstrap, Angular, Express.js, AngularJS

Storage

MySQL, Databases

Other

User Interface (UI), Web UI, WordPress Plugins, WordPress Themes

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