
Ben Eelen
Verified Expert in Engineering
WordPress Developer
Hamme, Belgium
Toptal member since October 28, 2021
Ben is a web developer dedicated to helping brands and businesses deliver better-designed products and captivating user experiences. With over 17 years of experience in designing and building digital products across various industries, he helps marketers and business owners create more value for their businesses by delivering people-first digital experiences.
Portfolio
Experience
- HTML5 - 15 years
- User Interface (UI) - 15 years
- PHP - 12 years
- WordPress - 12 years
- Front-end - 10 years
- Sass - 10 years
- jQuery - 8 years
- User Experience (UX) - 8 years
Availability
Preferred Environment
Visual Studio Code (VS Code), WordPress, Cursor AI, Figma, ACF PRO, Astro
The most amazing...
...custom editor I've developed allows the creation of artwork engraved on wooden planks. It was used for an art installation at the world's largest EDM festival.
Work Experience
UI/UX Designer | WordPress Developer
Thinc
- Built a full website on Hubspot COS (CMS) for a marketing agency.
- Developed multiple websites on WordPress CMS with custom, tailor-made themes and plugins. Custom-made block themes.
- Designed modern user interfaces for eCommerce websites to sell car accessories. These were four different websites, each for a specific car brand belonging to the same group.
- Handled custom web and app development using Strapi CMS, Astro, Supabase, Vercel, and Svelte.
- Created minisites and landing pages for multiple clients using Astro, Astro DB, Vercel/Netlify, and custom form integrations.
- Developed a calendar and resource management system on WordPress CMS for an event agency to manage and keep track of product stock and availability for their field events. This also included after-event reporting with PDF and XLS exports.
- Programmed a user management tool, similar to a CRM, for a market research company. It enabled them to manage their user base and create surveys on WordPress CMS.
- Designed multiple modern user interfaces for various clients.
- Used Node.js to develop a website for the largest media publishers in Belgium.
- Worked on information architecture, wireframes, and UX design on multiple projects.
Digital Manager | Web Developer
MAC21
- Developed and maintained multiple websites for clients in a wide range of industries.
- Managed various web design and development projects.
- Developed a custom eCommerce website with an integrated editor to create custom designs engraved on wooden slates and used in a permanent art installation for the world's largest EDM festival.
Web Developer
MSC Medlog
- Developed a new functionality and screens for a cargo container tracking application.
- Fixed multiple bugs and uncompleted features for a cargo container tracking application.
- Maintained and tested a cargo container tracking application.
Web Developer | UI and Interaction Designer
Verso Europe
- Developed four minisites for a financial institution to highlight the different products and services they provided.
- Developed extra functionality and improvements for an in-house custom CMS written in Adobe Flash to create, edit, and manage full Flash websites.
- Developed functionality for a custom sales presentation software that included asset management written in Flash.
- Developed a custom website for international travelers that want to get a newspaper or magazine from their home country. Used a mobile website and GPS location to find newsstands where they sell the newspaper or the magazine they are searching for.
Graphic Designer
AIM Productions
- Created graphical assets for a mobile device video game.
- Designed 3D models with different states for a mobile video game.
- Created graphical assets for a cycling simulator video game.
Experience
Boagworld—Website Rebuild
https://www.boagworld.comAuvik—Website Rebuild
https://www.auvik.comWhitedreams Invest—Real Estate Website
https://www.whitedreamsinvest.comSEO was a big priority from the start, so another part of the project was developing a custom SEO-optimized faceted filter plugin for the property listing pages.
Royal Botania | Luxury Garden Furniture
https://www.royalbotania.com/Earlyfeed | Young Animal Nutrition
https://earlyfeednutrition.com/CEFIC | User Interface Design
Agrimprove | Animal Feed and Nutrition
https://www.agrimprove.com/INVE | Aquaculture Website
https://www.inveaquaculture.com/ELD Architects
https://eld.be/Car Accessory | Webshop Redesign
Website for a Marketing Agency
https://thom.be/Debugging and Performance Optimization for a Bank
Optimizations and Changes for an Online Magazine
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Multimedia and Creative Technologies
Howest University of Applied Sciences - Kortrijk, Belgium
Bachelor's Degree in Electronics ICT
Thomas More University of Applied Sciences - Geel, Belgium
Skills
Libraries/APIs
jQuery, WordPress REST API, WooCommerce API, WordPress API, REST APIs, Node.js
Tools
Adobe Experience Design (XD), Photoshop CC, Illustrator CC, Gulp, Adobe Photoshop, HubSpot COS, Gutenberg Editor, Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), Google Analytics, Flash, Adobe Flash, NPM, Figma, Modo, Git, ACF PRO, Astro
Languages
PHP, JavaScript, CSS, HTML5, Sass, CSS3, HTML, Timber, HubL, SCSS, PHP 5, PHP 7
Frameworks
Twig, Adobe Flex, Tailwind CSS, Flex
Paradigms
Web UI Design, UX Design, UI Design, Responsive Web Design (RWD), Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
Platforms
Visual Studio Code (VS Code), WordPress, WordPress Theme Design, WooCommerce, Drupal, HubSpot, Windows Server, Linux
Industry Expertise
Web Design
Storage
MySQL
Other
Web Development, Front-end, User Interface (UI), User Experience (UX), WordPress Plugins, Wireframing, Information Architecture (IA), Website Performance, WordPress Themes, Performance Tuning, Site Speed Optimization, WordPress Design, Front-end Design, Responsive Web Apps, Content Management Systems (CMS), Yoast SEO, Page Speed Optimization, Back-end Development, Core Web Vitals, Performance Optimization, API Integration, Full-stack, Full-stack Development, Multilingual Websites, i18n, APIs, Elementor, Google Tag Manager, Cisco CCNA Voice Certification, Plugins, Cursor AI
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