Ben Wright
WordPress Developer
Ben is an expert at developing custom WordPress themes and plugins. He's spent the past five years leading the builds of numerous websites and is capable of taking a project from the design stage to launch. Ben excels at creating blazing fast WordPress sites by optimizing them from the get-go with modern web development techniques.
Portfolio
Experience
JavaScript - 6 yearsCSS - 6 yearsPHP - 6 yearsWordPress - 5 yearsMobile App Development - 4 yearsReact - 3 yearsReact Native - 3 yearsCI/CD Pipelines - 2 yearsLocation
Availability
Preferred Environment
GitHub, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), MacOS
The most amazing...
...product I've coded is an intelligent weight-lifting app. It uses a neural network to predict the perfomance of the user in each workout.
Work Experience
React Native Developer
Pretty Little Thing
- Developed a greenfield marketplace app project for clothing reselling.
- Oversaw the launch process, which saw 150 thousand users register in the first few months.
- Created automated CI/CD workflows and make them suitable for a team of developers.
Full-stack Developer
Bluebox Digital
- Developed an AI-driven weight lifting fitness app to guide users through their workout, providing them with suggestions on how to improve each week.
- Created an app to discover authentic places to eat, drink, and shop—filtered by the things you love, captured by the people you trust.
- Launched multiple React Native apps on the App Store and Google Play Store.
- Developed a custom WordPress plugin to search car registration number plates with DVLA API to give the visitors suggestions for their car tires.
Mobile Developer
My PT Hub
- Kickstarted component and end-to-end testing on the mobile app with the introduction of React Native Testing Library and Detox to reduce bugs.
- Implemented a strategy for converting codebase from JavaScript to TypeScript to improve code quality and reduce bugs.
- Tracked and fixed bugs from the Jira bug board and resolved long-standing code debt issues.
Web Developer
Key Digital
- Led the development of numerous websites for clients, taking a project from the design stage to launch.
- Created easy-to-customize WordPress themes using ACF to make it easy for the client to add new pages to the site.
- Developed a WordPress plugin to be used by IoT devices to grab data with an API using headless WordPress.
- Achieving 90+ PageSpeed insights on the majority of web builds.
- Created a rule-based recurring events plugin to reduce admin on the site and improve page speed.
Cloud Developer
ProvenWorks
- Handled the code migration of an app from Salesforce Classic to Salesforce Lightning.
- Updated an old interface with a new, UX-focused interface using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
- Participated in company meetings to critique the design of upcoming products.
Experience
WordPress Build for Accent Technologies
https://accent-technologies.com/Skills
Frameworks
React Native, Redux, Jest
Libraries/APIs
React, WordPress API, jQuery
Tools
Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), PhpMyAdmin, Jira, Git, GitHub, Gutenberg Editor
Languages
PHP, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Sass, TypeScript
Platforms
WooCommerce, Firebase, WordPress, cPanel, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Salesforce
Storage
MySQL
Other
Site Speed Optimization, Mobile App Development, CI/CD Pipelines, Gatsby, Software Development, Computer Science
Paradigms
Agile
Education
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Degree in Computer Science
University of Reading - Reading, United Kingdom
Level 3 Extended Diploma in Information Technology
Queen Elizabeth's School - United Kingdom