Costin Botez
Verified Expert in Engineering
Web Developer
Costin is an accomplished contract WordPress developer with over seven years of professional cross-industry experience, specializing in web development. He is experienced in advising clients and executives, developing bespoke website features to suit specific client requirements, coordinating web development project delivery from inception to completion, and working with cross-functional teams and senior stakeholders.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Local Hosting, MacOS, SourceTree, Sublime Text 3
The most amazing...
...thing I've coded was an algorithm for a WordPress e-learning platform where courses can be structured very easily using trees for a given pattern.
Work Experience
Contract WordPress Developer
ReLondon
- Improved the user approval process and back-end styling for a WordPress website, enhancing team and user experience.
- Streamlined the directory setup process, reducing new user setup hassles.
- Advised on integrating and optimizing Mighty Networks for better community engagement.
Contract WordPress Developer
Pangolin Communications
- Curated a corporate website for an award-winning tech supplier in China by improving their website's page speed.
- Successfully identified, diagnosed, and fixed their website bugs, including boosting the SEO score and ranking.
- Worked with custom fields to develop new eCommerce features.
Contract WordPress Developer
Cisco
- Effectively translated client requirements into a presentation website development and fresh design.
- Developed a bespoke page builder using ACF and a custom theme to achieve a consistent look across the website.
- Remained dedicated to emerging technology and the latest digital marketing concepts.
Contract WordPress Developer
Feed Communications
- Worked along with the design and marketing teams in order to redesign a client's website and migrate everything to live quickly and smoothly.
- Implemented speed improvements and enhanced their SEO ranking.
- Cooperated alongside design and marketing teams to redesign a client's website and migrate everything to live quickly and smoothly.
Contract WordPress Developer
Third Space Learning
- Worked mainly as a WordPress consultant, helping the company improve their social awareness by improving their SEO score.
- Performed day-to-day responsibilities such as redesigning the company’s websites for specific marketing campaigns, maintaining the code for security reasons and consistency, developing and implementing new features.
- Planned and estimated all milestones alongside marketing and design teams on sprints to deliver the new features on schedule.
Contract WordPress Developer
Eulogy
- Developed a bespoke theme in a WordPress website for a UK startup.
- Cooperated alongside design and marketing teams in order to re-design a client's website and migrate everything to live quickly and smoothly.
- Successfully identified, diagnosed, and fixed their website bugs, including boosting the SEO score and page speed ranking.
Web Developer and Project Manager
Inception Group
- Created a landing page for a new pop-up venue, Spritzandgiggles.co.uk.
- Managed the development of Mr. Fogg's collective multisite.
- Dealt with the weekly maintenance such as updates, A/B testing, and security checks.
- Optimized the speed and performance of all the company venue websites.
- Successfully identified, diagnosed, and fixed their website bugs, including boosting the SEO score and page speed ranking.
- Integrated a "mood recognition" feature in newsletters to help the MK team track conversion rates more efficiently.
- Implemented an isotope gallery for the IG website.
- Found and removed malicious viruses from Mr. Fogg's websites.
- Developed an in-house events menu builder that is currently helping the events and design teams to work better.
Full-stack WordPress Developer
Akson Kreative
- Created a WordPress plugin for an e-learning platform where the administrator can assign courses to custom user roles.
- Developed a WordPress e-learning platform where members can apply CRUD operations on custom post types depending on their privileges, including integration with BuddyPress for social media activities.
- Built a WordPress landing page as a presentation website that included all custom plugins, themes, and JavaScript effects.
- Created a WordPress eCommerce website for a coffee shop, including the capability of buying coffee via subscriptions based on custom grinds and quantities (bags or not) which would be delivered in regular intervals.
- Developed a WordPress plugin that lists all the upcoming orders by date and distinct products from all orders in a given day. Each order contained a preferred delivery date.
- Wrote an algorithm for a WordPress e-learning platform where courses can be structured easily using trees for a given pattern (a week or day module).
- Conducted day-to-day responsibilities such as maintaining the legacy websites, help the business open new venue websites, and integrating them smoothly with the existing internal hubs.
- Integrated a few CRM software, guided the marketing team on different strategies using the traffic data, created landing pages for specific campaigns, and created an internal menu creator tool (which was fun).
Skills
Languages
CSS3, HTML5, PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript
Libraries/APIs
WooCommerce API, BuddyPress
Tools
Advanced Custom Fields (ACF)
Paradigms
Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Procedural Programming, Object-oriented Programming (OOP)
Platforms
WordPress, WooCommerce
Storage
WP Engine, MySQL
Other
Plugin Development, Theme Development, Support & Maintenance, Migration, Troubleshooting, WordPress Themes, Pixel Perfect, WordPress Plugins, Web Development, API Integration, WordPress Design, Elementor, Algorithms, Scripting, Membership Sites
Frameworks
Bootstrap
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
Ovidius University, Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics - Constanta, Romania
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