Owner | Developer
2018 - PRESENTFreeshifter- Built a performant and responsive website for Blank on Blank, converting a high-profile design into a functional and flexible website.
- Developed open-source themes for the WordPress community.
- Ran a front-end engineering community.
- Developed highly performant WordPress websites.
- Managed hosting and configuration via DevOps.
Technologies: CSS, HTML, React, WordPress, JavaScriptWordPress/React Developer
2019 - 2019Athletics (via Toptal)- Built and integrated a multisite infrastructure and ACF setup.
- Developed a GatsbyJS front end using styled components, animations, and components.
Technologies: Gatsby, WordPressSenior Web Engineer
2017 - 2019Zeek Interactive- Created high-scale WordPress websites.
- Contributed to company open-source projects.
- Built performant front-end code.
- Led the development of enterprise-level projects.
Technologies: React, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, WordPress, PHPFront-end Engineer
2015 - 2017Rainmaker Digital- Improved an internal codebase through coding a configurable, drop-in solution—saving our internal development team 50 hours a year in repetitive tasks.
- Identified, suggested, and implemented new technologies and tools into our workflow that resulted in 300% increased efficiency and maintainability.
Technologies: CSS, HTML, JavaScript, WordPress, PHPProduct Designer | Developer
2014 - 2015The Audience Awards- Redesigned, developed, and documented a new company brand across the site.
- Designed and detailed an internal style guide, utilizing Atomic Design principles, doubling the production rate of backend developer tasks and implementations toward deployment.
Technologies: JavaScript, HTML, CSS, PHP, Laravel
Calvin Koepke
Software Developer in Boise, ID, United States
Member since October 6, 2017
Calvin has over a decade of experience in both front-end and back-end development. He specializes in WordPress and front-end engineering yet he also has experience in modern technologies and frameworks like React, Vue.js, JavaScript, CSS, and PHP. He is a clear and efficient communicator and has both developed and deployed high-scale WordPress solutions and websites.
Calvin is now available for hire
Portfolio
- FreeshifterCSS, HTML, React, WordPress, JavaScript
- Athletics (via Toptal)Gatsby, WordPress
- Zeek InteractiveReact, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, WordPress, PHP
Experience
- PHP 8 years
- CSS3 5 years
- WordPress 5 years
- Genesis Framework 4 years
- Gulp 3 years
- React 2 years
- JavaScript 6 2 years
- Webpack 2 2 years
Availability
Part-time
Preferred Environment
PhpStorm, Webpack, NPM
The most amazing...
...thing I've built is a large-scale, responsive WordPress website that achieved an average load time of ~1 sec without sacrificing usability or design accuracy.
Employment
Experience
- Startups for the Rest of Ushttps://www.startupsfortherestofus.com
I designed and built a custom theme on WordPress for a popular podcast with over 450 episodes.
- Genesis Starter Themehttps://github.com/cjkoepke/genesis-starter-theme
I composed this powerful, developer boilerplate for WordPress theme builders who use the Genesis Framework.
- Genesis Responsive Menushttps://github.com/copyblogger/responsive-menus
I created this plug-n-play jQuery plugin for adding accessible, responsive menus to any Genesis child theme.
- Genesis Simple FAQhttps://github.com/copyblogger/genesis-simple-faq
I developed an accessible, performant WordPress plugin that adds FAQ management and rendering to your Genesis child theme.
Skills
Languages
PHP 7, PHP, CSS3, JavaScript 6, HTML, JavaScript, CSSFrameworks
Genesis Framework, LaravelTools
Gulp, Adobe Photoshop, GitHub, Webpack 2, NPM, Webpack, PhpStorm, SketchPlatforms
WordPressOther
WordPress Plugins, WordPress Themes, Atomic Design, Gatsby, Styled-componentsLibraries/APIs
React, jQueryParadigms
Functional Programming, Object-oriented Programming (OOP)Storage
MySQL, MongoDB
