Carmelo Pullara, Developer in Favara, Italy

Carmelo Pullara

Software Developer

Location
Favara, Italy
Toptal Member Since
March 15, 2018

Carmelo is an experienced front-end engineer with over 10 years of experience delivering visually pleasing and user-friendly digital experiences. He is skilled in modern technologies and frameworks and focuses on high-quality, responsive designs to achieve business objectives. Carmelo is a dedicated problem-solver who stays current with industry trends and best practices.

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Portfolio

HealthIQ (via Toptal)
Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP), Grunt, Cypress, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Ruby, CSS...
Cortina Productions (via Toptal)
React DnD, CSS, React, JavaScript
Huizenmarkt (via Toptal)
User Experience (UX), Laravel, Bulma, CSS, HTML, JavaScript

Experience

CSS - 8 yearsJavaScript - 8 yearsHTML - 8 yearsNode.js - 5 yearsReact - 5 yearsReact Native - 4 yearsGraphQL - 2 yearsAmazon Web Services (AWS) - 1 year

Location

Favara, Italy

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Git, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), MacOS

The most amazing...

...project I've coded is a React interactive experience for a national museum.

Work Experience

2019 - 2019

Front-end Developer

HealthIQ (via Toptal)
  • Built a series of landing pages for product launches.
  • Created an automated test with Cypress that saved hours of manual testing.
  • Developed dynamics sign-up forms with interactive inputs that increased the conversion rate.
Technologies: Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP), Grunt, Cypress, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Ruby, CSS, HTML, JavaScript
2019 - 2019

UI Engineer

Cortina Productions (via Toptal)
  • Created two interactive experiences with React for a major national museum in Washington: an audio/video-based quiz and a drag-n-drop game.
Technologies: React DnD, CSS, React, JavaScript
2018 - 2019

Front-end Developer

Huizenmarkt (via Toptal)
  • Designed a real estate platform for the Dutch market.
  • Implemented the new design in a Laravel application.
Technologies: User Experience (UX), Laravel, Bulma, CSS, HTML, JavaScript
2012 - 2019

Front-end Developer

Independent Freelance Work
  • Built a social platform for the entertainment industry from scratch.
  • Created two websites for large movie and gaming industry companies such as Paramount Pictures and NBC in one month.
Technologies: Redux, Less, Sass, CSS, HTML, React Native, React, JavaScript
2014 - 2018

Front-end and WordPress Developer

ThemeForest
  • Built and maintained a large number of premium WordPress themes that are used by more than 4,800 customers.
  • Developed custom plugins, shortcodes, and option pages for theme integration.
  • Provided full support to a large customer base.
Technologies: Less, Gulp, Git, WordPress, PHP, JavaScript, CSS, HTML
2015 - 2016

Front-end Developer (Contract)

Dsire, Inc.
  • Built websites for large companies in the movie and gaming industries.
  • Collaborated with designers and translated their wireframes into HTML pages.
Technologies: WordPress, Less, CSS, HTML, JavaScript

Experience

React Feather

https://github.com/feathericons/react-feather
An open-source React icon library that has generated more than 5 million downloads since 2017.

Comet | WordPress Theme

http://themes.hody.co/comet/chooser/
Used by more than 900 customers, Comet is a pixel-perfect, fully responsive WordPress theme. In the Tuts+ blog, it has been rated as the best WordPress theme for creative agencies in 2017 (fourth in 2018).

Dylan | WordPress Theme

http://themes.hody.co/dylan/chooser/
Dylan is a high-performance, fully responsive WordPress theme. With more than 20 different home pages, it’s perfect for any kind of business and personal website.

Bezel | WordPress Theme

http://themes.hody.co/bezel/chooser/
Used by more than 480 customers, Bezel is a creative, fully responsive WordPress theme that's suitable for almost any kind of website.

Skills

Languages

SCSS, HTML5, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Sass, ECMAScript (ES6), GraphQL, PHP, Ruby, Python

Frameworks

React Native, Bootstrap, Next.js, Express.js, Redux, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Cypress, Bulma, Laravel

Libraries/APIs

React, Node.js, React DnD

Tools

Git, Gulp, GitHub, Webpack

Platforms

Visual Studio Code (VS Code), MacOS, Firebase, Linux, WordPress, Amazon Web Services (AWS), AWS Lambda

Other

User Interface (UI), Pixel Perfect, User Experience (UX), WordPress Plugins, Apollo, Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP)

Paradigms

Functional Programming

Storage

Amazon S3 (AWS S3)

Education

2006 - 2011

High School Diploma in Electronics

Marconi Institute - Favara, Italy