Senior Full-stack Developer
2017 - PRESENTMegaOptim- Built image compression APIs in the Lumen framework from Laravel that serves more than 1,000 web apps and sites. The resulting images are up to 92% smaller in size after optimization.
- Developed a WordPress plugin that utilizes the image compression APIs and automates the image optimization process in WordPress sites.
- Constructed a support-and-billing panel for customers to purchase premium plans, monitor statistics, and open-support requests.
- Created a PHP composer package and CLI tool that utilizes the image compression APIs and allows the optimizations APIs to be integrated into any application.
- Developed a WordPress website to showcase the service and documentation page for REST APIs.
- Created a load-balanced set up to offload requests to multiple servers and speed up the processing time.
Technologies: Adobe Photoshop, Object-oriented Programming (OOP), HTML5, ACF, LAMP, MySQL, Front-end, Back-end, Git, Redis, Laravel, WordPress, JavaScript, PHP, REST APIs, APIs, HAProxy, Load Balancers, DevOpsSenior WordPress Developer
2016 - PRESENTCodeVerve- Built the WordPress plugin "WP Vimeo Videos," currently used by more than 500 sites. The plugin integrates WordPress with Vimeo and allows users to upload Vimeo videos from the WordPress dashboard or Gutenberg editor.
- Developed the GravityForms Handmade Signatures plugin that allows the site owner to embed a signature field in any form created with GravityForms.
- Helped existing clients with bug fixing, website performance, and page-speed optimization to at least 90% percent and up to two seconds of loading time.
- Developed a custom WooCommerce solution and integrated various payment gateways for the clients' needs.
- Created an internal licensing plugin for WordPress that validates license keys and handles auto-updates of the premium plugins.
- Built the Digital License Manager plugin for WordPress that provides functionality for selling license keys for software and acts as a software licensing server. The solution can be used with or without WooCommerce.
Technologies: Web Hosting, Object-oriented Programming (OOP), ACF Pro, WP-CLI, WordPress API, HTML5, ACF, WooCommerce, MySQL, Front-end, Back-end, Git, REST APIs, WordPress Plugins, Gutenberg Editor, Gravity Forms, APIs, Vimeo, WordPress, PHP, JavaScript, LeafletJS, Advanced Custom Fields (ACF)WordPress Developer
2022 - 2023Propellor BV- Refactored an eCommerce WordPress plugin and optimized its performance and security while improving code quality. Sites that used the secure plugin became 100% faster.
- Developed new features, fixed bugs, and rewrote existing functionality for better performance and security.
- Created a customized Linux hosting environment to host the client's sites that utilize their services. The new hosting environment improves the sites' performance and security and simplifies the development work and website provisioning using a command line interface.
- Implemented a GitLab CI/CD flow with pipelines on the new Linux hosting environment. This allowed developers to automatically deploy versions to both production and development sites based on certain GitLab repository actions.
- Created a custom plugin that serves as an Elementor support layer used on the clients' sites to improve the main eCommerce plugin compatibility.
- Prepared the eCommerce plugin for WordPress.org plugin directory submission, which required significant codebase changes to use WordPress coding standards and requirements that were not used before.
Technologies: WordPress, WordPress Themes, WordPress Design, HTML5, WordPress Plugins, PHP, CSS, eCommerce, Headless Commerce, GraphQL, AstraWordpress Developer
2020 - 20237055 Inc- Developed a multivendor marketplace plugin for WooCommerce that provides functionality where product vendors can sign up and post their products on the store where those products can be seen and purchased.
- Integrated Stripe payments through the Multivendor plugin and Stripe Connect, where vendors can set up their accounts and receive payouts through the store.
- Developed a custom plugin for events that provides functionality to publish new events on the site. Both admins or regular users can publish events; if published later, then the event is subject to approval.
- Deployed the website on Google Cloud (GCP) and set up the hosting environment using NGINX and PHP-FPM.
Technologies: WordPress, PHP, MySQL, CSS, HTML5, Figma, ACF, WooCommerce, WooCommerce API, PSD to WordPress, HTML to WordPress, WordPress Plugins, Stripe, Stripe API, Stripe Connect, Stripe Connect API, Google Cloud Platform (GCP)WordPress Developer
2022 - 2022Northeastern University- Developed a WordPress plugin that integrates and consumes custom AI-based API for content suggestions.
- Created custom themes and various charts for displaying API data.
- Worked together with another developer on planning the API and custom development.
- Created AWS Lambda functions for various web automations.
Technologies: WordPress, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), APIs, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Python, MySQL, Web Design, WordPress Design, Bluehost, Figma, HTML to WordPress, WordPress Theme Design, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Data VisualizationSenior WordPress Developer
2018 - 2021Land Title Association of Mississippi- Developed an identity verification plugin that utilizes the Stripe Identity Verification API to verify a user's identity.
- Built a user directory that lists all the active user profiles that belong to a specific membership plan.
- Developed a legislation tracking plugin for tracking specific US house/senate bills.
- Built various directories like a state county directory with helpful information.
Technologies: WP-CLI, Gravity Forms, Bootstrap 3+, WordPress API, HTML5, CSS, ACF, MySQL, Back-end, Front-end, Git, jQuery, WordPress Plugins, Stripe, BuddyPress, WooCommerce, Stripe API, WordPress, JavaScript, PHP, WooCommerce API, LearnDash, Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), Custom Post Types, WordPress Multi-userWordPress Developer
2017 - 2020The St. Petersburg Group- Developed the St. Pete Catalyst news site in WordPress. The website handles thousands of requests on an hourly basis and several other plugins that provide various functionalities for this site.
- Built a WordPress plugin and internal events API that hosts an events network used by pre-approved websites through the WordPress plugin, which consumes the events API.
- Created a WordPress plugin for booking advertisements that integrate with Stripe. Clients can top up their accounts with credits that can be used to purchase advertisement slots on pre-approved sites in the network for a given time.
- Developed various custom forms from XD designs used for data input by the guests, namely guest posts.
- Implemented a business directory where local businesses can create their profiles and add information about their business.
- Created a COVID-19 interactive map with several cases in zip-code regions in Pinellas county using Leaflet.js.
Technologies: WP Rocket, ACF Pro, WP-CLI, Gravity Forms, Bootstrap 3+, WordPress API, HTML5, CSS, ACF, MySQL, Google Maps, Back-end, Front-end, Git, REST APIs, WordPress Themes, PSD to WordPress, WordPress Plugins, Stripe, jQuery, JavaScript, WordPress, PHP, Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), Custom Post Types, Web Design, DevOps, WordPress Multi-userSenior Web Developer
2013 - 2018Freelance- Developed a web app game that primarily focused on people with diabetes (they answered quizzes and then gained points and levels in their accounts). The application served more than 1,000 users simultaneously.
- Built a new functionality and improved the existing functionality to speed up the service phptopdf.com which serves more than 100,000 requests daily.
- Developed, maintained, and hosted over 100 WordPress websites for local and remote clients.
- Created HTML/JavaScript promotional animations for the Starbucks site used for promotion.
- Developed engagestudio.com based on the PSD design, including integrations with HubSpot and Trustpilot.
- Developed the loopsandbits.ch eCommerce site for music equipment. The eCommerce portion is based on WooCommerce and integrates with several payment gateways like PostFinance, PayPal, and Twint.
- Developed the techgarage.blog based on Zeplin designs, including dark mode, integration with Campaign Monitor, and Gravity Forms.
- Developed the Ilubooking.ee WordPress beauty-booking site and the booking REST API consumed by Android and iOS apps.
- Developed a site for online learning based on LearnDash and BuddyPress where students can sign up, create their social profiles and start online learning.
Technologies: Web Hosting, Genesis Framework, Object-oriented Programming (OOP), ACF Pro, WP-CLI, Gravity Forms, Bootstrap 3+, WordPress API, HTML5, CSS, ACF, LAMP, WordPress Rescue, WooCommerce, MySQL, Google Maps, Back-end, Front-end, Git, REST APIs, jQuery, PSD to WordPress, Vue, Symfony, Laravel, WordPress, JavaScript, PHP, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), Custom Post Types, Web Design, WordPress Design, User Interface (UI), YouTube API, DevOps, WordPress Multisite, WordPress Multi-user, Divi, GitHub, IT Security