Senior Magento Developer
2015 - PRESENTPinpointDesigns, Ltd.- Consulted on Magento-related issues.
- Developed back-end functionality.
Technologies: Magento, PHPMagento Certified Developer/Consultant
2014 - PRESENTApiWorks d.o.o.- Contracted for Abacus, a Canadian internet agency.
- Provided contract services on several smaller projects for Surgeworks, Ltd., Utah, US.
- Developed for for Lab Lateral, Ltd., a UK web agency handling large Magento projects.
Technologies: Web Services, MySQL, Magento, PHPMagento Developer
2014 - 2015Lab Lateral- Contributed to the development of large Magento projects.
Technologies: Magento, PHPMagento Certified Developer PLUS
2012 - 2014Inchoo, Ltd.- Worked in Inchoo as a full-time Magento professional, I gained experience in eCommerce in general and also in project management and organizational skills.
- Passed the Magento Certified Developer certification as a result of working on large Magento Enterprise projects.
- Worked a lot on Magento site optimizations helping clients (merchants) to increase conversions and user experience on their web shops.
- Authored a book through Packt Publishing, Birmingham, UK.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), AWS, MySQL, Magento, PHPPHP/Symfony 2 Developer
2011 - 2012Surgeworks, Ltd.- Worked on different mobile application projects and web service APIs as a web service specialist in the iOS development team.
- Supported and developed the website divineoffice.org.
- Created DivineOfficeHUB, a powerful mobile data and content management PHP application.
- Contributed as one of the first Symfony 2 blog authors with over thirty articles.
- Used Agile methodologies for product development to increase profit to Surgeworks in the mobile market.
Technologies: WordPress, MySQL, Web Services, Symfony 2, PHPFreelance Web Developer
2007 - 2011Goleš-media- Created more than twenty websites using plain HTML, CSS, Joomla, and WordPress,.
- Created several websites with eCommerce/eCatalog functionality.
Technologies: Flash, MySQL, Joomla, WordPress, PHP
Darko Goles
Magento Developer in Osijek, Croatia
Member since April 9, 2015
Darko is a Certified Magento Developer Plus as well as a solution specialist, book author, and blogger. With over eleven years' web programming experience including 5+ as an eCommerce professional specialized in web service APIs, third party integrations, and speed optimizations, he delivers only the best quality optimized code.
Darko is now available for hire
Portfolio
- PinpointDesigns, Ltd.Magento, PHP
- ApiWorks d.o.o.Web Services, MySQL, Magento, PHP
- Lab LateralMagento, PHP
Experience
- PHP 14 years
- MySQL 10 years
- eCommerce 8 years
- Magento 8 years
- JavaScript 7 years
- REST 6 years
- RESTful Web Services 6 years
- Magento 2 4 years
Availability
Part-time
Preferred Environment
Web Services, MySQL, Magento, PHP
The most amazing...
...thing I've done is author the book "Magento Mobile How-To."
Employment
Experience
- Prayer
Prayer was part of one large project I worked on in Surgeworks. The application is powered by a content delivery platform named DivineOfficeHUB, which I developed.
- DivineOfficeHUB
DivineOfficeHUB is a fully customizable CMS that serves as a data provider for mobile applications using REST web services. Also it has a complete set of rich features for content entry and content organization managment. Used by Surgeworks mobile application projects.
- Medjugorje
Like Prayer, this product was part of the same project which is powered with same content delivery platform built by myself.
- Mageboard
A powerful iPhone/iPad mobile application made by Inchoo for Magento store owners. My part of the project was the Magento extension that provides all necessary data via SOAP web services to mobile app.
- Juvalia & You
An online jewelry store operating in four countries.
- Divine Office
Divine Office's purpose is to spread, deepen and enhance the Christian faith of the communities in which we work and live and of the society on which we depend by making the Catholic teachings and lifestyle accessible through modern media.
Divine Office's mission is to evangelize and to nurture our Catholic relationship with God by designing and offering content, software products, development, and design services for the Catholic community. - Sheeel.com
Sheeel.com is a Middle Eastern daily deal website with responsive design, offering a simple proposition: Amazing deals every day that are available for only 24 hours or until the product sells out (whichever comes first).
- Digumz.com
The largest game rental store in the Middle East.
- Theguardian Bookshophttps://bookshop.theguardian.com/
Large scale Magento store with over 250,000 products.
- Wow Wirelesshttp://fromwow.com/
Developed and configured a fresh site for Wow Wireless.
- Perfume Pricehttp://www.perfumeprice.net/
Magento website for parfumeprice.net.
- CosmicCart Magento module
Magento integration with popular CosmicCart service.
- Magento Mobile How-To | Book
Authored and published a book on Magento development.
Skills
Languages
PHP 7, PHP, HTML5, XML, JavaScript, CSS3, CSS, HTMLPlatforms
Magento 2, Magento, Magento 1, WordPress, Joomla, Amazon Web Services (AWS)Other
APIs, eCommerce, Full-stack, Server Configuration, Web Services, RESTful Web Services, Optimization, AWSFrameworks
Symfony 2Libraries/APIs
jQueryParadigms
RESTStorage
MySQL, RedisTools
Flash
Education
- Certified Solution Specialist in Magento2014 - 2014Magento U - https://u.magento.com/certification/directory/dev/571865/
- Certified Developer Plus in Magento2013 - 2013Magento U - https://u.magento.com/certification/directory/dev/571865/
- Certified Developer in Magento2012 - 2012Magento U - https://u.magento.com/certification/directory/dev/571865/
- Technical High School degree in Chemical Technology1993 - 1998Tehnološka škola Osijek - Osijek
Certifications
- Magento Solution SpecialistAUGUST 2014 - PRESENTMagento
- Magento Certified Developer PlusSEPTEMBER 2013 - PRESENTMagento
- Magento Certified DeveloperOCTOBER 2012 - PRESENTMagento
