Darko Goles, Developer in Osijek, Croatia
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Darko Goles

Verified Expert  in Engineering

Magento Developer

Osijek, Croatia

Toptal member since May 1, 2015

Expertise
PayPal DevelopmentPHPMagentoGraphQLFull-stackjQueryMySQLXMLJavaScriptRedisHTML5
Bio

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.

Portfolio

PinpointDesigns, Ltd.
Magento, PHP, Magento 2, eCommerce, PayPal, PayPal API, Payment Gateways...
ApiWorks d.o.o.
Web Services, MySQL, Magento, PHP, Magento 2, eCommerce, PayPal, PayPal API...
Lab Lateral
Magento, PHP, eCommerce, Magento API, Architecture

Experience

  • PHP - 14 years
  • MySQL - 10 years
  • REST - 10 years
  • Magento - 10 years
  • eCommerce - 10 years
  • JavaScript - 7 years
  • RESTful Web Services - 6 years
  • Magento 2 - 4 years

Availability

Full-time

Preferred Environment

Web Services, MySQL, Magento, PHP

The most amazing...

...thing I've done is author the book "Magento Mobile How-To."

Work Experience

Senior Magento Developer

2015 - PRESENT
PinpointDesigns, Ltd.
  • Consulted on Magento-related issues.
  • Developed back-end functionality.
Technologies: Magento, PHP, Magento 2, eCommerce, PayPal, PayPal API, Payment Gateways, Magento API, Architecture

Magento Certified Developer/Consultant

2014 - PRESENT
ApiWorks 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, PHP, Magento 2, eCommerce, PayPal, PayPal API, Payment Gateways, Magento API, Architecture, GraphQL

Magento Developer

2014 - 2015
Lab Lateral
  • Contributed to the development of large Magento projects.
Technologies: Magento, PHP, eCommerce, Magento API, Architecture

Magento Certified Developer PLUS

2012 - 2014
Inchoo, 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), MySQL, Magento, PHP, eCommerce, PayPal, PayPal API, Magento API

PHP/Symfony 2 Developer

2011 - 2012
Surgeworks, 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, PHP

Freelance Web Developer

2007 - 2011
Goleš-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

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 Bookshop

https://bookshop.theguardian.com/
Large scale Magento store with over 250,000 products.

Wow Wireless

http://fromwow.com/
Developed and configured a fresh site for Wow Wireless.

Perfume Price

http://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.

Education

2014 - 2014

Certified Solution Specialist in Magento

Magento U - https://u.magento.com/certification/directory/dev/571865/

2013 - 2013

Certified Developer Plus in Magento

Magento U - https://u.magento.com/certification/directory/dev/571865/

2012 - 2012

Certified Developer in Magento

Magento U - https://u.magento.com/certification/directory/dev/571865/

1993 - 1998

Technical High School Degree in Chemical Technology

Tehnološka škola Osijek - Osijek

Certifications

AUGUST 2014 - PRESENT

Magento Solution Specialist

Magento

SEPTEMBER 2013 - PRESENT

Magento Certified Developer Plus

Magento

OCTOBER 2012 - PRESENT

Magento Certified Developer

Magento

Skills

Libraries/APIs

PayPal API, jQuery

Tools

Flash

Languages

PHP 7, PHP, GraphQL, HTML5, XML, JavaScript, CSS3, CSS, HTML

Platforms

Magento 2, Magento, Magento 1, Magento API, WordPress, Joomla, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Frameworks

Symfony 2

Paradigms

REST

Storage

MySQL, Redis

Other

APIs, eCommerce, PayPal, Payment Gateways, Architecture, Full-stack, Server Configuration, Web Services, RESTful Web Services, Optimization

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