Dinh Tu
Verified Expert in Engineering
WordPress Developer
Fremont, CA, United States
Toptal member since September 21, 2021
With over 10 years of experience under her belt, Dinh is a professional software engineer heavily focusing on full-stack web development with front-end and back-end support. She specializes in customized WordPress and JavaScript frameworks. With plenty of web apps in various fields already developed, Dinh can build the most qualified, well-optimized, and high-performance app products to satisfy the client by following the standard software development lifecycle using Agile methodologies.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Slack, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), WordPress, Git, Jira, SQLyog, Postman, NPM, Composer, MacOS
The most amazing...
...project I've worked on is the MotleyFool Stock advice portal, a localized WordPress multisite with a complex eCommerce integrated with Vindicia.
Work Experience
WordPress/WooCommerce Developer
Classful
- Updated and added new features to the eCommerce platform. Built user dashboard features, including financial reports, social feeds, and analytics reports.
- Implemented Asana for team communication and issues tracking.
- Worked on site performance improvement and query optimization.
- Built search functionalities using Elasticsearch engine.
Full Stack Developer
Ciedigital
- Rebranded a hospital website and built an online scheduling system for patients to schedule doctors online.
- Developed a custom advanced search functionality using REST API and Vue.js.
- Created an internal portal using React and Twilio for hospital guides to manage their chat with moms.
- Developed an onboarding application for a financial auto-invoicing system in React and Stripe.
Full-stack Developer
Motley Fool
- Maintained and added new features to a WordPress localized multisite with subscription products for Australia, Canada, Germany, and Japan.
- Consolidated an eCommerce system integrated with Vindicia third-party vendor.
- Updated, refined, and improved old custom plugins and themes using PHP OOP, Lando, PHP unit testing, and Webpack assets bundling.
Full-stack Developer
Bloomberg
- Maintained and added new features to Bloomberg WordPress multisite.
- Added and set up new sites to the multisite and localized and resolved East Asian font issues.
- Built new custom Visual Composer modules and updated existing ones.
- Built and maintained a webinars registration system integrated with Intrado APIs and WP-Cron.
Full-stack Developer
Essence
- Maintained and added features to high-traffic WordPress websites https://essence.com and https://girlsunited.essence.com/.
- Maintained and added features to https://www.naturallycurly.com, a Laravel CMS website.
- Built pages using Gutenberg core and built Gutenberg custom blocks using either ACF or React.
- Designed and implemented infinite scrolling both in the front end and the back end.
- Integrated third-party video providers like Brightcove and JW Player.
- Integrated Google Ads and added sticky, general, and lazy-loaded features.
- Implemented deep third-party tracking, including Google, Facebook, and Salesforce.
- Built custom CLIs and used cron jobs to auto-publish articles every day based on Google Analytics data.
- Added a custom sitemap plugin to generate offline sitemap segments and merge them into one and serve on the fly per requests.
- Used ACF Pro and its various hooks to customize the theme and added custom post types and custom meta fields.
Full-stack Developer
DigitalReachAgency
- Worked closely with the project manager to provide high-end development services for clients.
- Built WordPress themes and custom plugins from scratch and added flexible content blocks using the ACF Pro plugin.
- Built beautiful pixel-perfect and mobile-responsive front pages from the given mockup or creative designs.
- Used Timber plugin and Twig template language to build custom themes.
- Maintained WordPress websites and added custom features per clients’ requests.
- Maintained Drupal websites and also moved a Drupal site to the WordPress stack.
Web Developer
DGN Technologies
- Performed advanced JavaScript functional programming and created single-page apps with React.
- Developed software using RESTful APIs with Node.js and Express.js.
- Handled JavaScript UX framework prototyping and built a responsive Angular-based media-heavy website.
- Build an Angular UI with internationalization and localization capabilities and a modular system for expansion, including custom components, API integration, and Auth.
- Designed and created a MongoDB database structure.
Junior Software Engineer
Lam Research
- Implemented a system for creating promotional campaign landing pages from the CMS.
- Built a career portal for creating and publicizing open positions at the company.
- Created an eCommerce website with payment integration and social account. authorizing.
- Built real-estate and travel platforms in the MERN stack and IDX listing.
Experience
Financial Advice eCommerce Portal
https://www.fool.comThis website uses WordPress Multisite and site location that supports the US, Australia, Canada, Germany, and Japan, and is set up to eCommerce using a third-party vendor, Vindicia Service. It has a bunch of custom plugins built that are contributing to its eCommerce system modules. Most of them are created based mainly on OOP, Webpack Assets bundling, Lando set up, and PHP unit testing.
I worked on cleaning up, improving, and optimizing the existing codebase. I also maintained and added new features related to eCommerce premium products and Vindicia third-party integration.
News Article Feed and Video Streaming Portal
https://essence.comThe website is built on a custom theme and uses Gutenberg core and custom blocks to create pages. I integrated Ads, optimized Google Analytics, Brightcove videos, JWPlayer videos, and a lot more inside.
Bloomberg Web Portal
https://www.bloomberg.com/companyI customized the page contents, added new and updated existing custom visual composer modules, and implemented the webinars feed using Intrado API integration with custom search and filters, infinite scroll, custom tags, and custom templates.
Mainstreet Financial Platform Website
https://www.mainstreet.com/Given the designs, I built the website from scratch by creating a custom theme and custom modules using HubSpot CMS APIs. I built CSS and JavaScript animations using the GSAP library. The folder structure is optimized, and the assets are all bundled through Webpack configuration.
The website was successfully launched within one month.
eCommerce Platform for Fundraising and Marketplace
https://www.classful.comEducation
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
University of California, Riverside - Riverside, CA, USA
Skills
Libraries/APIs
Brightcove API, Google Analytics, Slack API, WordPress REST API, React.js, jQuery, Mailchimp API, Node.js, Google Ads API, REST API, WordPress Development, Facebook API, Google Translate API, Google APIs, GSAP, Vue.js, Stripe Development
Tools
Slack Development, Git, Jira, SQL, Postman, NPM, Composer, Photoshop, Lando, Vagrant, Cron, Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), JWPlayer, Trello Development, GitHub, ACF PRO, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Webpack, Gulp, Figma, Confluence, Zeplin Design, Gutenberg Editor, Google Analytics
Languages
PHP, JavaScript, TypeScript, Timber, Sass, SQL, HTML, SCSS, CSS, HTML5
Frameworks
Bootstrap, Twig, Tailwind CSS, Laravel, Express.js, Next.js, Angular, Vanilla JS
Paradigms
Object-oriented Programming (OOP), Agile Development, Responsive Web Design, Responsive Web Design, Unit Testing
Platforms
WordPress Development, HubSpot Development, Pantheon, Contentful, MacOS, WooCommerce Design, Drupal Design, Twilio Development
Storage
MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, Elasticsearch, SQL
Other
Operating Systems, APIs, Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP), Ad Optimization, WordPress Plugins, WordPress Development, API Integration, Responsive Web Development, Pixel Perfect, CSS Grid, Visual Composer, Plugins, Content Management Systems (CMS), CRM, PSD to HTML, XD to HTML, Sketch, Zeplin to HTML, HTML5, Google Tag Manager, Data Visualization, Localization, Regular Expressions, Animation Development, WordPress Multisite, Web Development, Elementor, Custom Themes, E-commerce marketing, Strip, Gravity Forms, Optimization, Ajax, Healthcare Services, Finance, Web Dashboards, Analytics Development
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