
Ionuț Staicu
Verified Expert in Engineering
SOLID Principles Developer
Constanța, Constanța County, Romania
Toptal member since March 1, 2019
Passionate about everything development-related, Ionuț has been a professional developer since 2006. Throughout his career, Ionuț has accumulated expertise in various languages and technologies, including SCSS, PHP, JavaScript, OOP, and SOLID principles.
Portfolio
Experience
- jQuery - 12 years
- PHP - 10 years
- WordPress - 10 years
- SOLID Principles - 6 years
- Object-oriented Programming (OOP) - 5 years
- JavaScript - 5 years
- Responsive Web Design (RWD) - 5 years
- React - 2 years
Availability
Preferred Environment
Git, PhpStorm, Linux
The most amazing...
...thing I've built is a system that makes searching tens of thousands of documents a breeze by parsing PDFs and sending the content to an Elasticsearch instance.
Work Experience
WordPress and PHP Developer
Buddhist Tzu Chi Foundation
- Managed high-traffic period and optimized MySQL and Redis cluster configurations.
- Improved existing Vue components that are interacting with WordPress API.
- Built multiple Elementor widgets that interact with external APIs.
- Improved the build process used by the deployment flow.
- Improved the update flow by adding versioning info.
Web Developer
aLookingGlass Limited
- Configured servers and gathered all the company's sites, which decreased the company costs by up to 80% every year.
- Streamlined deployments, which now are an automated, one-click process.
- Implemented redesigned layouts that match the current company direction.
- Implemented public advertisements and banner reporting functionality.
PHP Developer
WP Tutoring
- Developed a solution that integrates Apache Tika with Elastic Search (Swiftype App Search) to easily find content within tens of thousands of documents.
- Set up scripts to streamline the deployment process.
- Developed integration with Algolia that allows users to search for media items.
Web Developer
iiD
- Set up custom Git and CI integration to automatically assure high code quality.
- Built mobile application using hybrid technologies like Cordova and PhoneGap.
- Built custom WordPress plugins that assured integration with external services (e.g. Salesforce, YouTube).
- Developed complex solutions on both the front end and back end, mostly with WordPress.
- Wrote clean and efficient JavaScript, PHP, and SCSS code.
Web Developer
Fabvla Inc.
- Streamlined deployment of applications to live servers.
- Built custom WordPress plugins and custom WordPress themes.
- Migrated custom CMS databases to WordPress by reverse-engineering the old DB structure.
- Built custom REST endpoints for mobile applications.
- Wrote a PhoneGap app for Android, iOS, and Windows mobile. The whole app was built using TDD methodology.
Experience
Handlebar for WordPress
https://github.com/iamntz/handlebars.wpTherefore, I've created a wrapper that will ultimately separate the two responsibilities.
Clean PHP, clean HTML for all!
Audrie & Daisy Movie Site
http://www.audrieanddaisy.comThe theme was created from the client's designs and fine-tuned to match the expected functionality.
Foundation Cini (Client: Fabvla)
https://www.cini.itTechnologies: Handlebars, ECMAScript (ES6), REST API, Carbon Fields, WPML.
Fondazione Benetton (Client: Fabvla)
http://www.fbsr.itPlugins and technologies used: WPML, Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), Handlebars.
Marius Cucu' Blog
http://mariuscucu.roFriland
https://fri.land/By using Next.js/React with server-side rendering, I built a system that fetches and consumes data coming from an external API.
Jubiter Blog
My responsibilities included implementing Sketch designs into WordPress, migrating data from a non-WP CMS, and managing an automatic deploy method.
Felder Gruppe
https://felder-gruppe.ro/My job was to implement PSD designs into WordPress while maintaining an easy-to-use admin UI. I also created a multi-environment setup for Live and Staging, allowing editors to manage content and test new features in a private area while deploying automatically to Live servers when changes are approved.
Alexandrian Witchcraft
https://alexandrianwitchcraft.org/Additionally, I moved the site to a freshly configured server, set up automatic backups, and streamlined the update process.
Mountain Innovation Hub
https://mountaininnovationhub.itSkills
Libraries/APIs
jQuery, WordPress API, React, Facebook API, WordPress REST API, BuddyPress, Vue, Backbone.js, Google APIs, Stripe, Carbon, Vue 3
Tools
WPML, Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), Git, GitHub, Ansible, Docker Compose, PhpStorm, Sublime Text, Vim Text Editor, Grunt, Gulp, NGINX, Elastic, Meilisearch
Languages
CSS, SCSS, HTML, PHP, Sass, JavaScript, Timber, TypeScript
Frameworks
Tailwind CSS, ZURB Foundation, Twig, Next.js, Nuxt.js, Nuxt 3, Genesis Framework, Laravel, Lumen, PHPUnit
Paradigms
Object-oriented Programming (OOP), Responsive Web Design (RWD), Responsive Layout, Responsive Development, REST, Object-relational Mapping (ORM), Test-driven Development (TDD)
Platforms
WordPress, WooCommerce, DigitalOcean, Linux, Pantheon, Algolia, Docker, Vercel
Storage
MySQL, WP Engine
Other
Elementor, WordPress Plugins, WordPress Themes, Responsive Design, Responsive UI, Plugins, Page Speed Optimization, Front-end Development, Web Development, OOP Designs, SOLID Principles, Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), Bootstrap UI, Servers, Dokan, HTTP Server, Design, Nonprofits, APIs
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