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WordPress and Front-end Developer
Location
Lucerne, Switzerland
Toptal Member Since
June 25, 2018
Jesse is a self-taught, multi-skilled, multi-talented front-end developer with over seven years of experience working with WordPress and front-end languages such as JavaScript, HTML, CSS, PHP, and more. He also has an additional six years of experience in graphic design.
Portfolio
Bitcoin Suisse AG
React, User Experience (UX), Figma, MUI CSS, Material UI, App UI, CSS
TokenFactory
Blockchain, Tailwind CSS, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, Vue
Muzeek
Vue, CSS, HTML, PHP, JavaScript
Experience
Availability
Part-time
Preferred Environment
Slack, Terminal, GitHub, Atom, MacOS
The most amazing...
...piece of code I've written is a WordPress theme framework that makes quick work out of converting static code into top selling premium WordPress themes.
Work Experience
UX and Art Director
2019 - 2022
Bitcoin Suisse AG
- Designed and built the companies Crypto staking interface. The product has seen assets of up to 2.5 Billion USD flow through it and has generated tens of millions in revenue.
- Created the companies design system product known as Brand DNA. The system allows teams to build new products and update old ones more effectively, consistently, and collaboratively.
- Designed the Pay 2.0 merchant product interface. Pay 2.0 has been rolled out to over 10'000 terminals in Switzerland, enabling crypto payments for the masses.
- Contributed to designing and building a regulatory-compliant blockchain agnostic process known as PROOF, which allows clients to prove ownership of their crypto assets whenever funds are moved in or out of the exchange.
- Contributed heavily to both the design and developer sprints for our Online platform, including but not limited to front-end code, wireframes, prototypes, UI designs, UX improvements, and code reviews.
Technologies: React, User Experience (UX), Figma, MUI CSS, Material UI, App UI, CSS
Front-end Developer
2018 - 2019
TokenFactory
- Oversaw the Blockimmo and STX.SWISS front-end development, including the real-estate platform (decentralized application) and company website.
- Defined and implemented clean, simple user interfaces and experiences and worked closely with graphic designers and creative talent.
- Managed all creatives and creative projects. This included managing designers, photographers, and videographers and ensuring creative projects such as logo design and marketing material were of high quality and met company identity.
- Created a new design and development process for the company to build upon. This meant incorporating Sketch and Invision as new tools for the company to use, allowing for a more efficient design pipeline.
- Familiarized myself with blockchain technology (smart contracts, ERC20, etc.) so that I could better bridge the tech gap between the users and emerging distributed ledger technology.
Technologies: Blockchain, Tailwind CSS, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, Vue
Chief of Design
2015 - 2018
Muzeek
- Designed and implemented a new single-page confirmation process that allows users to update booking information and contracts between two parties in real-time by utilizing AJAX.
- Cleaned and consolidated old repeated code into a new robust JavaScript plugin that handles much of the app's functionality.
- Created and built a marketing page animation from scratch (without utilizing an animation framework) that showcases to potential customers how the app works.
- Conceptually redesigned and subsequently built out (concept all the way through to code) the foundation of the yet to be launched version 2 app that utilizes a modern stack (Vue.js, Webpack, SCSS, etc).
- Regularly took part in brainstorming sessions and coordinated with the rest of the team in regards to maintaining best practices in design and user experience.
Technologies: Vue, CSS, HTML, PHP, JavaScript
WordPress Theme Developer
2012 - 2017
Themeforest.net (Self Employed)
- Developed and maintained my own theme framework that allowed for the rapid creation of WordPress themes and overhauled the somewhat limited feature set and scope of the core WordPress customizer experience.
- Reached a quarter of a million dollars in sales while maintaining a customer rating of 4.5 stars and up.
- Successfully designed, built, and handled customer support (concept to finished product) for a number of WordPress themes and premium plugins that over-delivered on customer satisfaction in a highly competitive marketplace.
- Constantly streamlined my development process by implementing task runners/code compilers that allowed for full live site deployment, documentation updates and zip file creation with a single command from the terminal.
- Although I worked solo, I always made a point of using best practices in regards to version control on GitHub with all commits and code commented appropriately. I also implemented appropriate PHP hooks in my themes so customers could implement 3rd party customizations without hassle.
Technologies: jQuery, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, PHP, WordPress
Experience
Token Factory
https://tokenfactory.global/After successfully launching blockimmo.ch and STX.swiss, our company wanted to consolidate both brands under a single name - enter TokenFactory.
I was tasked with ensuring we had a marketing site live within a week. Given the short lead time, I chose to design on the fly and skip the wire-framing and mockups all together.
By utilizing Vue.js, Tailwind.css and my experience in UI/UX design, the site was successfully launched on Netlify and the deadline was met.
I was tasked with ensuring we had a marketing site live within a week. Given the short lead time, I chose to design on the fly and skip the wire-framing and mockups all together.
By utilizing Vue.js, Tailwind.css and my experience in UI/UX design, the site was successfully launched on Netlify and the deadline was met.
Muzeek App
http://muzeek.com/Muzeek is a live music booking platform that venues, artists and event organizers can use to process payments, book shows and manage contacts.
As the chief of design, my role was to design and build out the entire front-end (while working with Product) to ensure we meet our customers' needs.
Note: All animations on the homepage was created by hand using only CSS and JavaScript - no bloated plugins or frameworks required.
As the chief of design, my role was to design and build out the entire front-end (while working with Product) to ensure we meet our customers' needs.
Note: All animations on the homepage was created by hand using only CSS and JavaScript - no bloated plugins or frameworks required.
Crush WordPress Portfolio Theme
The WordPress theme I created and sold on themeforest.net. This theme has over 2,300 sales with an average customer rating of 4.7 stars. Although I do not sell on themeforest.net full-time anymore, I still periodically maintain this theme for previous customers.
Blox
Blox is my very own front-end boilerplate, created to make building apps easier, faster, better.
As a genuine lover of solving problems, Blox is never really finished and while it's not yet production ready (it uses javascript that isn't fully supported cross-browser), it is a passion project of mine that I take very seriously.
As a genuine lover of solving problems, Blox is never really finished and while it's not yet production ready (it uses javascript that isn't fully supported cross-browser), it is a passion project of mine that I take very seriously.
OkayNowThis.js
https://github.com/jessengatai/okaynowthis.js/A jQuery plugin that makes pausing and resuming queued functions a cinch.
Good Design Macro (Article)
https://medium.com/@jessengatai/good-design-macro-16d49a7bbaf7An article I wrote that maps out my ideas and thoughts on what I believe makes for good design.
Skills
Languages
SCSS, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP
Libraries/APIs
Vue 2, jQuery, Vue, React
Tools
Atom, Illustrator CC, Photoshop CC, Terminal, Git, Gulp, GitHub, Slack, Sequel Pro, Grunt, Vue CLI, Sketch, Postman, Figma
Platforms
WordPress, MacOS, Blockchain, WordPress Theme Design
Other
WordPress Plugins, CSS3 Animation, WordPress Themes, Software Development, Vue Router, User Interface (UI), User Experience (UX), Responsive UX Design, Responsive Design, Responsive UI, Command-line Interface (CLI), App UI
Paradigms
Responsive Layout, Responsive Web Design (RWD), Responsive Development, MVC Design, Responsive Coding
Frameworks
Tailwind CSS, Bootstrap, MUI CSS, Material UI
Storage
MySQL
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