Jorge Benjumea Gomez
Verified Expert in Engineering
WordPress Developer
Jorge is a full-stack PHP developer, DevOps, SEO consultant, and project manager. With more than 22 years of work experience in the IT sector, he has always been passionate about learning and enjoying new challenges to solve. Jorge's life motto states that when working hard, nothing is impossible. Thanks to being a fast learner, self-taught, and curious person, he has acquired a lot of multidisciplinary experience in different areas, including systems, networks, and development.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Linux, Amazon Web Services (AWS), PHP 7, MySQL, WordPress, Laravel, Node.js, Web Marketing, SQL
The most amazing...
...project I've developed is a highly effective SEO and growth sales strategy with bots and automatizations for OpenAI, WhatsApp, Twitter, Telegram, and Wallapop.
Work Experience
Full-stack Developer, Project Manager, and SysAdmin, WordPress eCommerce, and E-learning Expert
Freelance Clients
- Collaborated for several years in webpositer.com, developing many custom SEO tools used by thousands of customers online with PHP and Node.js.
- Developed highly effective SEO and growth sales strategies with bots and automatizations for OpenAI, WhatsApp, Twitter, Telegram, and Wallapop. Scraped online data like Google SERPs, Google My Business, and YouTube.
- Built over 1,000 small and medium business websites, mostly highly customized WordPress, WooCommerce, LearnDash, and SEO optimized.
- Optimized and monetized websites with high traffic, over 1,5 million page views per month, by customizing cloud hosting, SEO growth strategy managing, and tailoring CMS, including core, theme, and plugins.
- Collaborated in developing SaaS modules with PHP Laravel or Symphony in esferize.com and other medium-sized companies.
- Managed the online marketing area for an online school with over 1,500 students for almost two years.
Project Manager
InfoGLOBAL S.A
- Managed reshaping the L3 line of Madrid's underground railway project as the telecommunications subcontractor. It was a three-year project with a budget of more than 1.5 million euros.
- Performed as project manager of the centralized ops control for light rail lines T1, T2, and T3 project for Madrid's underground railway.
- Led the communications of the new line of the east metro project for Madrid's underground railway with a 6.5 million euros budget.
- Reviewed incidents and commissioning of other elements of the underground railway within the 2003-2007 expansion plan.
- Remodeled and expanded Madrid's underground systems and subway stations.
- Implemented several projects of the new multiservice IP telecommunications network for the railway infrastructure manager at a national level.
- Collaborated in the project management to implement communications, switchboard security systems, and video surveillance services in the collective transport system.
Staff Coordinator | Maintenance Department
InfoGLOBAL S.A.
- Performed as technical director and staff coordinator of Madrid's underground railway maintenance projects.
- Maintained telecommunications substructure, the integration IP platform of closed-circuit television (CCTV) codification with more than 1,500 cameras, IP telephony, and other systems.
- Created and organized the department from zero as a unique manager. I also dealt with customers and with the managers inside the business.
- Implanted incidences management systems and created the material management system with Oracle and Access databases.
- Designed and operated net monitoring with HP Openview, HostMonitor, and InfoGLOBAL's Traffic Grapher (IGTG) based on a multi Router Traffic Grapher (MRTG). I also implemented servers and applications to centralize information and transmission.
- Backed up the company's engineering tasks, including design, programming, implementation of IGTG, and development of monitoring systems.
Networking Technician
InfoGLOBAL S.A.
- Assisted in maintenance projects that provided service 24/7.
- Supported networking engineers in fixing networking problems.
- Collaborated with networking engineers to fix CCTV problems.
Experience
Over 1,000 WordPress Websites Developed
I managed various end-to-end projects, cloud hosting, theme customization, custom plugins, and SEO for online marketing.
Node.js and PHP Bots and Automatizations
Also, scraped online data like Google Serps, Google My Business, and YouTube.
Laravel and Simfony Development of Modules for In-house SaaS
We also developed the back end for many custom SEO tools thousands of customers use online in Spain.
Head of Marketing Online Area
We used Moodle to manage content and students, optimize the cloud infrastructure, customize themes, and develop core customizations, new features, and the online marketing strategy.
Education
Graduate Coursework in Computer Engineering
Complutense University of Madrid - Madrid, Spain
Undergraduate Coursework in IT System Manager FPIII
Institute of Secondary Education La Arboleda - Madrid, Spain
Skills
Languages
JavaScript, PHP, CSS3, HTML5, PHP 7, CSS, HTML, SQL, Bash Script
Libraries/APIs
Stripe, Node.js, WordPress API, Stripe API, WooCommerce API, WordPress REST API, REST APIs, jQuery, React
Paradigms
Web Performance Optimization (WPO), Responsive Web Design (RWD), REST, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Management
Platforms
WordPress, WooCommerce, Linux, Amazon EC2, Video Platforms, Shopify, Docker, Windows, LAMP, LEMP, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Industry Expertise
Web Design
Other
WordPress Themes, Web Development, WordPress Plugins, Website Maintenance, Troubleshooting, Technical Product Management, eCommerce, WordPress Optimization, WordPress Management, Web Marketing, SEO Audits, SEO Tools, APIs, Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP), TCP/IP, DNS Servers, Learning Management Systems (LMS), QA Testing, Elementor, WordPress Design, Gravity Forms, Landing Pages, User Interface (UI), User Experience (UX), Video Players, Back-end, Amazon RDS, Plugins, Data Migration, Payment APIs, eBay, PayPal, Forms, Ajax, HTTP REST, Projects, Algorithms, Servers, Development, IT Projects, Cisco, CCTV, Cloud
Tools
Moodle, LearnDash, NGINX, Apache, Amazon CloudFront CDN, Amazon Simple Email Service (SES), Google Analytics, GitHub, Git, Mathematica
Storage
LAMP Server, MySQL, JSON, Amazon S3 (AWS S3)
Frameworks
Laravel, Bootstrap
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