Laurentiu Arghirescu, Developer in Bucharest, Romania
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Laurentiu Arghirescu

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Full-stack Developer

Bucharest, Romania

Toptal member since November 11, 2021

Bio

Laurentiu is a full-stack developer with over 10 years of experience building WordPress and jQuery plugins and WordPress themes. Throughout his career, he successfully developed and launched more than 100 products on markets like Codecanyon.net and Elements.envato.com. The plugins he built are used in more than 100,000 websites and generated over $1 million in sales. Laurentiu is looking for new and challenging projects that allow him to work with WordPress and JavaScript.

Portfolio

Lambert Group
PHP, JavaScript, Ajax, HTML, HTML5, CSS, CSS3, Bootstrap, Elementor, WPBakery...
Site-Mile
WordPress, PHP, CSS, HTML, HTML5, JavaScript, CSS3, Bootstrap, Elementor...
Davinci Graphics Inc. Filial Buc. Romania
PHP, JavaScript, MySQL, CSS, HTML, Ajax, Web Development, Back-end Development

Experience

  • CSS - 15 years
  • PHP - 15 years
  • HTML - 15 years
  • JavaScript - 12 years
  • WordPress Plugins - 12 years
  • WordPress - 12 years
  • jQuery - 10 years
  • WordPress Themes - 5 years

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

WordPress

The most amazing...

...plugins I've created won competitions and were featured on the Envato Market as the best-selling products for weeks.

Work Experience

Senior Full-stack Developer

2008 - PRESENT
Lambert Group
  • Created and launched WordPress plugins, WPBakery add-ons, Elementor widgets, and jQuery plugins on the Codecanyon.net market.
  • Kept up with updating plugins, add-ons, and widgets regularly and offered client support when needed.
  • Built a portfolio of plugins that generated over $1 million in sales (1.envato.market/Ao2rax).
Technologies: PHP, JavaScript, Ajax, HTML, HTML5, CSS, CSS3, Bootstrap, Elementor, WPBakery, WordPress, WordPress Plugins, WordPress Themes, jQuery, Git, GitLab, PayPal API, Stripe API, PayPal, Stripe, MySQL, API Integration, WordPress Design, Web Development, Back-end Development, Responsive Web Design (RWD), Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), Beaver Builder

Senior Full-stack Developer

2021 - 2021
Site-Mile
  • Created multiple WordPress themes with integrated payment gateways like PayPal, Stripe, and Payfast.
  • Used Git as the version control system through each step of the theme development.
  • Created additional plugins, like invoices and memberships, to integrate with the themes' increasing functionality.
Technologies: WordPress, PHP, CSS, HTML, HTML5, JavaScript, CSS3, Bootstrap, Elementor, WPBakery, WordPress Plugins, WordPress Themes, jQuery, Ajax, Git, GitLab, PayPal API, Stripe API, PayPal, Stripe, MySQL, API Integration, WordPress Design, Web Development, Back-end Development, Responsive Web Design (RWD), Advanced Custom Fields (ACF)

Junior Full-stack Developer

2004 - 2008
Davinci Graphics Inc. Filial Buc. Romania
  • Created and upgraded the websites of a media company in the US.
  • Built the tools to generate online magazines from PDF files, display video content, and send newsletters.
  • Collaborated in building and maintaining over 30 websites for the food, beverage, and packaging industries.
Technologies: PHP, JavaScript, MySQL, CSS, HTML, Ajax, Web Development, Back-end Development

Junior Full-stack Developer

2003 - 2004
Edarom Design
  • Created multiple websites for different local companies.
  • Developed a custom-made content management system (CMS) for each website, which allowed the client to easily update their website. This was necessary before the launch of CodeIgniter, Joomla, and other frameworks.
  • Built a CMS that allowed the company to deliver fast and easy-to-maintain websites.
Technologies: PHP, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, MySQL, Web Development, Ajax, Back-end Development

Most Wanted WordPress Plugins Pack

The "Most Wanted WordPress Plugins Pack" is a collection of WordPress plugins that includes premium sliders, logo showcase, full-screen images, video backgrounds, image and video galleries, audio players, video players, radio players, carousels, countdowns, multimedia accordion, event calendar, and Christmas cards.

After receiving the design, I took charge of the plugins' full-stack programming.

Hero - Shoutcast and Icecast Radio Player with History | WordPress Plugin

https://codecanyon.net/item/hero-shoutcast-and-icecast-radio-player-with-history-wordpress-plugin/19364283
A premium HTML5 radio player with support for ShoutCast, IceCast, AzuraCast, and RadioJar streams. Because of its high quality, it was featured on the CodeCanyon market as the top WordPress radio player plugin.

The player integrates the audio DB API to display the artist's image, ensuring they're displayed at a high resolution. To cover all clients' needs, I've additionally built the Elementor Widget and WPBakery Addon.

This player only uses JavaScript to read the current playing song and the history. By that means, it will have no restrictions from the servers. A PHP solution might need the radio PORT opened if the radio PORT is not the standard 80 or 443. I also have experience with radio players using PHP, like this one: codecanyon.net/item/shout-html5-radio-player-with-ads-shoutcast-and-icecast-support-wordpress-plugin/20667135.

Universal Video Player | WordPress Plugin

https://codecanyon.net/item/universal-video-player-wordpress-plugin/9683312
The Universal Video Player supports YouTube, Vimeo, and self-hosted videos. It's a top-notch responsive HTML5 plugin compatible with all major browsers and mobile devices.

For YouTube videos, all that is needed is the YouTube video ID. The plugin will get the other necessary information from the YouTube server using the YouTube API.

To cover all clients' needs, I've also built the Elementor Widget and WPBakery Addon.

Custom Website with Custom Theme

A website where a custom WordPress theme was created to handle the front-end and back-end development. The client has full control of all the website information, and with just a few clicks, he can modify the content of the pages, header or footer menus, and social channels and manage the offer requests.
1999 - 2003

Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics and Computer Science

University of Bucharest - Bucharest, Romania

Libraries/APIs

jQuery, PayPal API, Stripe API, Stripe

Tools

WPBakery, Git, GitLab, Advanced Custom Fields (ACF)

Languages

PHP, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, HTML5, CSS3

Platforms

WordPress

Storage

MySQL

Frameworks

Bootstrap

Paradigms

Responsive Web Design (RWD)

Other

WordPress Plugins, WordPress Themes, Ajax, Elementor, PayPal, API Integration, WordPress Design, Web Development, Back-end Development, Front-end Development, PSD to WordPress, Beaver Builder

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