Manuel Rodriguez
Verified Expert in Engineering
Software Developer
Manuel is a confident WordPress and PHP developer with more than eight years of experience in the field. He has been freelancing and working remotely for the past four years, and he knows all the ins and outs of WordPress development. While plugin development is his specialty, he can cover whatever needs to be covered in your business. Essentially, if you have an idea, he can implement it on WordPress.
Portfolio
Availability
Preferred Environment
Vim Text Editor, MacOS, PhpStorm, Vagrant, Git
The most amazing...
...thing I've coded is a notification system for a crowdfunding platform; used SNS, Lambda functions, & DynamoDB for decoupling the heavy workload from WordPress.
Work Experience
Senior PHP Developer (Freelance)
Learning Tapestry, Inc.
- Supported different Symfony 2.x projects.
- Developed a middleware to connect to systems using Cilex and Codeception for TDD.
- Maintained a Drupal project.
Senior WordPress Back-end Developer
Capital Cell
- Developed and expanded Capital Cell's crowdfunding platform (the first European biotech platform with 10 million in investments and more than 3,000 investors in 2017).
- Made scalability and architectural decisions.
- Developed all kinds of integrations within the platform with third-party APIs.
- Built a scalable notification system using SNS, Lambda, and DynamoDD; decoupling the responsibility from WordPress.
- Developed a core functionality and expanded the platform.
WordPress and WooCommerce Developer (Freelance)
Bobles
- Supported, enhanced, and developed this eCommerce project based on WooCommerce.
- Automated the internal tasks.
- Integrated third-party tools into WooCommerce.
WordPress Back-end Developer (Freelance)
Endouble
- Supported the team in maintaining and running a variety of projects.
- Integrated the ATS API.
- Designed advanced WordPress architectures.
Agile Technical Product Manager | Co-founder
Propietarios App
- Co-founded this startup.
- Translated the business requirements for the development side; including communication and coordination.
- Implemented Agile techniques: Scrum sprints and a Scrum blackboard.
- Gave technical guidance to the development and architectural design teams.
PHP/WordPress Developer (Freelance)
Plytix
- Developed their PHP SDK and implemented their service and API into WordPress and PrestaShop. More information about my individual projects can be found in my portfolio.
WordPress Back-end Developer
Netwerven
- Developed and ensured the scalability and quality of the gateway.
- Built different plugins for the in-house WordPress framework.
- Integrated several ATS systems (Recruitment APIs).
- Worked as a Scrum evangelist within the organization.
PHP Developer
Spil Games
- Worked on a project that had more than 180 millions users per month.
- Built the PHP back-end for a payments service which handled all in-game cash transactions.
- Developed within Agile (Scrum) environment and test-driven (TDD and BDD) methodology.
- Optimized, maintained, and supported the platform.
- Created in-house tools for different departments while working closely with the front-end team.
- Researched and implemented new features that expanded the scope and enriched the system.
- Developed different API REST interfaces which allowed third parties to integrate with us.
- Collaborated with the A/B testing (SiteSpect) team (JavaScript, MooTools).
Web Developer
Babelpower
- Integrated APIs and developed bots (spiders) for clients in the travel industry (hotels and flights).
- Made intensive use of regular expressions.
Experience
Tus Temas WordPress
http://www.tustemaswordpress.com/Transact.io
https://es.wordpress.org/plugins/transact/Internal Plugin
https://www.thecolvinco.com/Plytix | SDK PHP
Plytix | WooCommerce
https://es.wordpress.org/plugins/plytix-for-woocommerce/.Plytix | PrestaShop
Skills
Languages
PHP 7, PHP, JavaScript, HTML5, HTML, CSS
Libraries/APIs
WordPress REST API, jQuery, MooTools
Tools
PhpStorm, Vagrant, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Sublime Text 3, Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS), Behat, Git, Vim Text Editor, PrestaShop, SiteSpect, NPM, Grunt, Adyen Payments
Paradigms
Scrum, Object-oriented Programming (OOP), Agile Software Development, Test-driven Development (TDD), Behavior-driven Development (BDD), Agile
Platforms
WordPress, AWS Lambda, Linux, Docker, MacOS, Drupal, Amazon Web Services (AWS), WooCommerce
Other
APIs, Certified Scrum Developer, OOP Designs, Agile Sprints, Agile Software Testing, Ajax, CILEx, WordPress Themes, Payment APIs
Frameworks
Symfony 2, Codeception, Symfony, PHPUnit, CakePHP
Storage
Amazon DynamoDB, MySQL, MongoDB
Education
Scrum Developer Certificate in Agile Engineering
QWAN | Quality Without a Name - The Netherlands
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science and Engineering
UPJS | Pavol Jozef Šafárik University - Kosice, Slovakia
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science and Engineering
University of Malaga - Malaga, Spain
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