Michael Joseph G. Panaga

Baanguru is one of the biggest real estate website in Thailand.

My responsibilities as the lead developer of this project are, but not limited to:

- Custom WordPress development
- Database optimization
- Server management and optimization
- Integrating other technologies to meet the website's needs (Google Maps API, AWS EC2, Amazon Elastic Search, Amazon RDS, etc.)

Client's problems:

- The client wants to be able to sell WordPress plugins in his own WordPress website and allow automatic updates to buyers with valid purchase keys.

- The client also wants to be able to create a continuous deployment setup which pushes automatic updates to his buyers whenever his developer pushes an update.

Solution

- Installed and configured WordPress and WooCommerce where the client can sell WordPress plugins.

- Installed WooCommerce API Keys Manager to the client's website and integrated it in his WordPress plugins to verify purchase keys and allow automatic updates to verified buyers.

- Created a plugin that downloads the latest tags from his WordPress plugins' repositories and updates the WooCommerce products associated to the repositories with the latest .zip files and info which will then be a push as automatic updates to the buyers.

Client's Problem

- Have an "Add to quote cart" button in their WordPress + WooCommeerce website.
- The "Add to quote cart" button should be able to put multiple products in the cart and remove them much like a normal shopping cart but instead of proceeding to checkout, the visitor will be asked to submit a form.
- Create a back end page in the WP admin dashboard where the admin can easily see the "Add to quote cart" submissions with all the data.
- Cut man-hours by automatically generating a Word Document and a PDF document with the info of the products added in the quote cart (product image, price, and custom attributes) and sending it to the admin's email.

Solution

- Developed a custom WordPress plugin from scratch which addressed all the points above.
- The new plugin works perfectly well with the WooCommerce plugin and will not in any way break when the WooCommerce plugin needs to be updated.
- The new plugin automatically generates the needed Word document and PDF effectively cutting manual work.
- The new plugin takes advantage of the website's WordPress theme to make the UI look and feel "natural"
- The new plugin works properly and fast in a shared web hosting environment.

Client's Problem

- Needs to have an easy and automated way to scrape coupons from the web and import them as WordPress posts on the website.

Solution

- Created a plugin from scratch that will scrape coupons from the web. Scrape information includes images, coupon title, coupon description, and the coupon code. The scraped coupon will then be imported as a WordPress post on the right categories. The plugin has it's own plugin page on the WordPress Dashboard to make the whole importing process easy. A cron was also setup to make the whole import process automated.

HelpeeApp is a mobile app marketplace platform to find and create tasks.

My Roles:

• Planned, designed, and developed the website and mobile apps (iOS and Android) of the platform.
• Increased understanding of what the end consumers want and needs.
• Released the mobile apps in Google Playstore and Appstore.
• Experienced conducting interview to early users for valuable feedback.
• Started to grow as a team leader when I started to hire a part-time designer.
• First-hand experience in marketing to present my startup to users.