Miguel is available for hire

Miguel Calderón Sang

Verified Expert in Engineering

Software Developer

Location

Santo Domingo, Distrito Nacional, Dominican Republic

Toptal Member Since

January 16, 2020

Miguel is a systems engineer with a Master's degree in web engineering. He has over five years of experience working with PHP and has a particular expertise with WordPress and WooCommerce, specifically WooCommerce hooks. He understands the importance of delivering pixel-perfect work and has developed outstanding projects with many clients.

WordPress Themes WordPress Plugins WordPress HTML5 jQuery Elementor PHP MySQL PHP 7 Linux REST APIs React Laravel Divi Cloudflare

Portfolio

Yondbee Social Effects

MySQL, WooCommerce, Linux, PHP 7, React, Laravel, jQuery, WordPress, PHP, HTML5...

Freelancer

Sass, iOS, Composer, PHP, Laravel, WordPress, HTML5, CSS3

FlowHance

MySQL, WooCommerce, PHP 7, JavaScript, jQuery, WordPress, PHP, HTML5, CSS3

Experience

WordPress - 7 years MySQL - 5 years jQuery - 5 years PHP - 5 years WooCommerce - 5 years JavaScript - 4 years PHP 7 - 4 years React - 1 year

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

MacOS, Linux, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), PhpStorm

The most amazing...

...project I've developed was a large platform for Adecco. It has over 400,000 users and eCommerce with custom booking services.

Work Experience

Web Developer

2018 - PRESENT

Yondbee Social Effects

Worked with clients that have offices in more than 47 countries.
Created an eCommerce site with custom booking functionality. Used technologies like React and Laravel.
Worked on multiple projects at the same time using different technologies.

Technologies: MySQL, WooCommerce, Linux, PHP 7, React, Laravel, jQuery, WordPress, PHP, HTML5, CSS3

Web Engineer

2014 - PRESENT

Freelancer

Delivered over 20 highly customized projects, most of them built from scratch.
Assisted clients with the digitalization of their companies, from web solutions to the logic of business, to automatization of the process.
Organized legacy code with a control version and different environments for testing purposes.
Sped up web performance from 13 to three seconds for loading.

Technologies: Sass, iOS, Composer, PHP, Laravel, WordPress, HTML5, CSS3

Web Developer

2017 - 2018

FlowHance

Created several custom themes with highly detailed designs.
Created custom plugins for big companies related to the music industries.
Developed several jQuery and Vanilla JavaScript custom functionalities to accomplish unique, out-of-the-box designs.

Technologies: MySQL, WooCommerce, PHP 7, JavaScript, jQuery, WordPress, PHP, HTML5, CSS3

Web Developer

2014 - 2017

Pascal & Bull

Developed projects for various complanies with custom blogs and lots of markup.
Created pixel-perfect landing pages for American companies.
Worked with San Isidro Free zone on several projects. Built architecture for their applications.

Technologies: MySQL, WooCommerce, PHP 7, jQuery, JavaScript, WordPress, PHP, HTML5, CSS3

Experience

eCommerce Booking Service

This eCommerce site was built in WordPress and had a custom booking service. I retooled the original plugin to enable better compatibility and flexibility. I also used WooCommerce and a dashboard for managers to work with their products.

Adecco CEO-finding Platform

https://www.ceoforonemonth.com/

This project allows companies to choose their own CEO by recruiting candidates from over 47 countries. Users keep filtering candidates until the right one is found. Everything was developed in PHP and JavaScript, integrated with different APIs such as LinkedIn and Facebook, with a custom dashboard for managers.

Grandes Viviendas

http://gvre.es/

This was a pre-bought WordPress theme I customized with an opal estate forked plugin to improve the ability to manage services. I synced the API with the platform to the client's properties and website with several custom data and CRUD functionalities.

Local Medicare pro

This is a WordPress/Elementor solution using a custom theme and custom plugins with API integration. Data is dynamic with the test environment. It has a custom form with jQuery animations, is mobile responsive, and contains a highly customized front end built from scratch based on design specifications.

Play in School

https://www.playinschool.com/

A college recruiting project based on WordPress. I made the subscription for the players doing some custom integration with pilot press worked on the search table, subscription page and improvements in general.

Rosenman Institute

https://rosenmaninstitute.org

Health Technology website with different features, developed with Custom Blocks using ACF, SASS, and JavaScript. I was in charge of developing everything from back-end to front-end, getting the design from Figma to WordPress.

Forever Magic

https://www.forevermagicrealty.com/

Web for showing properties for a realty company. I was in charge of the whole project. It was done in WordPress using custom blocks for dynamic content, implemented a custom plugin for the custom blocks, and a custom theme for the header, footer, and any custom template.

55places.com

http://55places.com

A web real-estate platform that was migrated from Laravel/React to WordPress. It was integrated by an API and the data was migrated to WordPress using core tables and custom MySQL tables. I created a custom plugin to integrate all the stakeholder's requirements into the project.

Skills

Languages

HTML5, CSS3, PHP 7, JavaScript, PHP, SQL, Sass, CSS, Java, SCSS

Libraries/APIs

jQuery, REST APIs, React

Tools

Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), Gutenberg Editor, Composer, Webpack, Figma, PhpStorm

Platforms

WordPress, WooCommerce, Linux, Windows, MacOS, iOS, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Web

Other

CSS Preprocessors, WordPress Themes, WordPress Plugins, Elementor, Visual Composer, APIs, Cloudflare

Storage

MySQL

Frameworks

Laravel, Divi, .NET

Paradigms

Agile

Education

2018 - 2019

Master's Degree in Web Engineering

Universidad Politécnica de Madrid - Madrid, Spain

2011 - 2016

Bachelor's Degree in Systems Engineering

Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo - Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

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