
Richard Venâncio
Verified Expert in Engineering
WordPress Developer
São Paulo - State of São Paulo, Brazil
Toptal member since January 26, 2022
Richard is a software developer with 15+ years of experience and an advanced understanding of building from scratch, maintaining WordPress themes, plugins, and Gutenberg blocks, and modern web development fundamentals with PHP, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, React, and jQuery. He is skilled in writing clean, well-structured, readable, and shareable code. Richard learns fast, has excellent communication skills, and is passionate about finding simple solutions to complex problems.
Portfolio
Experience
- CSS - 17 years
- JavaScript - 17 years
- PHP - 17 years
- MySQL - 17 years
- WordPress Themes - 11 years
- WordPress - 11 years
- WooCommerce - 7 years
- React - 2 years
Availability
Preferred Environment
PHP, JavaScript, React, WordPress, WooCommerce, MySQL, Git, Gutenberg Editor, WordPress API, WordPress SEO
The most amazing...
...thing I've done is optimize and enhance a big financial portal built on WordPress and Gutenberg, significantly boosting revenue, impressions, and user sessions.
Work Experience
Senior Full-stack Developer
PackSystem Self-employed
- Managed and created all kinds of jobs with PHP and WordPress.
- Managed a small team for two years, with two designers and one developer.
- Created many types of administrative systems for finance controlling, issuing invoices, issuing billets, proms, human resources, a process for buying cars, scholarships, schedules, accountants, and others.
- Built websites with WordPress, mainly creating a customized theme and specific dashboard functions. Used Visual Composer, Elementor, WooCommerce, and other notorious plugins. Followed the layout details 99% of the time, focused on user experience.
Senior Software Engineer | WordPress and PHP
Solvd
- Refactored website CSS, introduced critical CSS, and enabled lazy loading, reducing page size by 544kb and improving core web vitals (TTFB: -23ms, FCP: -128ms, LCP: -837ms, TTI: -923ms).
- Implemented performance optimizations and new features that boosted sessions, clicks, and impressions by 33%, setting a new single-day revenue record, 8.8% higher than the previous January peak.
- Developed many custom Gutenberg blocks, like calculators and specific functionalities. Also, I created a comparing mortgage rates block, enhancing the editor experience and driving a 30% increase in conversions.
- Improved event tracking in collaboration with the Business Intelligence Manager, providing better insights for the content team.
WordPress Developer
CoStar Group - Main
- Recreated the site using only Gutenberg, a WordPress editor, replacing WPBackery and Elementor.
- Tracked and improved points on the CSS and HTML to use fewer HTML nodes and less CSS code.
- Improved PageSpeed points from 24 – 30 to 68 – 75. Without GTM, we achieved a score of 90.
Senior Full-stack Developer
Self-employed - LearnTech
- Developed a tool for online tests with essays and multiple-options questions, recording candidates through a camera. Applied more than 310,000 tests.
- Built a portal with WordPress and WooCommerce to offer scholarships. The most amazing part is the tool that imports offers and products from the client, allowing them to import more than 2,000 products in a couple of minutes.
- Improved the database performance by over 70% by creating an appropriate index with the right columns.
Web Developer Analyst
E|OU
- Created a small mobile for Peugeot, with a QR code reader to give customers more information about the cars at the car salon.
- Created a portal for Tam, named TamKids, with content about aviation directly for kids.
- Built the company site with WordPress and the new browser.
- Created a tool for Labor Print to enable their customers to customize a calendar by setting sentences per day and images per month. The calendars were later printed and delivered to the customer.
Web Analyst
PCI Integrated Management Services
- Developed a system web for the seller to check the sales and ask for support.
- Tracked and fixed bugs in the legacy system in Visual Basic 6 (VB6).
- Developed a new website for the company with Joomla.
Computer Technician
University of Sao Paulo
- Created a system to manage the creation of badges for new employees.
- Developed a system to create a parking ticket, using PDF to print it.
- Built a function to throw the salaries on the bank system, using the pattern CNAB 400.
- Created a system to evaluate the professors' research each year. The system counts with the option to create new questions with different weights.
Experience
Sloop App for Kids Daycare
http://agendasloop.com.brAs the full-stack developer, I created the front end with Ionic and AngularJS for the first version and evolved it to Ionic with React. The back end was developed with PHP and MySQL, using Bootstrap as CSS framework and jQuery. I used Firebase to create a quick update content tool and the real-time chat module. OneSignal was the chosen option for the notifications.
WordPress Website with Custom Quotes
https://springway.com.br/Scholarship Portal
https://cruzeirodosulcorporativa.com.br/WordPress was used with WooCommerce for the front end. The biggest problem was the process of importing these offers, as they change almost every month, so I created a tool to import CSV files with the offers. The tricky part was doing these import processes, which were done with a deep knowledge of MySQL structure. Nowadays, it is possible to import a CSV with more than 2,000 lines in a couple of minutes.
The tool has a dashboard with charts. The customer controls the number of exams finished and other screens such as site check essays, add questions and essay themes, add professor to check essays, create as many exams as needed, reports, and CSV export.
Quote WordPress Plugin
Website Blog for Travelers
WordPress Website with WooCommerce Quotes
http://spinelevel.com.brInternal System
SYSTEM CAPABILITIES
• Manage clients, passwords, and bills.
• Issue invoices and billets.
• Integrate gateways.
• Create finance charts.
• Make cron functions.
• Build user groups with different sets of access.
• Set up an automated page to create other pages based on database tables.
• Facilitate the dynamic creation of an assisted tutorial for each page.
New Website for [TH]XM
PediaWise
https://pediawise.comClassic Floor Designs
https://classicfloordesigns.info/New Website for HumanitiesDC
https://humanitiesdc.org/Education
Specialization in Consulting and Technology Web
Impacta Faculty of Technology - São Paulo, Brazil
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
Paulista University - São Paulo, Brazil
Technician in Information Technology
SENAC - São Paulo, Brazil
Skills
Libraries/APIs
jQuery, React, Stripe, WordPress API, WordPress REST API
Tools
Git, OneSignal, Adobe Fireworks, Photoshop CC, Illustrator CC, Google Analytics, Gutenberg Editor, Figma, NPM, Webpack, Wix
Languages
PHP, JavaScript, SQL, CSS, HTML, Java, Visual Basic, Delphi, Active Server Pages (ASP), PHP 7, CSS3, PHP 8
Frameworks
Bootstrap, Ionic 4, Ionic, ASP.NET, AngularJS
Paradigms
Responsive Web Design (RWD), On-page SEO, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Responsive Layout
Platforms
WordPress, Web, WooCommerce, Firebase, Joomla, Twilio Segment
Storage
MySQL, SQL Server 2005, SQL Performance, Datadog
Other
Web Development, Development, Performance, WordPress Themes, WordPress Plugins, Programming, Mobile Web, Responsive UI, Content Management Systems (CMS), WordPress Customization, Google SEO, User Interface (UI), User Experience (UX), SEO Tools, Marketing Mix, SAP, PHP Performance, SVG, PSD to WordPress, Subscription Processing, PayPal, Newsletters, Optimization, WordPress Theme Customization, WordPress Optimization, WordPress SEO
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