Silvestar Bistrović
Verified Expert in Engineering
UI Developer
Josipovac, Croatia
Toptal member since April 6, 2017
Silvestar is a fearless web engineer, CSS developer, Jamstack enthusiast, and WordPress theme specialist. He enjoys creating pixel-perfect, responsive, and modern websites. His focus is on delivering the best experience for users on every device, making faster, lighter, and more secure sites using WordPress or static page generators. When Silvestar is not coding, he likes to write new articles on his blog.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Git, Terminal, Chrome, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), MacOS
The most amazing...
...websites I've built using WordPress and static site generators got the perfect score from Google PageSpeed Insights, 100/100.
Work Experience
Freelance Web Developer
Self-employed
- Worked with prominent clients from all over the world, including the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, Denmark, Spain, and Saudi Arabia.
- Specialized in building modern, responsive user interfaces.
- Worked with many different platforms such as WordPress, Shopify, Jekyll, and Hugo.
Front-end Developer
Farmeron
- Built a style guide for an enterprise dairy industry system.
- Developed an application for generating dynamic reports of dairy processes using AngularJS.
- Created a single-page dairy industry application using the UI library.
- Worked on building an interface for the dairy industry modules.
- Organized front-end workshops for a cross-functional team of more than twenty developers.
Web Developer
ICTmedia
- Worked on an interface for a business intelligence application.
- Delivered complete CRM solution for a local business incubator, including handling every tenant, generating monthly-based reports, and generating invoices.
- Delivered a complete CRM solution for a property agency, including handling every real estate property, generating custom brochures, and publishing real estate on a live site.
- Delivered an application for handling property-based call centers.
- Worked on the development of a custom CMS solution for multi-language websites.
Experience
Web Developer
https://www.wundermobility.com/Westwing
https://www.westwing.com/Domino Data Lab
https://www.dominodatalab.com/Credit Card Insider
https://www.creditcardinsider.com/The website runs on WordPress and WP Engine. I took responsibility for developing and maintaining the company website.
Pinecone
https://www.pinecone.io/Bozzuto
https://www.bozzuto.com/I developed UI components for the company website.
TheGrio
https://thegrio.com/Little Bundle
https://littlebundle.com/Domino Data Lab Pop-up
https://www.dominodatalab.com/Model-driven companies, including Allstate, Dell Technologies, and Bayer, use Domino as a data science system of record to accelerate breakthrough research, increase collaboration, and rapidly deliver high-impact models.
The website runs on WordPress.
Domino Data Lab Rev
https://rev.dominodatalab.com/The website runs on Jekyll.
Contiamo
https://www.contiamo.com/The site runs on Middleman, Webpack, Netlify, and GitHub.
Moodings
Calvert
https://www.calvert.com/invest-with-purpose.phpNetki
https://netki.com/Han Han Xue
https://www.hanhanxue.com/The site runs on Middleman, Netlify, and Bitbucket. Featured on JAMstack.
Irina and Matej
https://irinaandmatej.com/The site runs on WordPress, DigitalOcean, and Cloudflare.
Education
Master's Degree in Communications and Information
Faculty of Electrical Engineering - Osijek, Croatia
Skills
Libraries/APIs
jQuery, Liquid, WordPress REST API, Parallax, Node.js
Tools
Gulp, Git, Jekyll, Terminal, ACF PRO, Shopify Plus, Middleman, Figma, Webpack
Languages
Hugo, JavaScript, CSS, ECMAScript (ES6), Markdown, HTML5, CSS3, Sass, SCSS, HTML, PHP
Frameworks
Chrome, Bootstrap, Vanilla JS, AngularJS
Paradigms
Jamstack, BEM, Responsive Web Design (RWD), On-page SEO, Agile, UI Design
Platforms
Netlify, MacOS, WordPress, Contentful, Shopify, HubSpot
Storage
WP Engine
Other
GitFlow, Site Speed Optimization, CSS3 Animation, Blogging, Style Guides, Critical-path CSS, WordPress Themes, User Experience (UX), SVG, Front-end, User Interface (UI), Page Speed Optimization, Pixel Perfect, Web UI, UI Development, Integration, Landing Pages, Landing Page Optimization, Google Fonts, PSD Slicing, PSD, PSD to HTML, UI Animation, API Integration, eCommerce, Design, Lottie, HubSpot CRM
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