Stefan Vitasovic, Developer in Belgrade, Serbia
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Stefan Vitasovic

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JavaScript Developer

Location
Belgrade, Serbia
Toptal Member Since
October 18, 2018

Stefan is a creative front-end engineer inspired by modern interactive layouts and smooth animations. With his sensibility to design, he is focused on developing high-end UI and UX. Having worked on close to 150 web projects so far with various design and development teams, he loves being on board from the initial concept until the final deployment. He is passionate about bringing digital ideas to life.

Portfolio

Qode Themes
Adobe Photoshop, WordPress, PHP, Ajax, jQuery, JavaScript, SCSS, CSS3, HTML5
Qode Themes
WordPress, jQuery, CSS3, HTML5

Experience

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Windows, Visual Studio Code (VS Code)

The most amazing...

...privilege was to achieve the Site of the Day and Developer Award within the Awwwards community.

Work Experience

Lead Front-end Developer

2015 - PRESENT
Qode Themes
  • Developed creative concepts for premium WordPress themes as one of the leading ThemeForest authors.
  • Programmed creative front-end focusing on web interactivity with high-end UI and UX.
  • Developed and implemented highly interactive front-end features with corresponding back-end logic.
  • Offered both strategic and creative decisions related to the implementation of new concepts and functionalities.
  • Developed custom WP theme shortcodes i.e. page layouts, sliders, and carousels, fullscreen designs, portfolio lists etc. with a special focus on engaging landing pages.
  • Collaborated with a number of teams - developers, designers, and content editors. Participated in development of close to 150 premium WordPress themes currently available on ThemeForest.
Technologies: Adobe Photoshop, WordPress, PHP, Ajax, jQuery, JavaScript, SCSS, CSS3, HTML5

WordPress Themes Support Consultant

2014 - 2015
Qode Themes
  • Provided customer support for premium WordPress themes buyers through emails and ticketing system.
  • Maintained WordPress themes.
  • Created theme documentation.
Technologies: WordPress, jQuery, CSS3, HTML5

Personal Portfolio

https://stefan.lynxdev.io/
A creative showcase of my work portfolio - designed and developed as engaging fullscreen layouts with scroll-based effects featuring video showreels of featured projects.

Etienne - Refined Multipurpose WordPress Theme

https://etienne.elated-themes.com/animated-slider
As a creative lead, I've agreed with the designer to go for a more interactive approach and breathe some life into existing designs. This project is full of timed bezier-based loading effects, nice UI hover effects, as well as other more innovative features.

I’ve really enjoyed developing a custom fullscreen carousel which incorporates more interactive slide transitions. Another interesting functionality is the

Penumbra - A Contemporary Multi-concept Portfolio

http://penumbra.edge-themes.com/landing
Creative front-end programming for a premium WordPress theme, featuring custom landing page concept I’ve created to showcase the dual skin feature along with custom parallax scrolling effect for homepage items.

To emphasize modern design tendencies within this project I’ve developed multiple highly interactive layouts which include a custom fullscreen scroll-triggered slider with images crossfading inside a laptop frame synced with the corresponding textual description, parallax scrolling portfolio lists, and full-page interactive links layout.

Featured:
- Case Study Slider: http://penumbra.edge-themes.com/case-study-slider
- Interactive Links: http://penumbra.edge-themes.com/interactive-links

Bard - A Theatre and Performing Arts Theme

http://bard.mikado-themes.com/landing
The idea I had with this project was to introduce contemporary and interactive content behavior into each homepage. I’ve worked as a creative lead here closely co-operating with the designer. We wanted to showcase the dynamic nature of motion blending theatre and performing arts with modern web design. Each homepage was carefully tailored in that sense. The result is a premium WordPress theme featuring smooth parallax scrolling elements, custom content loading animation, and modern hover effects.

Dieter - An Authentic Theme for Artists, Designers, and Creative Agencies

http://dieter.edge-themes.com/landing
I’ve teamed up with product designer to carefully build on the existing UI characteristics by introducing modern animation. My work here includes UI hover effects and behavior with the focus being the landing page where I've developed a custom hero layout used as loading sequence - editable text and image content with scroll-based interactivity.

Sahel - An Elegant Multi-concept Theme

http://sahel.elated-themes.com/landing
I've developed page loading sequences, UI hovers, and interactivity with scroll-based loading effects etc. The most eye-catching features would be custom blur in-out hover for portfolio lists, horizontal scrolling portfolio list, dynamic background colors. Honorable mention on Awwwards.

Featured
- Horizontal Scrolling List: http://sahel.elated-themes.com/nyiri/
- Blur/Focus Hover: http://sahel.elated-themes.com/kalahari/
- Dynamic Background Color: http://sahel.elated-themes.com/danakil/

Makoto - A Creative Multipurpose WordPress Theme

http://makoto.elated-themes.com/landing
The goal of this project was to make a strong first impression. I’ve developed highly interactive layouts for multiple pages including a split screen slider. The landing page showcases synced content starting with an editable textual loading spinner. The most interesting bits of code are the marquees – both text and image marquee I’ve custom developed to preserve 60fps rendering performance.

Featured:
- Split Screen Slider: http://makoto.elated-themes.com/split-screen-slider/
- Text Marquee http://makoto.elated-themes.com/text-marquee/

Orkan - A Portfolio Made for Designers, Artists, and Agencies

http://orkan.edge-themes.com/landing
Aiming to keep the distinct design palette from the start, I’ve stayed away from color-based interactivity and went for motion. The highlights of this project are dynamic intro section – loading animation, fullscreen showcase, and Passepartout slider. All of them are fullscreen, scroll-based layouts.

Featured:
- Passepartout slider - http://orkan.edge-themes.com/passepartout-slider/
- Fullscreen showcase slider - http://orkan.edge-themes.com/full-screen-showcase/

Aoki - A Bold Multipurpose Creative Theme

http://aoki.select-themes.com/landing
The aesthetics of this project are strong, vivid, and urban. To preserve these traits, I’ve custom developed a hero progress loader for a landing page, interactive background-text elements, scroll-triggered intro section and a variety of well-balanced modern hover effects and transitions.

Featured:
- Interactive homepage example: http://aoki.select-themes.com/interactive-links/

Tonda - A Modern, Elegant WooCommerce Theme

http://tonda.select-themes.com/landing
Using a characteristic color palette with mild overtones, the designer introduced a soft and gentle atmosphere that needed a touch of dynamics. I’ve focused on distinct UI behavior with characteristic button animations and subtle hover effects on various elements which combined with longer crossfades between pages preserve the comfortable flow. As always, landing page was carefully tailored from start to finish to showcase theme features including a custom video frame shortcode.

Ottar - A Contemporary Portfolio Theme

http://ottar.edge-themes.com/landing
A black and white theme with minimal content and delicate photography inspired me for something special. I’ve developed custom cursor behavior along with complementary hover effects to give this theme more character and fluency using distinct page transitions.

Highlights From My Other Projects

- Intro Panels:
Developed a split-like loading sequence with engaging panels layout featuring dynamic background color and full-screen call-to-action functionality:
http://brynn.elated-themes.com/landing

- Modern shop layouts
Three custom-developed layouts for this shop theme - split tile slider, parallax list, divided list.
http://bazz.select-themes.com/split-tile-slider/
http://bazz.select-themes.com/parallax-shop/
http://bazz.select-themes.com/divided-store/

- SVG animation
Custom SVG animations throughout this project with SnapSVG.
http://blomma.select-themes.com/landing

- Glitchy Intro
A two-screen intro section custom developed for theme presentation.
http://haar.edge-themes.com/landing

- Uncovering Slider
A boutique slider layout with a powerful unveiling loading effect fit for multiple homepages:
http://sarto.edge-themes.com/
http://sarto.edge-themes.com/agency-home/
http://sarto.edge-themes.com/design-studio/

- Horizontal Parallax Slider
A fullscreen bordered carousel which adds a tailored dose of interactivity to this very stripped-down theme:
http://fierce.edge-themes.com/stack

Languages

JavaScript, SCSS, CSS3, HTML5, ECMAScript (ES6), PHP

Libraries/APIs

Parallax, jQuery, React Redux, GSAP, jQuery UI, React, Barba.js, Mustache, JSON API, REST APIs

Paradigms

Responsive Coding, Object-oriented Programming (OOP)

Platforms

Visual Studio Code (VS Code), GreenSock Animation Platform (GSAP), WordPress, Windows

Other

PSD to HTML, Scripted Animation (JavaScript), Scroll Animations, Interactive UI, UI Animation, CSS3 Animation, Web Animation, Web UX, Web UI, Interactive Web Design, Interactive Web Development, Ajax, SVG Animation

Tools

Adobe Photoshop, Subversion (SVN), Adobe Experience Design (XD)

Storage

JSON

Frameworks

Bootstrap

2013 - 2015

Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering - Audio and Video Communications

University of Belgrade - Belgrade, Serbia

2008 - 2013

Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering - Telecommunications and Information Technologies

University of Belgrade - Belgrade, Serbia

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