Senior Full-stack WordPress Developer
2021 - PRESENTFreelance- Assisted in defining which components would be used to achieve a series of requirements for the website and how they would be modified to fit the brief.
- Developed a custom online resume creator and manager that allowed candidates to populate its different sections and produce a styled PDF with candidate's information and entered experience as well as automatically attach it to their applications.
- Developed customizations to the job submission as well as the job application flow to match specific requirements.
Technologies: ACF Pro, Elementor, WP Job Manager, BuddyPress, PHP, PHP 7, Nginx, jQuery, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, Git, Web HostingLearnDash Developer
2020 - PRESENTRemote Freelancer- Developed a comprehensive solution for a consultancy firm offering online courses with LearnDash to allow their customers to manage their managers on students through a fully front-end custom interface to manage them and their LearnDash courses.
- Created an entire custom solution for a front-end signup and management of groups of employees that allowed them to enroll users under their management to specific LearnDash courses and track and comment on their progress.
- Completed the implementation of the solution with a series of online tutorials to train managers on the use of WordPress, LearnDash, and the custom solution built for them.
- Completed the design and implementation of a custom coaching accreditations and continuous education credits system running on LearnDash that effectively handles official accreditation and automatic expirations for over 100,000 football coaches.
- Developed customizations and integrations to merge LearnDash with WordPress themes like BuddyBoss, Kleo, Astra, and GeneratePress and adapt LearnDash styling and layouts to clients' needs.
Technologies: jQuery, LearnDash, ACF Pro, Membership Sites, MemberPress, Stripe API, PayPal API, Stripe, PayPal, WordPress Themes, HTML to WordPress, WordPress eCommerce, User Experience (UX), MySQL, Sass, Performance, Optimization, Gamification, GamiPress, Elementor, APIs, BuddyPress, Custom Post Types, Beaver Builder, Learning, Mobile Learning, Adult Learning, Learning Management Systems (LMS), Online Course DesignWooCommerce Developer
2019 - PRESENTRemote Freelancer- Developed automatic recurring payments for a membership website to offer their customers the ability to subscribe using PayPal, credit cards via Stripe, and SEPA debit payments via Stripe in compliance with the latest EU laws.
- Tracked and fixed issues with edge cases and specific banking regulations.
- Oversaw the launch process, onboarding thousands of customers in the first few months.
- Developed simple to complex customizations to multiple WooCommerce extensions and aspects of a WooCommerce store, from front-end features and behaviors to customizing the purchasing experience or producing custom reports and features in the back end.
- Created custom shipping methods with UPS, FedEx, and Stamps.com APIs according to a set of specific client criteria like requesting rates to Stamps based on zip code, volume, and weight of the order and determining the optimal package for it.
- Built custom payment integrations with dozens of different payment processors, from well-known products to local companies with obscure and not well documented APIs.
- Managed from start to end the integration submission and approval process on behalf of multiple different companies, studying and complying with the different requirements, and saw the process through until integrations were successfully approved.
- Built from simple one-product stores to high-traffic, highly customized shops processing hundreds of orders a day, deciding from the server choice and configuration to the final combination of theme, plugins, and custom coding.
- Fixed broken checkouts under pressure for high functioning WooCommerce stores, losing hundreds every minute their checkout is out of order.
- Customized WooCommerce product pages, cart, and checkout to match various designs provided.
Technologies: PHP, Stripe API, Membership Sites, WordPress, JavaScript, jQuery, Stripe, PayPal, Mailchimp API, WordPress Themes, HTML to WordPress, WordPress eCommerce, Salesforce API, MySQL, Sass, Performance, Optimization, ACF Pro, AffiliateWP, API Connectors, APIs, REST APIs, Google Pay, Apple Pay, Plaid, QuickBooks API, Authorize.Net, WooCommerce, WooCommerce API, WooCommerce Subscriptions 2, Stamps, FedEx API, UPS API, Elasticsearch, Mailgun, SendGrid, eCommerce, eCommerce APIs, WP eCommerce, SCSS, CSS, CSS3WordPress Developer
2012 - PRESENTRemote Freelancer- Designed the system architecture of close to 500 different WordPress projects, primarily complex and highly customized online stores, membership portals, and online communities.
- Developed custom add-ons and extensions for popular and not-so-well-known WordPress products.
- Oversaw launch processes, resulting in millions of new visitors within the first month.
- Recreated hundreds of designs (provided as Figma, Sketch, Adobe software, PDF, image files, and other formats) as WordPress websites, matching the design's specific site-wide elements and pages' contents across devices and resolutions.
- Selected and set up the optimal combination of hosting environment, WordPress theme, and plugins and custom coding to achieve simple, medium, and complex front ends.
- Used a wide variety of front-end libraries to create impactful sliders, lightboxes, form inputs, and online calculators.
- Implemented Elasticsearch integrations for WordPress and wrote custom extensions for BuddyPress and BuddyBoss content and other data types like PDF documents, producing high-quality results on large databases with blazing speed.
- Developed Google-like autosuggest search results in real-time on various WordPress content, ranging from posts and users to various custom post types.
- Developed various custom search modules for WordPress, implemented specific designs to display search results on the front end, and built specific, both simple and complex, custom searching logic to adjust to clients' requirements.
Technologies: AffiliateWP, APIs, Elasticsearch, BuddyPress, PHP, WordPress Plugins, Gravity Forms, WordPress, WordPress API, Stripe, PayPal, Mailchimp API, WordPress Themes, HTML to WordPress, WordPress eCommerce, User Experience (UX), Salesforce API, MySQL, Sass, Performance, Avada, GeneratePress, Payment APIs, Shipping APIs, Stamps, Smart Coupons, PSD to WordPress, Quiz Generation, Memberful, ConvertKit, Redis Cache, Cloudways, Kinsta, Pop-ups, Search, GridPane, Oxygen, WP All Import, Residential Real Estate, SMTP, WP Job Manager, Google Maps API, API Connectors, FigmaGravity Forms Developer
2020 - 2020Remote Freelancer- Developed a complete HVAC equipment and maintenance visits management system leveraging WooCommerce subscriptions, Gravity Forms, GravityView, and a custom plugin developed to act as a bridge between them as well as provide additional features.
- Generated an end-to-end experience for customers and service technicians visiting customers' homes and servicing their HVAC equipment. Technicians entered, tracked equipment through a fully front-end maintenance visits management dashboard.
- Provided online tutorial sessions for the team, who would then train the service technicians, and oversaw the implementation of the solution in multiple of their client websites.
- Built a custom GravityForms addon to dynamically create WooCommerce coupons with specific characteristics and usage settings based on the values submitted through the form.
- Developed a custom extension to the official MailChimp addon for GravityForms to allow certain form submissions to tag MailChimp contacts in different pre-defined ways using the MailChimp API.
- Styled GravityForms to match dozens of different designs provided, from simple edits to highly complex layouts with multiple sections and visual effects.
- Created custom GravityForms email notification triggers and merge tags to allow dynamic content from the submissions to be sent in specific ways.
- Generated a series of 12 different PDFs, each with their own layout and styling, that auto-generated from GravityForms submissions as well as auto-populated specific elements with values entered in the form.
Technologies: PHP, Gravity Forms, GravityView, JavaScript, WordPress REST API, WooCommerce, WooCommerce Subscriptions 2, Stripe, PayPal, Mailchimp API, WordPress Themes, HTML to WordPress, WordPress eCommerce, User Experience (UX), MySQL, Sass, OptimizationLead BuddyPress Developer
2018 - 2019Remote Freelancer- Redeveloped in WordPress a 16-year-old online community for PE educators with features including front-end user submission of videos and educational resources, user ratings, advanced search and filtering, forum discussions, and more.
- Designed and oversaw the seamless conversion of the existing user base and content from the last 16 years. With a single email allowing them to reset their new password, users had all their data and uploaded content migrated to the new site.
- Oversaw the launch and post-launch processes, resulting in a 380% increase in new user signups and their highest rates of new logins after 5+ years of inactivity since their original launch in 2001.
- Produced a completely custom front end for each of the multiple BuddyPress pages and components with matching designs provided.
Technologies: BuddyPress, Elasticsearch, Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), HTML5 Video, Web Hosting & Domain Setup, Mailchimp API, WordPress Themes, Sketch to WordPress, HTML to WordPress, MySQL, Sass, Performance, Optimization, APIs, CSS, Single Sign-on (SSO), User Roles, Media Offloading, Google Cloud Storage, Ratings, Social APIs, Shortcodes, Custom Post Types, WP Rocket, Nginx, Spam Filtering, User RegistrationFull-stack WordPress Developer
2017 - 2018Remote Freelancer- Migrated the suite of 15+ websites from PHP 5.6 to PHP 7, including testing and updating the codebase to resolve deprecation errors and executing the corresponding server upgrades.
- Developed a custom application that correctly updated the main site's 100,000+ podcast records from a previous podcast hosting to the new one when a decision to switch providers was made, resulting in a seamless transition for their 5+ million users.
- Implemented a wide range of improvements and feature additions ranging from layout and styling updates to integration with forums, social media sign up and log in, and customized recommended podcasts.
Technologies: WordPress, Podcasting, iTunes Connect, CSS, PHP 7, HTML, HTML5, Web Hosting & Domain Setup, Stripe, PayPal, WordPress to PDF, WordPress Themes, Sketch to WordPress, HTML to WordPress, WordPress eCommerce, WordPress Design, Gulp.js, MySQL, Sass, Node.js, Optimization, ACF Pro, Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), APIs, AffiliateWP, Beaver Builder