Tomas Stark

Complex software development for Engravers Guild Ltd. based in London, UK.

Competencies:
Planned, owned, and developed new features on the main shop page (WordPress and WooCommerce).
Performed regular site speed and site security audit performed in-house using cutting-edge tools.

Developing a new standalone API for generating photo realistic engraving previews on product images (PHP, Imagick).

Automating order process - printing the order sheet, shipping label, and gift card are all automated and out of the printer whenever an order needs to be packed and sent (AWS, AWS Lambda).

Closely following current search trends and signals and making small adjustments to site SEO to boost conversions.

I wrote a new blog for a well-known electric skateboarding brand, Boosted Boards. It was built on WordPress with a custom-coded, easy-to-use solution for handling CTA sections by the marketing team. It was launched in line with its new electric scooter product, Boosted Rev.

WordPress development for an amazing community-driven project, Team Covenant. Since I inherited this project after a previous developer, the day-to-day mostly involved maintaining the site and addressing scaling issues as the site grew in customer base relatively quickly.

In 2021, the client decided to expand its area of operations to the UK. I spent Q1 and Q2 developing a solution for supporting multiple fulfillment locations in WordPress and WooCommerce. This was achieved via a custom plugin that based on stock availability and customer's address determines which fulfillment center should process the order.

The project also utilizes a very popular plugin WooCommerce Subscriptions and a lot of custom functionality was added to work on top of it. To pick one, I developed a plugin to renew subscriptions automatically not only by time but also when certain goods are released. This proved to be especially useful for collector's cards and foils that are only released to fans few times a year.

My primary role in this project for B6 Real Estate Advisors based in New York City, US was to convert Sketch files to a fully functioning WordPress theme. Elementor was installed for ease of editing any content without a need to go into a code editor.

In addition to theme creation, I also developed a custom plugin for B6 to handle API work to pull property listings for their brokers on the team page and a map search on the listings page.

I worked on this Backbone.js app while working at Tribal DDB London in 2015.

My Perfect Volkswagen is an app that helps people to choose a car based on their needs. It accepts user criteria for their vehicle (like color, transmission, engine type, and so on) and shows a list of matched cars as a result. Vehicles are sorted into different categories: "Perfect Match" through "Good Match" all the way to "Poor Match."

The app accepts user custom features like changing the color of the background of a model page to match the car color. It allows the user to view a model page, preview photos, and read some basic information about the model. The user can then continue building the actual car in the Car Configurator, which is initiated with all the options from the app already selected.

PLATFORM_ is a fully integrated investor, developer, operator and asset manager of purpose-built residential communities throughout the United Kingdom.

The client's website was done in the Zend framework before and didn't provide many options for their content management team. Redoing this website in WordPress while keeping the look and feel but adding some new small features improved things a lot. The client can now edit every single element on the website and we also achieved better loading times by reducing the CSS size and utilizing the W3 Total Cache plugin.

Convertelligence is an innovative machine learning and AI company. This project was about improving their website by turning Sketch files provided by the designer to a responsive WordPress theme.

Sachse Construction is a US-based real estate agency.

I’ve completely rewritten their outdated .NET codebase to WordPress. The client decided not to go for a complete redesign, so I’ve implemented responsive features to an old design.

Technologies: WordPress, SCSS, jQuery

A brand new WordPress theme with lots of custom functionality for the high-traffic GetYourExBackPermanently blog.

The theme was created from designs provided by the client and fine-tuned to perfection. It features many layout options that admin can choose from. Every text area seen on the website is editable either through the content editor or managed by widgets.

To make it lightning-fast on mobiles, the theme also has its AMP version for an instant content load.

This is a complex corporate website for a leading real estate agency based in Michigan (US). The site was built entirely in WordPress with a lot of custom plugins to handle a search functionality and generating flyers for properties in both the email and printable version.

The site features a one-of-a-kind search page with a map search and custom pins. Under the hood of this search engine lies complex code that translates all of the user-entered options into a custom SQL query to achieve the best performance and scalability.

The property flyers management features a user-friendly interface for creating, editing, and sending or printing flyers without leaving the WordPress interface. An HTML email with the flyer is automatically sent to a list of potential clients, and a printable PDF is added to the property post meta immediately after creation, allowing users to download it while viewing a property page.

Technologies: WordPress, PHP, MySQL, SCSS, JavaScript, jQuery