
Valeriu Dodon
Verified Expert in Engineering
WordPress Developer
With over 10 years of experience, Valeriu is a web developer with expertise in the back and front end and has a strong understanding of industry trends and content management systems. In his professional career, he's partnered with big, small, remote, and on-site companies. Valeriu has a bachelor's degree in information technologies and is seasoned in responsive and adaptive design, as well as understanding the whole web development process—including design, development, and deployment.
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Experience
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Preferred Environment
Slack, Zoom, Teams, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), MacOS
The most amazing...
...thing I've developed is a video management system with an API used by more than 20 WordPress company websites. It supports and has millions of visitors daily.
Work Experience
WordPress Developer
World Quantum Day
- Redesigned and revamped the quantum computing community website using Figma, increasing overall user experience and site professionalism.
- Developed a custom WordPress plugin for an interactive events map, enabling users to easily submit, view, and filter events. This led to increased event submissions and enhanced user interaction with the platform.
- Streamlined the integration of two existing websites, consolidating their content and functionality into a unified platform, improving site navigation, and reducing maintenance efforts.
WordPress Developer
Lovewick, Inc.
- Improved website loading speed by optimizing image sizes and implementing caching techniques.
- Resolved security issues and vulnerabilities, ensuring the website was protected against potential threats.
- Migrated the website to a new server or platform successfully, ensuring no data or functionality loss.
- Collaborated with other team members or stakeholders to launch a new website or project successfully.
WordPress Developer
Agoro Carbon Alliance - Main
- Developed a website that integrates multiple APIs under a single application using my custom-made web services. Updated the website design using modern standards and tools.
- Built and maintained multiple custom plugins. Maintained and improved the overall performance of WordPress's database and front end.
- Created and implemented a React app displayed on the WordPress website. Migrated data from an old Drupal website to a WordPress database.
WordPress Developer
Fundi International
- Created a bunch of static and dynamic native blocks for Gutenberg, including icons, buttons, galleries, widgets, and sliders.
- Developed a search and filtering system that used custom fields, post meta, taxonomies, tags, categories, authors, post types, post dates, and more using WordPress Actions/Filters, jQuery, JavaScript, and Ajax.
- Redesigned and updated the current website with courses/lessons and a file management system.
Senior Web Developer
Corus
- Created a headless and decoupled WordPress website. Built full-stack applications with React, Next.js, and Apollo GraphQL.
- Developed a page builder using the Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) plugin and the flexible content feature. With flexible content, I used custom-created components and displayed them on front-end pages.
- Participated in regular code reviews and helped formulate and ensure adherence to the industry with best practices and guidelines.
Senior Web Developer
Larche Communications
- Led the WordPress development. Built and maintained custom themes, plugins, and new feature development. Extended, managed, debugged, and implemented improvements to the existing code.
- Set up WordPress options, plugin installation, and configuration. Tested to ensure cross-browser compatibility and built websites using SEO best practices.
- Debugged the code written by other developers. Provided effort and time estimates for assigned work. Executed project deliverables within the effort and elapsed time estimates.
- Participated in regular code reviews and helped formulate and ensure adherence to industry and best practices and guidelines. Regularly collaborated with members of different disciplines across teams. Participated in scrum agile practices.
Senior Web Developer | Python Developer
Corus
- Managed WordPress themes and developed plugins and updates. Fixed bugs and optimized the current web properties.
- Participated in regular code reviews and helped formulate and ensure adherence to industry best practices and guidelines. Regularly collaborated with members of different disciplines across teams. Participated in Scrum and Agile practices.
- Created a video management system with an API used by all the company's WordPress websites and mobile native apps. Wrote and verified the code that adhered to acceptance criteria and coding standards.
Full-stack Developer
RC Design
- Led WordPress development by building and maintaining custom themes and plugins and developing new features. Extended, managed, debugged, and implemented improvements to existing code.
- Set up WordPress options, plugin installation, and configuration. Tested to ensure cross-browser compatibility and built websites using SEO best practices.
- Debugged the code written by other developers and provided effort and time estimates for assigned work using Scrum and Agile practices.
- Participated in regular code reviews and helped formulate and ensure adherence to the industry with best practices and guidelines.
Project Lead Developer
Gonevoip
- Developed, updated, and maintained the company's website by creating a WordPress theme and plugins and using SEO best practices. Added the back- and front-end features and options.
- Created a custom admin and user dashboard where admin and partners can add, update, and delete providers, blog articles, quotes, and questions.
- Managed an additional part of the back end where the reports generation has eight different graphs, displaying the providers, their reviews, and replies by monthly and yearly categories. The reports can be exported into a CSV format.
- Created a JavaScript-embed widget with parameters. Every provider or an allowed website can include it on their website and display the content and reviews with replies from the main website.
- Added other options on the front end, including dating reviews, feeling, top positive, top critical, reporting abuse of a review, and the helpful or not state for all reviews. These features were mainly made with jQuery.
Mobile Software Developer
Tenet Computer Group Inc.
- Managed website projects, including front-end and back-end development. Created custom plugins that got data from APIs and displayed it in the website's page templates.
- Developed WordPress responsive themes, custom post types, taxonomies, dashboard customization, testing, and troubleshooting.
- Created email templates used in Mailchimp email marketing. Created well-documented and clean custom code.
Senior Web Developer
Facilitas Healthcare
- Developed custom WordPress page templates and added new features and plugins support. Designed and implemented all phases of the internet's portal site, including requirements gathering, design, development, testing, and deployment.
- Maintained the WordPress multi-site, 19 websites in total, and user's roles and permissions.
- Provided maintenance and development, including bug fixes and applying patches for the company's website.
Experience
Premium WordPress Themes and Plugins for ThemeForest
https://themeforest.net/The WP themes and plugins were built with a custom admin panel and theme options with full customization.
Video Management System
https://stacktv.ca/I collaborated to create an API that uses ElasticSearch, I helped the WordPress teams to implement that API into the company's WordPress websites, and I contributed to developing the admin dashboard in Python.
We developed the back end and the user dashboard in AngularJS.
Finally, we created a video management system, data storage, and an API to use. It was integrated into all the company's websites. It was a great and complicated project that later evolved into a SAAS.
WordPress websites used the system, and it exponentially increased the pages' loading time. It added content and video management by the company's users.
FLK Taoist Website
https://www.taoist.org/My involvement was from the first phase, where I started with a wireframe and some time estimation.
Initially, there were over 20 websites from more than 20 countries, each with their website and info. The scope was to create a new website with all events, information, and translations into its language.
We decided to use a content management system, and we decided to use WordPress multi-site. All the content is managed through a WordPress CMS to allow clients easy access to updating and adding new content and pages.
The design is responsive. We used Twitter Bootstrap and custom media queries, and CSS implementation for each responsive state.
For search, pagination, and filters, I used Ajax and REST API to avoid page refresh every single time.
Another project phase included the donation form connecting to the client-server API and payment gateway. As an additional part related to the donation form, I built a PDF generator that creates a PDF file as an invoice with all of the company's users and payments details and sends it to the user via email.
GoneVOIP
https://www.gonevoip.ca/I created a custom admin and user dashboard where admin and partners users can add, update, and delete providers, blog articles, quotes, questions.
Another part of the back end was the reports generation. Reports included eight different graphs that displayed the providers and their reviews and replies by categories monthly and yearly. The reports can be exported into CSV format.
Other options added on the front end are reviews rating, feeling, top positive, top critical, and report abuse review. These features were mostly made using jQuery.
Another great feature applied to this website is a JavaScript embeddable widget that I created. It has parameters, and every provider or allowed website can include it on its own website as an embedded JavaScript script to display the content and reviews with replies from the main GoneVoIP website.
RIT Vacations
https://ritvacations.com/During that time, the company's API began too slow; the pages took 10-12 seconds to load, and this was inadmissible for users. I got this task to resolve, and I decided to download all the API's data to the website server in JSON formats.
I added a WordPress cron, and the API has been accessed in the background regularly, a couple of times per day. I also added a custom WordPress option with a button to download the new data whenever new updates about important tours have to be displayed on the website immediately.
Finally, the website's pages are currently loading in 2-3 seconds. It was a great accomplishment.
University Website Redesign
Quantum Computing Community Website Revamp
https://worldquantumday.org/Skills
Languages
HTML, CSS, PHP, SQL, JavaScript, Sass, Less, XML, SCSS, HTML5, CSS3, Python, GraphQL, ECMAScript (ES6), TypeScript, Timber
Frameworks
Twig, Bootstrap, Divi, Express.js, Next.js, Django, Tailwind CSS, Angular, Laravel, ASP.NET
Libraries/APIs
WordPress API, WordPress REST API, jQuery, Block API, WooCommerce API, Google Tag Manager API, REST APIs, Google API, Google Location API, Stripe, Node.js, React, GitHub API, Lodash, Ramda, Facebook API, Social Media APIs, Facebook Ads API, Backbone.js, Vue, BuddyPress
Tools
Slack, Zoom, Git, GitHub, Bitbucket, SourceTree, Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), Cron, Gutenberg Editor, WPML, Google Analytics, Figma, ACF PRO, Google Optimize, Divi Builder 3, NGINX, GravityView, Screaming Frog, Composer, LearnDash, Mailchimp, React Apollo, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Webpack, NPM, Jira, Adobe After Effects, Gulp, Zapier, Stripe Checkout, Adobe Experience Design (XD), Docker Swarm
Paradigms
Object-oriented Programming (OOP), Responsive, Responsive Web Design (RWD), Search Engine Optimization (SEO), REST, Mobile Design, On-page SEO, Automation, Database Design, Agile, Scrum, UI Design, UX Design, Web UX Design, Web UI Design
Platforms
Visual Studio Code (VS Code), MacOS, WordPress, DigitalOcean, cPanel, WooCommerce, WordPress Theme Design, Web, Video Platforms, Mobile, Docker, Heroku, DeployHQ, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Webflow, Kubernetes
Storage
MySQL, Databases, JSON, Media Queries, XML Schema, Database Migration, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Cloud Deployment
Industry Expertise
Web Design, Security
Other
Teams, WordPress Themes, WordPress Plugins, GitFlow, PSD to WordPress, Sketch to WordPress, HTML to WordPress, WordPress Multisite, APIs, Ajax, RSS Feeds, Web Scraping, Yoast SEO, DOM, Headless Software, WordPress Multi-user, WordPress Optimization, WordPress Design, SEO Tools, Programming, Multilingual Websites, ESLint, Elementor, Google Tag Manager, SEO Audits, Iodine.js, Responsive UI, Web Development, University, Education, Content Management, Content Management Systems (CMS), Optimization, Web Hosting, Payment APIs, eCommerce, CSS3 Animation, User Experience (UX), Video Players, User Interface (UI), Plugins, Scraping, Theme Development, Child Themes, Plugin Development, Website Optimization, PDF, Gravity Forms, Data, Forms, Performance Improvement, High Code Quality, Quality Improvement, Backups, HostGator, GoDaddy, Performance, Migration, Data Migration, Events, Endpoint Security, Maps, Full-stack, Theme Customization, Page Speed Optimization, Google Search Console, Analytics, Custom Post Types, Animation, Robust Web Development, Custom Themes, Web Analytics, Contact Form 7, WooCommerce Subscriptions 2, API Integration, FTP, Front-end, Back-end, ChatGPT, Data Scraping, Integration, Mobile First, ThemeForest, Pixel Perfect, Responsiveness, HTML5 Animations, OpenAI, AODA Compliance, Monetization, Finance, Web Marketing, Deployment, Agriculture, Food, Manufacturing, Learning Management Systems (LMS), Email Marketing, Email Markup, Listify, Hospitality, GeneratePress, Drag & Drop, Design, Sage WordPress Theme, Subscriptions, Membership Sites, Technical Leadership, GPT, PayPal, WordPress eCommerce, Leadership, Communication, Accessibility, SaaS, Video Editing, CommonJS, Gatsby, Performance Optimization, HubSpot, BrainTree
Certifications
Complete WordPress Developer Course | Plugins and Themes
Udemy
Docker Mastery with Kubernetes and Swarm
Udemy
ES6 for Everyone | Master Package
Bostype Inc.
Advanced React and GraphQL
Bostype Inc.
Database Design
DataCamp
Object Oriented Programming in Python
DataCamp
Learn Node | Master Package
Bostype Inc.