Valeriu Dodon, WordPress Developer in Toronto, ON, Canada
Valeriu Dodon

WordPress Developer in Toronto, ON, Canada

Member since January 28, 2022
Valeriu has a bachelor's degree in information technologies and over 10 years of experience. In his professional career, he's partnered up with big and small, remote and on-site companies. 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. He's seasoned in responsive and adaptive design and understanding the whole web development process, including design, development, and deployment.
Valeriu is now available for hire

Portfolio

Experience

Location

Toronto, ON, Canada

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Slack, Zoom, Teams, Visual Studio 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.

Employment

  • WordPress Developer

    2023 - 2023
    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.
    Technologies: WordPress, WordPress Themes, WordPress Design, Elementor, JavaScript, CSS, PHP, Performance Improvement, High Code Quality, Quality Improvement, Backups, HostGator, GoDaddy
  • WordPress Developer

    2022 - 2022
    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.
    Technologies: WordPress, PHP, JavaScript, Elementor, HTML, CSS, Content Management, Content Management Systems (CMS), Agriculture, Food, Optimization, Web Hosting, eCommerce, Manufacturing, ACF, Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), Facebook API, Google Optimize, Google Tag Manager API, Social Media APIs, Facebook Ads API, CSS3, REST, User Experience (UX), Video Players, Plugins
  • WordPress Developer

    2022 - 2022
    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.
    Technologies: PHP, WordPress, WordPress Themes, WordPress Design, WordPress Plugins, WordPress API, APIs, Gutenberg Editor, Block API, University, Education, Content Management, Content Management Systems (CMS), Learning Management Systems (LMS), CSS3, REST, User Experience (UX), User Interface (UI)
  • Senior Web Developer

    2020 - 2022
    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.
    Technologies: React, Node.js, Next.js, React Apollo, GraphQL, PHP, Headless Software, WordPress, WordPress API, MySQL, Git, GitHub, Docker, JavaScript, TypeScript, Lodash, Ramda, JSON, XML, NPM, HTML, CSS, Sass, Yoast SEO, SiteImprove, Responsive, Media Queries, PSD to WordPress, Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), Responsive Web Design (RWD), SCSS, ESLint, Teams, Slack, HTML5, Responsive UI, Web Development, Figma, Deployment, Gatsby, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Gutenberg Editor, Content Management, Content Management Systems (CMS), CSS3, REST, User Experience (UX), User Interface (UI), Video Players, Video Platforms, Plugins, GravityView
  • Senior Web Developer

    2019 - 2020
    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.
    Technologies: WordPress, WordPress Themes, WordPress Plugins, WordPress API, PSD to WordPress, PHP, JavaScript, jQuery, Ajax, Node.js, NPM, Gulp, HTML, CSS, Sass, Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), WordPress Design, WooCommerce, Responsive, Responsive Web Design (RWD), WordPress REST API, Sketch to WordPress, HTML to WordPress, Multilingual Websites, Slack, Teams, Divi, Elementor, HTML5, WPML, Iodine.js, Responsive UI, Web Development, Figma, Deployment, Gutenberg Editor, WooCommerce API, Web Hosting, Optimization, Payment APIs, eCommerce, Agriculture, ACF, ACF Pro, CSS3, CSS3 Animation, REST, User Experience (UX), User Interface (UI), Plugins, Divi Builder 3, Email Marketing, Scraping, Web Scraping, Plugin Development, Theme Development, Child Themes, Website Optimization, GravityView, PDF, Web UX Design, Web UI Design, Web Design, Mobile, Cloud Deployment
  • Senior Web Developer | Python Developer

    2018 - 2019
    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 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.
    Technologies: WordPress, Python, Django, PHP, React, WordPress API, WordPress Plugins, WordPress Themes, Webpack, NPM, Node.js, JavaScript, jQuery, CSS, HTML, Sass, Git, GitHub, GitHub API, Twig, Responsive, Docker, Heroku, Jira, Agile, Scrum, PostgreSQL, Programming, SCSS, ESLint, HTML5, WPML, Responsive UI, Web Development, Amazon Web Services (AWS), ACF, Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), ACF Pro, CSS3 Animation, REST, User Experience (UX), User Interface (UI), Video Players, Video Platforms, Gravity Forms, Mobile, Cloud Deployment
  • Full-stack Developer

    2015 - 2018
    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.
    Technologies: WordPress, WordPress API, WordPress Themes, WordPress Plugins, WooCommerce, PHP, Laravel, JavaScript, jQuery, Ajax, React, DOM, JSON, XML, Vue, Angular, Node.js, NPM, SQL, MySQL, Responsive, Bootstrap, HTML, CSS, Less, Sass, Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), WordPress Design, Responsive Web Design (RWD), WordPress REST API, Sketch to WordPress, HTML to WordPress, User Interface (UI), Finance, Multilingual Websites, UI Design, UX Design, WordPress Theme Design, SCSS, ESLint, Slack, Divi, Elementor, Web, HTML5, WPML, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), SEO Audits, Responsive UI, Web Development, Figma, Deployment, Gatsby, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Gutenberg Editor, WooCommerce API, Optimization, Payment APIs, Web Hosting, eCommerce, Manufacturing, Agriculture, ACF, ACF Pro, Learning Management Systems (LMS), CSS3, CSS3 Animation, REST, User Experience (UX), Video Players, Plugins, Divi Builder 3, Email Marketing, Email Markup, Scraping, Web Scraping, Theme Development, Child Themes, Plugin Development, Website Optimization, Zapier, NGINX, Gravity Forms, Listify, Databases, Data, Forms, PDF, Web UX Design, Web UI Design, Web Design, Mobile, Cloud Deployment
  • Project Lead Developer

    2015 - 2018
    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.
    Technologies: WordPress, WordPress Themes, WordPress Plugins, WordPress API, Python, Web Scraping, Responsive, PHP, HTML, CSS, Sass, Bootstrap, XML, JavaScript, jQuery, Ajax, MySQL, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, JSON, Yoast SEO, Git, GitFlow, DeployHQ, Bitbucket, SourceTree, DigitalOcean, cPanel, Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), Responsive Web Design (RWD), UI Design, UX Design, WordPress Theme Design, HTML5, Responsive UI, Web Development, SEO Audits, XML Schema, Plugins, Scraping, Plugin Development, Theme Development, Child Themes, Website Optimization
  • Mobile Software Developer

    2013 - 2015
    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.
    Technologies: WordPress, WordPress Themes, WordPress Plugins, Responsive, APIs, PHP, HTML, CSS, XML, JavaScript, jQuery, Backbone.js, Ajax, MySQL, RSS Feeds, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe After Effects, JSON, Git, Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), WordPress Design, Responsive Web Design (RWD), User Interface (UI), User Experience (UX), WordPress REST API, UI Design, UX Design, WordPress Theme Design, Responsive UI, Web Development, Optimization, Web Hosting, Payment APIs, ASP.NET, Mobile
  • Senior Web Developer

    2011 - 2013
    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.
    Technologies: WordPress, WordPress API, PHP, HTML, CSS, XML, JavaScript, jQuery, Ajax, JSON, MySQL, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, WordPress Design, Multilingual Websites, User Interface (UI), User Experience (UX), UI Design, UX Design, WordPress Theme Design

Experience

  • Premium WordPress Themes and Plugins for ThemeForest
    https://themeforest.net/

    Developed over 20 unique premium WordPress responsive themes and plugins for a digital marketplace called 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/

    At Corus Entertainment Inc. company we created a video management system. Because I was the senior WordPress developer and my experience with Python, I was transferred to the Python developers team.

    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/

    The FLK Taoist website development project was a massive one. I was involved and did about 75% of that project.

    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/

    GoneVOIP had an outdated and not-responsive website. I migrated the database and applied the old website's functionality to the new design in a reasonable time. I did 100% of the work for this project.

    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/

    This is a WordPress multi-site for a travel agency with tours in three different countries. I used the company's API to get all the categories and tours displayed on the website.

    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

    Participated in redesigning and updating the current website with courses/lessons and a file management system. I created a bunch of static and dynamic native blocks for Gutenberg, including icons, buttons, galleries, widgets, and sliders. Also, I 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.

Skills

  • Languages

    HTML, CSS, PHP, SQL, JavaScript, Sass, Less, XML, SCSS, HTML5, CSS3, Python, GraphQL, ECMAScript (ES6), TypeScript
  • Frameworks

    Twig, Bootstrap, Divi, Express.js, Next.js, Django, Angular, Laravel, ASP.NET
  • Libraries/APIs

    WordPress API, WordPress REST API, jQuery, Block API, WooCommerce API, Google Tag Manager API, 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, ACF Pro, Google Optimize, Divi Builder 3, NGINX, GravityView, React Apollo, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Webpack, NPM, Jira, Adobe After Effects, Gulp, Figma, Zapier, Docker Swarm
  • Paradigms

    Object-oriented Programming (OOP), Responsive, Responsive Web Design (RWD), Search Engine Optimization (SEO), REST, Database Design, Agile, Scrum, UI Design, UX Design, Web UX Design, Web UI Design
  • Platforms

    Visual Studio Code, MacOS, WordPress, DigitalOcean, cPanel, WooCommerce, WordPress Theme Design, Web, Video Platforms, Mobile, Docker, Heroku, DeployHQ, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Kubernetes
  • Storage

    MySQL, Databases, JSON, Media Queries, XML Schema, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Cloud Deployment
  • Other

    Teams, WordPress Themes, WordPress Plugins, GitFlow, PSD to WordPress, Sketch to WordPress, HTML to WordPress, WordPress Multisite, APIs, Ajax, RSS Feeds, Yoast SEO, DOM, Headless Software, WordPress Multi-user, WordPress Optimization, WordPress Design, 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, ACF, 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, AODA Compliance, Web Scraping, SiteImprove, Monetization, SEO Tools, Finance, Web Marketing, Deployment, Agriculture, Food, Manufacturing, Learning Management Systems (LMS), Email Marketing, Email Markup, Listify, CommonJS, Gatsby
  • Industry Expertise

    Web Design

Certifications

  • Complete WordPress Developer Course | Plugins and Themes
    JANUARY 2022 - PRESENT
    Udemy
  • Docker Mastery with Kubernetes and Swarm
    JANUARY 2022 - PRESENT
    Udemy
  • ES6 for Everyone | Master Package
    JANUARY 2021 - PRESENT
    Bostype Inc.
  • Advanced React and GraphQL
    DECEMBER 2020 - PRESENT
    Bostype Inc.
  • Database Design
    DECEMBER 2019 - PRESENT
    DataCamp
  • Object Oriented Programming in Python
    APRIL 2019 - PRESENT
    DataCamp
  • Learn Node | Master Package
    MAY 2017 - PRESENT
    Bostype Inc.

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