Vlad S.
Tampa, United States
100%
Job Success
Top Rated
Senior Full Stack Developer / Lead | eCom | WordPress | AI | AWS & IaC
$50.00/hr
Whether you need a new website, an upgrade, or support with ongoing projects, I'm here to provide expert assistance and help you succeed. By choosing to work with me, you can expect personalized support and innovative solutions that will guide you to impactful and effective results.
Some achievements of mine:
💪 Managed and maintained a website with 3,000+ concurrent online users, a portfolio of 25+ websites for one client, and a website with 5M records of data.
💸 Over $300K in total earnings on Upwork, 60 completed jobs, and 7k+ hours logged, 100% Job Success Score
👨💻 Obtained the positions of Director of Technology, Head of Web Development, and Lead Developer in US-based and European companies.
🙈 18 years of experience in IT, Web development and management.
📚 Master's degree in Computer science.
💸 $1M+ development services delivered.
🎤 WordPress Core Contributor, WordCamp Organizer, and WordCamp speaker.
Services provided:
- Custom-built secure E-commerce platforms, Custom websites, Corporate websites, and Landing Pages designed to meet your business needs.
- Advanced DevOps services, including AWS, DigitalOcean, k8s (Kubernetes), Doker, and Terraform for efficient site management.
- Page-speed optimization and caching strategies to improve website speed and user experience.
- Regular updates and maintenance of WordPress core, plugins and themes for top-notch site performance.
- Consistent performance and reliability ongoing monitoring and automated testing practices.
- Expert malware removal, security audits and configurations to protect your WordPress site.
- Seamless hosting, domain, email setup and migration for a smooth online experience.
- In-depth code reviews and audits to ensure quality and prevent potential issues.
❝ I have worked with Vlad over many years and I highly recommend him for any serious development work. Vlad is a very senior level developer and can lead others. He is an expert in WordPress and web development. He is very responsive, works fast and doesn't need to be micromanaged. ❞ - Nazar Z., Chicago, IL, USA
Since 2006 I have successfully built and launched over 250 projects across diverse industries, including personal websites, corporate sites, intranet systems, CRM and CMS platforms for e-commerce, startup, educational and non-profit clients from all over the world. This background helped me to develop a plethora of skills to approach any type of situation that can occur in product and people management. My technical education and interest in modern technologies give me a unique angle in the discussions to achieve impactful and effective solutions.
Technologies (abridged):
- WooCommerce: Paypal, Stripe, WooCommerce Tax, Klaviyo, ShipStation, UPS, USPS, FedEx, QB.
- WordPress: Gutenberg, ACF PRO, Elementor, Yoast SEO, Contact Form 7, Gravity Forms, Ninja Forms, Wordfence, and many more.
- DevOps: AWS (EKS, ECR, ECS, CloudFront, R53, S3, etc.), DigitalOcean, CloudFlare, k8s, Doker.
- Monitoring: New Relic, Sentry.
- Automated CI/CD: GitHub Actions, BitBucket Pipelines, AWS CodeBuild, etc.
- Automated Testing: Cypress, SeleniumHQ.
- Git: GitHub, BitBucket, GitLab.
- Hosting Platforms: WPEngine, GoDaddy, Self-hosted.
- APIs: OpenAI, Midjourney, Google, Maps, Spreadsheets, Youtube, Upwork and others.
- UNIX: Ubuntu, RHEL, LAMP, LEMP management, shell/bash/sh/fish.
- I’m fluent in PHP (incl. OOP), CSS (3), HTML (5), Javascript(ES6), SQL, GraphQL.
❝ Vlad is probably one of the best developers we've ever used. He's very professional, reliable, hard-working and knowledgeable. We would have kept him indefinitely had he not have a change in work circumstances. It's rare finding a developer with such technical and personal skills. ❞ - Emmanuel G., London, UK.
Contact me today and let's take your project to the next level.
Work history
Work history
Head Of Web Development
Mar 9, 2023
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Jan 5, 2025
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Magento to WordPress & WooCommerce migration expert needed
Apr 1, 2019
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Dec 30, 2022
"Vlad is a top notch WordPress/WooCommerce developer that took the lead on a complicated Magento migration and pulled it off with flying colors. He's a great manager, very precise with…
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Experienced WordPress / Full Stack Web Developer needed
Sep 15, 2020
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Sep 7, 2022
"I have worked with Vlad over many years and I highly recommend him for any serious development work. Vlad is a very senior level developer and can lead others. He…
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Experienced WordPress, WooCommerce, Laravel, Vue.js team for a long term platform development.
Mar 24, 2020
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May 5, 2022
"Vlad and his crew have been absolutely phenomenal to work with. Trustworthy, reliable, responsible, and just good people to do business with. We absolutely intend to work with them in…
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WordPress Rockstar developer needed
Sep 28, 2017
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Jan 30, 2020
"Vlad is probably one of the best developers we've ever used. He's very professional, reliable, hard working and knowledgeable. We would have kept him indefinitely had he not have a…
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Ambassador, Freelancer Success
May 3, 2019
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Oct 2, 2019
"Vlad has done a fantastic job for us as an Upwork Ambassador developing and growing a local community of Upwork users in Kyiv by hosting local events for freelancers and…
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Experienced WordPress developer wanted ( Brenau )
Mar 30, 2018
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Sep 3, 2019
"Vlad is by far the best WordPress developer I found here. He successfully completed multiple projects for me over the past few years and I'll definitely work with him again."
Freelancer's response
"Thank you! Appreciate your warm feedback!"
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Custom UI WooCommerce Website
Jan 31, 2019
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Jul 22, 2019
"Wow Vlad is an exceptional Web developer. The results he has delivered are outstanding and he really understood the brief and offered advice to make sure the website was built…
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WordPress, WooCommerce development and maintenance
Feb 27, 2019
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May 3, 2019
"Vlad and his team at Happy Hours are still the best team I have worked with! Will definitely work with again on big projects."
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Mobilizer Services
Nov 3, 2018
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May 2, 2019
"Vlad is an exceptional professional to have on your team. He is very reliable and a smart and hard working individual who always aims to deliver the best possible results…
Freelancer's response
"Thank you! It was a great honor and my pleasure to represent Upwork Inc. in my local area. I'll be very happy to continue our cooperation as soon as needed."
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Wordpress Backend Developer
Mar 17, 2025
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Job in progress
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Experienced Full Stack Web Developer with extensive DevOps (AWS, DO, Terraform) experience needed
Mar 7, 2023
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Present
Job in progress
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WordPress Developer Expert with Elementor Pro experience
Jun 20, 2020
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Job in progress
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Skills
Skills
- WordPress
- PSD to HTML
- JavaScript
- CSS 3
- HTML5
- Kubernetes
- WooCommerce
- WordPress e-Commerce
- WordPress Theme
- WordPress Plugin
- WordPress Development
- Web Development
- PSD to WordPress
- PHP
- Terraform