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Cassandra G.

San Diego, California

$75/hr
5.0
65 jobs

I'm a web developer with over 20 years of experience building, maintaining, and troubleshooting websites and custom web applications. I specialize in WordPress development, including custom plugins, custom themes, and Advanced Custom Fields (ACF). I also handle third-party integrations and inherited websites with complex or unfamiliar codebases. I'm particularly skilled at diagnosing obscure bugs, resolving display and functionality issues, and finding practical solutions that other developers have struggled to identify. Beyond WordPress, I also build custom PHP and JavaScript applications like calculators, reporting tools, billing interfaces, and API integrations using PHP, MySQL/MariaDB, JavaScript, React, and HTML/CSS. I've worked with clients in eCommerce, education, nonprofit, fulfillment, and other industries. Whether you need a custom feature, an API integration, or help tracking down and solving a difficult technical problem, I provide careful, production-ready work with an emphasis on reliability and maintainability. I'm a particularly good fit for projects where the problem is difficult to explain, the code is unfamiliar, or an off-the-shelf plugin or solution cannot provide the required functionality.

  • PHP
  • Drupal
  • ASP.NET
  • WordPress
  • jQuery
  • CSS
  • React
  • HTML
  • JavaScript
Nick B.

Roseville, California

$50/hr
4.9
286 jobs

Senior Full Stack WordPress Developer with 15+ years of experience building, maintaining, and supporting custom WordPress environments for businesses, healthcare organizations, media platforms, and public-facing websites. My primary focus is long-term WordPress development and production support — including multisite environments, custom themes and plugins, troubleshooting, performance optimization, deployment workflows, and ongoing maintenance of live websites. I work comfortably with both technical teams and non-technical content editors, helping organizations maintain stable, secure, and scalable WordPress platforms. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WORDPRESS DEVELOPMENT ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Custom WordPress development • WordPress multisite • Custom themes and plugins • WooCommerce development • API and third-party integrations • Performance optimization • WordPress security best practices • Plugin compatibility and maintenance • Responsive and cross-browser development ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FULL STACK DEVELOPMENT ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • PHP • JavaScript • jQuery • HTML5 / CSS3 • REST APIs • MySQL troubleshooting and support ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ HOSTING & WORKFLOW ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Git / version control workflows • Staging and production deployments • Pantheon and enterprise WordPress hosting workflows • Website maintenance and troubleshooting • Production issue resolution • Deployment documentation ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ UX & FRONT-END ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • UX/UI implementation • Accessibility-focused front-end practices • WCAG familiarity • Mobile-responsive layouts ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ EXPERIENCE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Over the years, I’ve supported projects involving: • Enterprise WordPress environments • Content-heavy public-facing websites • Long-term maintenance contracts • Performance and security optimization • Custom integrations and automation workflows • Support for content editors and internal teams • Troubleshooting live production environments ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ADDITIONAL SKILLS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ I also have experience with AI-powered workflows and automation systems, including OpenAI integrations, CRM automation, and custom API workflows. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ MY APPROACH ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Build stable and maintainable systems • Focus on performance and reliability • Communicate clearly and document changes • Solve production issues quickly and efficiently • Support long-term growth and scalability I’m comfortable working independently or as part of an internal development team and available for long-term WordPress support and maintenance engagements.

  • PHP
  • WordPress
  • AJAX
  • jQuery
  • Bootstrap
  • Git
  • WordPress Plugin
  • Python
  • Theme Customization
  • Stripe
  • WooCommerce
  • Ecommerce
  • WordPress e-Commerce
  • Elementor
  • Gutenberg Editor
Gor K.

Burbank, California

$65/hr
5.0
27 jobs

I am a Senior Full-Stack Developer with 10+ years of experience building custom websites, ecommerce platforms, CMS solutions, and scalable web applications using PHP, JavaScript, Laravel, CodeIgniter, Node.js, React, Vue, WordPress, Shopify, and Webflow. My background combines strong backend development, clean frontend implementation, ecommerce expertise, and CMS customization. I help clients build reliable, fast, secure, and conversion-focused digital products, whether that means creating a custom web application, improving an existing codebase, developing a Shopify store, building a WordPress plugin, or optimizing a site for speed and SEO. I have strong experience with Laravel and CodeIgniter backends, REST API development, MERN stack applications, WordPress custom themes/plugins, WooCommerce, Shopify Liquid, Shopify 2.0 theme upgrades, private app development, Webflow builds, third-party API integrations, payment gateways, CRM integrations, and database optimization. Clients usually come to me when they need someone who can understand the business goal, clean up technical complexity, and deliver production-ready work without unnecessary overengineering. I focus on clean code, responsive design, performance, security, maintainability, and clear communication throughout the project. Whether you need a full-stack web application, Shopify store, WordPress/WooCommerce site, Webflow website, API integration, migration, bug fixing, or performance optimization, I can help you build it properly and make it ready for long-term growth.

  • PHP
  • HTML5
  • SQL
  • CSS 3
  • JavaScript
  • WordPress
  • jQuery
  • WordPress Plugin
  • Object-Oriented Programming
  • Wix
  • Squarespace
  • CMS Development
  • Webflow
  • Shopify
  • React
  • Next.js
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Node.js
  • PostgreSQL
  • MongoDB
Ryan F.

Los Angeles, California

$80/hr
4.4
262 jobs

Hello, thanks for reviewing my profile. ~10 years in web and application development. Experience with various languages, including but not limited to C++, C#, PHP, Java, JS, and Python. Experience with various hosting platforms and project management tools, including but not limited to AWS, Docker, Git and SSH. Extensive experience with HTTP REST APIs and OAuth / OAuth2 protocols.

  • PHP
  • HTML
  • JavaScript
  • C++
  • C#
  • Python
  • Linux System Administration
  • Amazon Web Services
Sanjay S.

Cupertino, California

$95/hr
4.9
285 jobs

I have experience in building custom software solutions tailor-made to your requirements. My skill-set spans multiple domains like financial, healthcare, eCommerce, advertising, education, life sciences, hotel/hospitality, media and entertainment, retail, real estate, sports and fitness, mobile and wireless, technology, non-profit and more industries. I use structured programming incorporating leading & tested frameworks, best programming practices, coding guidelines and standards. As the technology advances gradually and the programming landscape changes globally, inorder to accommodate the world's growing technological needs, I constantly evaluate the latest trends in the development community and try to constantly improve and upgrade my skills to provide my clients the best possible development solutions.

  • PHP
  • .NET Framework
  • Database
  • Python
  • React
  • Angular
  • AJAX
  • ChatGPT
  • Google Cloud Platform
  • Facebook Development
  • Google Map Maker
  • Linux System Administration
  • Moodle
  • OAuth
  • Open Source
David B.

Nuevo, California

$40/hr
4.8
7 jobs

I am a highly motivated, dedicated professional web application developer, designer and engineer, with over 15 years of real-world experience developing mission-critical projects, for a diverse and wide range of systems. Main areas of focus being Full Stack Web Development, PHP, Python, React, Node MySQL, REST, API. I've built very strong programming skills and a talent for identifying and implementing innovative technology solutions that align with client objectives to deliver solutions that encompass the full spectrum of existing and future project needs. These are some of the tools I wield to help businesses accomplish their technological goals : CORE COMPETENCIES ✪ . Web Development ✪ . Back-End Development ✪ . Full-Stack Development ✪ . Ecommerce Development ✪ . Web Design ✪ . Custom Coding / Programming TECHNICAL SKILLS ✪ . Languages: PHP, Perl, HTML,JavaScript, CSS, SQL, C#, JQuery ✪ . Frameworks: Symfony, CakePHP, CodeIgniter, Bootstrap ✪ . Technologies: SAML, XML, OpenToken, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, JSON, REST, SEO, CMS, SOAP, AJAX, API ✪ . Databases: MySQL, MSSQL, SQL, MS Access

  • PHP
  • WordPress
  • Web Development
  • Responsive Design
  • MVC Framework
  • Ecommerce Website Development
  • RESTful API
  • MySQL Programming
  • Perl
  • jQuery

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