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Ryan F.

Los Angeles, California

$80/hr
4.4
263 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
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
Jay K.

San Dimas, California

$85/hr
4.9
110 jobs

Looking for a high-performing website to drive revenue and enhance your online presence? I specialize in delivering tailored web solutions that not only serve your clients effectively but also elevate your brand’s visibility. With over 7 years of hands-on experience, I've empowered businesses of all sizes to achieve their online goals by building top-notch websites that attract and convert organic traffic. My mission is to help you maximize your digital impact with clean, efficient, and scalable web solutions. Key Skills: Frontend: HTML5, CSS3, React, Vue.js, TypeScript, jQuery, AJAX Backend: Node.js, Python, PHP, Express.js Databases: MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL Cloud & DevOps: AWS CMS: WordPress, Shopify Plus, Woocommerce, Squarespace, Webflow CRM: Hubspot, Salesforce Why Work With Me? Proven track record of delivering high-quality projects on time Expertise in optimizing websites for speed, SEO, and user experience Strong communication skills to ensure smooth project execution I am passionate about helping your business succeed online. Let’s collaborate to build a website that not only meets but exceeds your expectations. Looking forward to working with you!

  • PHP
  • CSS 3
  • HTML5
  • React
  • SCSS
  • jQuery
  • WordPress
  • Bootstrap
  • Python
  • Shopify
  • Theme Customization
  • WooCommerce
  • Ecommerce Website Development
  • Website Customization
  • Plugin Customization
Nick B.

Roseville, California

$65/hr
4.9
286 jobs

Senior Full Stack WordPress Developer with 16+ 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
Adam H.

Los Angeles, California

$68/hr
5.0
23 jobs

Full-Stack Developer | AI Automation Architect | Custom Integrations Hi, I’m Adam Haley — a senior full-stack developer with 20+ years of experience building reliable software systems for companies like Disney, Sony, and Apple, now focused on advanced AI automation and orchestration. I design production-grade workflows backed by real infrastructure. What I deliver: • AI-powered automation workflows (n8n, Python/Langchain, Supabase, OpenAI, AWS Bedrock) • Multi-tenant chatbot + RAG frameworks (secure, scalable knowledge bots) • Custom Infra setup - Host your own private AI Garden on a VPS (ie: Digital Ocean or AWS) • Customized Automation dashboards (see detailed stats in realtime) • System audits, Agent evaluations • Ongoing support & optimization via flexible retainers Why Work With Me: I work to meet my clients where they are, to understand and build for YOUR needs, not pre-defined agendas or templates. My engineering background gives every project production-grade reliability. My Agent builds take into account the tradeoffs between classical deterministic architectures, and the modern flexibility of LLMs. My hybrid approach leverages each for their strengths in a way that is custom tailored to YOUR situation and the domain space at hand. 🤝 Let’s build something smart together.

  • Laravel
  • JavaScript
  • React
  • Python
  • n8n
  • Node.js
  • Prompt Engineering
  • LangChain
  • Chatbot
  • Supabase
  • Next.js
  • Make.com
  • Web Scraping
  • Claude
  • AI Agent Development
Corey R.

Temecula, California

$85/hr
5.0
54 jobs

Leading the web development and providing insights/ideas to drive software design success is the hallmark of my 15- year career. SKILLS • Modern JS Front-end Frameworks (React/Angular/Vue) + Typescript • Single-page-applications (SPAs) development using React, Redux, Context, React Hooks, and Typescript • Next.js proficient experience (SSR/SSG/Data fetching/API design/Routing architecture) • Integration of UI frameworks(Tailwind CSS/Chakra UI/Ant Design/Bootstrap/Material UI) + styled-components • RESTful API design, GraphQL/Apollo, and Node.js/Express/NestJs • AWS serverless structure with Lambdas, API Gateway, SNS/SQS, EC2/S3, Secret Manager, RDS/DynamoDB, Amplify, Cognito, ... • App hosting, CI/CD experience, and TDD(Unit testing/e2e testing) • Application development methods (Agile, Kanban, Waterfall), Project management tools (Jira, Atlassian, Asana, Notion), and Version control management (Git, Bitbucket, SVN) I am passionate about fostering cross-collaboration to support process improvement initiatives and best practices. I am excited to work with teams committed to challenging the status quo by identifying and evangelizing opportunities to improve engineering productivity and outcomes. In addition to my professional achievements, I possess a Bachelor of Science in Computer Programming from Northern Illinois University.

  • PHP
  • JavaScript
  • CSS
  • TypeScript
  • SCSS
  • MySQL
  • Node.js
  • React
  • HTML5
  • jQuery
  • ExpressJS
  • Git
  • Vue.js
  • Angular
  • Next.js

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