
Senior Software Developer
20+ years of experience in Information Technology including computer programming, networking systems, marketing, and customer support.
Education

B.A. in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2007)
Cisco Networking Academy Graduate
Languages

English
(native)

Russian
3 years
2007-2010: one semester at UW-Madison and 3 years living in Russia

Spanish
4 years
2 years at South Milwaukee High School, 2 years at UW-Madison
Achievements
Moz published post about an SEO tool I developed for their API.
BuddyPress Profile Tabs published December 2012, has 500+ downloads.
Code Canyon published my plugin: Toolbar Remixed Pro in September 2013.
Personal Projects
A custom WordPress plugin I created for RusKey Biz to show jQuery UI tabs using BuddyPress profile groups for the BuddyPress profile pages.

A premium WordPress plugin I made to customize and control the WordPress toolbar.
Toolbar Remixed – Free (free version on wordpress.org)
Work History
Alley
Senior Software Developer
February 2019-Present
- Architecting and building performant enterprise-grade solutions for REST API integrations, Gutenberg blocks, homepage story curation, site migration, and redesign
- Coaching developers by providing feedback, offering advice, and supporting their professional development efforts
- Optimizing developer experience through code abstraction, testing, improving CI pipelines, and refactoring legacy code
- Led effort to encourage a more collaborative development environment through office hours and scheduled swarms including writing an article about it
- Notable partners: NewsCorp (New York Post, Page Six, Decider)
XWP
Senior WordPress Engineer
January 2016-January 2019
- Architecting solutions for clients with enterprise scale WordPress websites.
- Developing extensible WordPress themes and plugins for Gutenberg, dynamic AMP, content personalization, WordPress VIP, API integrations, code performance enhancements, and advertising systems.
- Contributing to open source projects including the official AMP for WordPress plugin and Stream.
- Notable partners: Google, Penske Media, Chive Media Group, BigCommerce, Heavy Inc
Theme Fusion
Web development
May 2015-September 2015
- Fusion Gallery (image and video gallery plugin for WordPress)
- Developed several different layout types including masonry (Pinterest) style layout
- Made plugin extendable by adding WordPress filters and actions so add-ons could be developed
- Created videos add-on to allow self-hosted, Youtube, and Vimeo videos in a gallery
- Created layouts add-on for adding extra layouts
- Converted plugin CSS to LESS and re-organized stylesheet structure
- Added build automation using Gulp for minimizing files, auto-prefixing CSS, etc
- Re-factored large class files from previous developer using class extensions
- Implemented PhotoSwipe popup gallery integrating all its options and custom slideshow functionality
Abeo
Web development
January 2014-January 2016
- Surveys WordPress Plugins – Frontend and Database plugins
- Custom surveys plugin with JavaScript (jQuery + jQuery UI) frontend and PHP / MySQL backend
- Custom database tables to hold survey questions and results
- Custom algorithm to determine survey results including archetype calculation
- Custom algorithm to determine a centroid for a multiple user spider graph
- PDF reporting of survey results with Google Charts created into images by using PhantomJS
- WP Image Editor usage to crop images for usage in PDF
- Pseudo cron events for creation of PDFs in background
- Cron job for automatic cleanup of old PDFs
- Modifications to the WordPress LMS Plugin by LearnDash
- Including additional WordPress and BuddyPress fields in Course and Quiz exports
- Fixing incorrect quiz titles issue
- Force export of all users
- Force export of all instances of quizzes taken (if they take quiz more than once)
- Aloha Users Sync – Custom WordPress plugin
- Monitoring folder for changes via WordPress Cron and WordPress option with MD5 of file list
- Import and Update Users from a CSV file into WordPress
- Updating log file on server with changes, updating specific email addresses if a problem arises
- Import info from the CSV file into BuddyPress xprofile fields and BuddyPress groups
- Creating Windows command line script to schedule a task, convert DBF file to CSV file, and FTP the file to a server
EventsWork
Web development
November 2013-July 2014
- Customized search functionality for Jobroller theme
- Addtional fields for job submissions in the Jobroller theme
- Coupon functionality for the Jobroller theme
- Autocomplete cities selection for job listing and search in Jobroller theme
- Fix applied to WordPress importer plugin for duplicate categories in custom post types
- Server and domain migration
- Responsive theme updates
- CSS style enhancements and fixes
Proactive Accountant
Web development
September 2013-December 2013
- DirectoryPress responsive theme migration
- DirectoryPress theme customizations
Creative Round
Web development
February 2013-September 2013
- Customizing WordPress Petitions Plugin and Theme
- BuddyPress custom emails and notifications plugin
- Parallax Signup Page
- Social Widget Plugin
- Subscribe to column plugin
- Gravity Forms – WYSIJA integration plugin
- Disqus Multisite plugin
- BuddyPress to WordPress profile transfer plugin
Worlds Factory
Web development
January 2013-April 2013
- Creating Levels / Rankings with progress bar for Achievements for WordPress plugin
- Customized achievements for Achievements for WordPress plugin
- BBPress report reply functionality
- BuddyPress custom notifications
- BuddyPress profile customizations
Dancing Bear Tours
Web development and SEO
2011-2017 St.Petersburg, Russia
- Custom WordPress theme
- Online booking form plugin
- WordPress message board plugin
- SEO and customer support on-going
Hotel Vera
Web development and Digital marketing
10/2010-Present St.Petersburg, Russia
- Developed responsive, mobile ready, custom WordPress theme
- Utilized WordPress custom post types for hotel rooms and prices pages
- Designed new SEO friendly website
- Increased organic search traffic by over 30%
TJ Travel
WordPress development and SEO
2010-2016 St.Petersburg, Russia
- Setup on dedicated server
- Created custom contact form plugin
- Custom WordPress plugin for the message board
- SEO and customer support on-going