Олена

Full-stack WordPress/Woocommerce developer (remote)
Olena Polonska
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Bulgaria, Varna

SUMMARY
Experienced full-stack WordPress/WooCommerce developer with over 5 years of experience,
specializing in WooCommerce and complex web solutions. Seeking a role where I can
leverage my expertise to build innovative and impactful web projects.

SKILLS

WordPress theme/child theme/plugin WooCommerce development
development (expert) (expert)

PHP, including OOP ACF (experienced)
(experienced)

HTML5/CSS3 (Flexbox/Grid), SASS/SCSS
responsive design, RTL (expert) (skillful)

JavaScript (AJAX, jQuery) REST API
(experienced) (skilful)

Elementor/WPBakery (skilful) MySQL (skilful)

Photoshop/Figma (basic) Git (basic)
LANGUAGES

English (upper intermediate) Ukrainian (native)

Russian (native) Bulgarian (basic)

CODE EXAMPLE
Simple add-on to GTranslate plugin (used on frida-art.eu): github.com/OlenaPolonska/gtaddon

CERTIFICATIONS AND LICENSES
 WordPress: Passed LinkedIn Skill Assessment
 HTML: Passed LinkedIn Skill Assessment
 CSS: Passed LinkedIn Skill Assessment

EXPERIENCE

WordPress/WooCommerce developer | Aug 2021 to current
Liel Albums – Holon, Israel (remote)

A website (liel.co.il) with online shop for the professional family and wedding photo album
printing company.
Achievements
 Developed a custom WordPress child theme with tailored checkout and thank-you pages
 Developed add-ons for WooCommerce plugins, including an enhancement for Woocommerce Extra
Product Options to manage complex products with role-based pricing. Result: Reduced product price
update time from 6-7 days to 30-60 minutes.
 Created a plugin for data exchange (via API) with a third-party photo album editor, including design
saving in user accounts (JavaScript/jQuery/AJAX). Result: 30% increase in client acquisition.
 Refactored and optimized a custom plugin for generating PDF documents and labels for album
production, incorporating paper consumption calculations and reporting. Implemented one-click
order status updates from PDF documents.
 Integrated website with CRM via API.
 Utilized Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) to customize product displays
 Built website pages with Elementor
Technologies
 WordPress: Theme Development, Plugin Development, Child Theme Development, WooCommerce
Add-ons Development, ACF, Elementor, API Integration
 Back-end development: PHP (including OOP)
 Front-end development: HTML5, CSS3 (Flexbox), JavaScript (AJAX, jQuery), responsive design,
Figma (basics), Photoshop (basics), RTL
 Teamwork: Git, Jira

WordPress developer | Jul 2023 to Jan 2024
Association of Women Artists in Bulgaria – Varna, Bulgaria

A website (frida-art.eu) for Bulgarian female artists, empowering them to showcase their
work.
Achievements
 Created a user-friendly WordPress website
 Utilized WP User Frontend and a custom add-on to provide personalized accounts with easy-to-use
upload and delete features.
 Integrated multilingual support (Bulgarian and English) using GTranslate and custom translation
solutions.
 Built website pages with Elementor
Technologies
 WordPress: Child Theme Development, Elementor, Custom Post Types
 Front-end development: HTML5, CSS3 (Grid/Flexbox), JavaScript (jQuery), responsive design

WordPress developer | Apr 2023 to Jan 2024
Multi Masters – Sofia, Bulgaria (remote)

A website (www.multi-masters.eu) for the custom furniture manufacturing company.
Achievements
 Transitioned the website from Google Sites to Wordpress
 Built website pages with Elementor
 Set up the SEO, in collaboration with marketers. Implemented Google Tag Manager
Technologies
 WordPress: Theme Development, Elementor
 Back-end development: PHP
 Front-end development: HTML5, CSS3 (Grid/Flex), responsive design
WordPress developer | May 2016 to Aug 2021
Sara Beyla Lipes, archivist-genealogist – Funchal, Portugal (remote)

A website (lipesdatabase.com) for accelerated search in the database of historical archival documents.
Achievements
 Developed a website with an SQL database (100,000+ records) of archived documents.
 Developed a PHP plugin for searching the SQL database by multiple criteria.
Technologies
 WordPress: Plugin Development, Child Theme Development
 Back-end development: PHP
 Front-end development: HTML, CSS, JavaScript (AJAX, jQuery), responsive design
 Databases: MySQL

WordPress developer | Apr 2021 to Aug 2021
IVT Company – Kyiv, Ukraine (remote)

A website (iwt.com.ua) for the company that imports and products water supply pumping
stations.
Achievements
 Transitioned the custom website to WordPress
Technologies
 WordPress: Theme Development
 Back-end development: PHP
 Front-end development: HTML, CSS, JavaScript (jQuery), responsive design

WordPress/WooCommerce developer | Jan 2019 to Aug 2021
BeRocket – Kyiv, Ukraine (remote)

The company for developing and support WooCommerce plugins.
Achievements
 Maintained WooCommerce plugins
Technologies
 WordPress: WooCommerce Plugin Development
 Back-end development: PHP (including OOP)
 Front-end development: HTML, CSS, JavaScript (AJAX, jQuery), responsive design
 Teamwork: Git, Slack