Олександр

Oleksandr Sapian
WordPress & WooCommerce Developer
Zaporizhia, Ukraine (Remote) | [open contact info](look above in the "contact info" section) | [open contact info](look above in the "contact info" section) | Telegram | LinkedIn | GitHub

SUMMARY
WordPress and WooCommerce developer with 4 years of commercial experience: 3 years at the web studio Norml Studio
and 1 year of freelance work. I build and support custom e-commerce: cart and checkout logic, payment gateways,
subscriptions and installment billing, loyalty and referral programs, and data sync between WooCommerce and external
systems such as Stripe, Airtable, Nova Poshta and fulfillment services. I take tasks from database design and custom plugin
code to production release and post-launch fixes, and I am most useful on complex business logic where payments,
inventory and data must stay consistent.

SKILLS
WordPress: custom themes and child themes (Divi), custom plugins, Gutenberg blocks, ACF Pro, Gravity Forms, custom
post types and taxonomies, WordPress REST API, WP-CLI, WP-Cron, hooks and filters
WooCommerce: custom cart and checkout flows, product variations, subscriptions and installment plans, coupons and
referral programs, inventory logic, custom order data, transactional emails, AutomateWoo
Payments and integrations: Stripe (subscriptions, payment intents, webhooks), Monobank, WayForPay, Checkbox (fiscal
receipts), Nova Poshta API, TurboSMS, Airtable API, Zapier
Back end: PHP 8, MySQL (custom tables, data migrations), REST APIs, webhooks, AJAX
Front end: JavaScript (ES6), jQuery, HTML5, CSS3, SCSS, BEM, Gulp, Swiper, responsive and mobile-first layout, Figma to
code
Performance and SEO: Core Web Vitals (CLS), PageSpeed, WP Rocket, WebP and CDN, gzip on Nginx and Apache,
Schema.org markup, Google Search Console, Google Merchant Center
Tools and workflow: Git, GitHub, GitHub Actions, SSH, staging and production workflow, SiteGround, WP Engine, Sentry,
New Relic, ManageWP, ClickUp, Jira-style task tracking

WORK EXPERIENCE

WordPress & WooCommerce Developer | Norml Studio Remote | 09/2023 - Present
Custom WooCommerce development for e-commerce and booking businesses in the US and Europe. 380+ tasks across 8
projects.
ANTS Sports - youth sports booking platform on WooCommerce (US) | Primary developer, 2025 - Present
Owned a custom booking platform end to end: multi-child family accounts, per-day session booking, cart, checkout and
legal waivers.
Built recurring billing on Stripe Subscriptions with monthly and installment plans and mid-session proration.
Designed the enrollment and payment data model (custom MySQL tables, Stripe webhooks) synced with Airtable,
cutting manual payment reconciliation for the operations team.
Implemented seat inventory for full sessions and single days, so the site never oversells a class or books a seat after a
failed payment.
Launched a referral program with auto-issued coupons, and post-purchase upsells that let customers add services to
paid orders and pay only the difference.
Delivered the full site redesign, including program search with advanced filters.
Polaclub - instant camera store on WooCommerce (Ukraine) | 2023 - 2026
Designed a tiered loyalty program: levels by annual spend, category-specific discounts, auto-enrollment at checkout
and Google sign-in.
Built a discount engine that resolves club, promo code, product and partner discounts by priority, so discounts never
stack incorrectly.

Implemented product bundles with shared stock: a bundle sells only while every item is available, and each sale
reduces stock of every item.
Connected the full Ukrainian e-commerce stack: Monobank and WayForPay payments, Checkbox fiscal receipts, Nova
Poshta delivery and a warehouse fulfillment API.
Built a review platform with photo and video reviews and automated post-purchase SMS requests through a custom
TurboSMS integration.
Fixed Core Web Vitals (mobile CLS), server errors and Merchant Center issues. Diagnosed server crashes with Sentry
and New Relic.
Other projects
Reviews Wall: WordPress plugin published on wordpress.org.
Streamline, AstraZeneca Ukraine, InsuraTec, HomeEc: WooCommerce filtering, SEO and server optimization, Figma to
WordPress pages.

WordPress Developer (Freelance) | Self-employed Remote | 09/2022 - 09/2023
Development and support of WordPress sites for small businesses.
Built a website for a plastic surgery practice from scratch: custom theme, procedure pages, before-and-after galleries
grouped by procedure, Gutenberg blocks (Genesis Blocks) and contact forms on Gravity Forms, hosted on WP Engine.
Found and fixed bugs and broken functionality, including issues after plugin, theme and WordPress core updates.
Optimized site speed: images, caching, plugin cleanup and PageSpeed issues.
Built page layouts from designs and fixed responsive issues; added new features and improvements to existing sites.

EDUCATION
Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering - Zaporizhia Polytechnic National University, 2020 - 2024

LANGUAGES
Ukrainian - native | English - Pre-Intermediate (A2)