Afif J.

Afif J.

Boqaata, Lebanon
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About Me

Afif is a highly experienced senior web developer with a decade of expertise in successfully crafting websites across diverse industries including eCommerce, portfolio, blog, corporate, and various other domains. His extensive skill set revolves primarily around PHP MySQL, proficiently utilizing a range of platforms and content management systems such as WordPress, Drupal, Symfony, and Laravel. Additionally, Afif has successfully developed websites utilizing Shopify and PrestaShop.

AI, ML & LLM

Joomla

Frontend

HTML CSS JavaScript Bootstrap PSD to HTML

Backend

PHP Laravel 5 WordPress API Node.js WooCommerce API REST APIs Web Scraping Payment APIs

Database

MySQL MongoDB MySQLi Excel to MySQL

DevOps

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Amazon S3 (AWS S3)

QA & Testing

Penetration Testing

Workflow

Git Slack JIRA Figma

Other

Symfony Yii Yii 2 CodeIgniter jQuery Liquid Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) Sublime Text 3 Intellij IDEA Matlab PrestaShop Sketch FileMaker Responsive Hosting Search Engine Optimization (SEO) UI Design Windows XAMPP WordPress Shopify WordPress Theme Design Drupal WooCommerce Webflow Responsive Web Apps Custom Post Types Taxonomy Custom Themes WordPress Design WordPress Themes Site Speed Optimization Page Speed Optimization WordPress Plugins Wamp Plugins Responsive UI PSD to WordPress Elementor User Interface (UI) RTL Responsive Design User Experience (UX) eCommerce Migration Web UI SEO Tools Landing Pages Web Development Shopify Design Gravity Forms Mobile eCommerce eCommerce Development Web Design

Work history

Elena Christodoulou
WordPress Developer
2022 - 2023 (1 year)
Co.gent
Senior Web Developer
2021 - Present (4 years)
Remote

  • Developing new custom plugins/themes (with third party api connection)

  • Working on woocommerce websites stores using WordPress, php, MySQL

  • Developing websites using Shopify and integrating custom sections and fields

Eurisko Mobility
Senior Web Developer
2020 - 2021 (1 year)
Remote

  • Learning nodejs and start working on real backend projects using REST APIs, MongoDB, express, middlewares, aggregations, Joi validation and Jest unit tests

  • Working on woocommerce websites and multivendor stores using WordPress, php, MySQL

  • Working on Hiverse video calls using Nodejs mediasoup module to generate video/audio between participants

Paravision
Senior Web Developer
2017 - 2020 (3 years)
Remote

  • Working on Touristtube software CMS backend which is similar to Expedia using Symfony PHP framework

  • UAE Kiosk: a project to inform tourists about tourism in UAE, I worked on PHP/MYSQL from scratch

  • Boccard website: my role was to make changes on the menu and homepage data using Drupal CMS

Freelance
Senior Web Developer
2013 - 2022 (9 years)
Eastline Marketing
PHP Web Developer
2013 - 2017 (4 years)
Layout International
Junior PHP Developer
2012 - 2013 (1 year)
Katamu Co Inc
Shopify Developer via Toptal
Present (2025 years)
Katamu Co Inc
Shopify Developer
Present (2025 years)
Micheal Shakaid
WordPress Developer
Present (2025 years)
Dounia Samango-Turner
Senior Shopify Developer
Present (2025 years)
ELLO Cafe SARL
WordPress Developer
Present (2025 years)

Showcase

eCommerce Website for PillowtalkDerm

  • Professional profile crafted for skilled developers

  • Shopify-based eCommerce website designed for skincare product sales with seamless third-party API integration

  • Website is mobile-responsive, enabling effortless retrieval of product lists and detailed ingredient information.

eCommerce Website for Lensbooking

  • Platform provides personalized retail website for eye contact lenses, customized according to individual client requirements including discount and quantity

  • Seamlessly integrates with WordPress API for efficient handling of eCommerce operations

  • Built specifically for the project titled 'eCommerce Website for Lensbooking'

WordPress Plugin for Importing Products Using an API

  • Advanced plugin designed to access and extract data from an external API for a wide range of products

  • Includes key features like categories, subcategories, variations, attributes, accurate pricing, SKUs, and versatile product descriptions

  • The plugin is meant to seamlessly incorporate the extracted data into WordPress for importing products

Education

Education
Master's Degree in Computer Engineering
Lebanese International University (LIU)
2010 - 2011 (1 year)
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
ISSAE
2007 - 2010 (3 years)