Trac N.

Trac N.

Senior Wordpress Developer

Ho Chi Minh , Vietnam
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About Me

Trac is a skilled software engineer with over a decade of professional experience in web development and PHP with impressive communication skills. He has worked in a variety of roles on teams, both small and large, and he is particularly fond of Trello-based task management. His skillset includes things like WordPress (WooCommerce) development, security improvement, scalability, and code quality. He is also a PHP expert with experience in Laravel, Yii, Symfony, and modern development processes.

Work history

Toptal Clients
WordPress Developer (Contract)
2018 - Present (6 years)
Remote
  • Built a WordPress RESTful API to serve a front-end application for better performance (https://blog-api.moneysmart.sg/wp-json/ms/).

  • Built new UIs and codebases (or continue from current code) for many websites to improve UX and SEO using WordPress and WooCommerce (https://www.homehouse.co.uk/; http://freeze-frame.com.au/ http://alfree.com.au/; https://blog.moneysmart.sg/).

  • Created WordPress (WooCommerce) plugins for custom needs (https://wordpress.org/plugins/tamara-checkout/).

  • Applied unit tests and integration tests (Codeception) to WordPress.

Wizeline
Software Engineer
2016 - 2018 (2 years)
Remote

Contributed to a website system for NewsCorp Australia: news.com.au, heraldsun.com.au, dailytelegraph.com.au, and more.

Mamamia.com.au
VN | Head of Tech
2015 - 2016 (1 year)
Remote

Contributed to the development of the news website using Bedrock.

Top3 Media
Technical Director
2014 - 2015 (1 year)
Remote
  • Created training documents for fresh developers to get familiar with their jobs ASAP.

  • Provided consultation for the sales team.

  • Managed all projects.

River Orchid
Technical Manager
2012 - 2013 (1 year)
Remote

Rebuilt the web system for BWF, including a back-end system built on Yii to input data, a cron-task system to crawl data from third parties, and a WP front end to display tournament results to the user.

Plus Factory
Tech Lead
2010 - 2012 (2 years)
Remote

Used WP to develop small to medium websites for companies in China and the US. Provided a back-end API for some mobile applications.

Techpropulsion Labs
Software Engineer
2009 - 2010 (1 year)
Remote
  • Worked on projects with Rails 2.

  • Learned and used the Nokogiri gem to do data crawling for projects.

Ruby on Rails (RoR) Ruby

Portfolio

News System for NewsCorp Australia

I helped develop all masthead websites for NewsCorp Australia, contributing on WP and front-end development with team members.

BWF Website System

Technical architect, lead developer, and project manager with a team of six people. Created a back-end system for data management (on Yii framework), a cron-task system for crawling data from https://www.tournamentsoftware.com to input data for system, and a template for the front end of the system (in WordPress) including: http://bwfbadminton.com/ http://bwfworldchampionships.com/ http://bwfworldsuperseries.com/ http://olympics.bwfbadminton.com/ http://bwfbadminton.cn/

A Promising Singaporean Startup

I played a key role in the team to develop the website for one of the most promising startups in Singapore 2016. This website is built on Yii2/MySQL.

WordPress Plugin – Enpii Base

A WordPress plugin to make my WordPress development faster and more contemporary. It works as a composer package (so you may need to use Bedrock WordPress for it) and requires the Advanced Custom Fields Pro plugin to work. It uses Bower to manage client-side resources, AuraPHP or dependencies and the lazy loading component/service.

WordPress Plugin – Facebook Comment Sync

This is a small plugin to help synchronize Facebook comments on each single URL to WordPress' core comments system (including threaded comments).

Selfhacked

Build a new site for Selfhacked to improve UI and SEO performance.

Campark Resorts System and HauntManor

A Toptal client project. I created a WordPress multisite system. Selected technologies and skills employed include ACF, WordPress Bedrock, Git, Composer, HTML/CSS, and on-page SEO.

Hundreds of Small to Medium Websites

As the leader of a team at a digital agency, I created working templates, did project management, and trained the team to complete hundreds of websites (mainly in WP).

Education

Education
Bachelor of Arts Degree in Computer Science
Ho Chi Minh City PolyTechnic University
2000 - 2005 (5 years)