Beyond WordPress
An engineer who ships. WordPress is one competency, not the whole toolbox.
Most of the work you see here runs on WordPress and WooCommerce, and that stack is a deep strength. It is not the boundary. The real skill is building the right thing on the right platform and getting it into production.
That has meant Shopify storefronts, a Drupal 11 theme, a Roots/Sage/Bedrock developer stack, and the Linux and container work that keeps it all online. What follows is an honest map of that range, calibrated by what has actually been built and shipped.
An honest skills matrix
Two columns, drawn straight from real projects. The left column is backed by shipped artifacts. The right column is genuine working knowledge, held to a lower bar on purpose.
Proven
Artifact-backed. Used to ship the projects in this portfolio.
- PHP / MySQL
- JavaScript / jQuery / AJAX
- WordPress custom themes
- WordPress plugins and hooks
- WordPress REST API
- WooCommerce
- Shopify (Liquid, OS 2.0)
- Shopify REST + GraphQL
- Webflow
- Custom taxonomy / information architecture
- Paid Memberships Pro subscription systems
- Git / GitHub / Bitbucket
- Linux
- cPanel / WHM
- Nginx
- Docker
- AWS S3
- Drupal 11 custom themes
Working knowledge
Real hands-on time, held honestly to a lower bar than the Proven column.
- C# / ASP.NET 4.5
- SQL Server stored procedures
- Python
- BigCommerce
- Zen Cart
- Figma
- Adobe XD
The C# / ASP.NET and SQL Server work traces to a 2014 to 2015 internship. It is real, and it is deliberately not overstated.
Three notes from outside the WordPress lane
Short, plain-language write-ups on the work that proves the range is real, not aspirational.
C# / ASP.NET + SQL Server
At North East Fasteners I worked in C# and ASP.NET 4.5, wiring the application layer to SQL Server through stored procedures rather than ad hoc queries. It was an early, formative look at a compiled, strongly typed stack and at keeping data logic in the database where it belongs.
- C# / ASP.NET 4.5
- SQL Server
- Stored procedures
Drupal 11 custom theme
Beyond WordPress themes, I have built a custom theme on Drupal 11. Working in a second major CMS means adapting to a different templating model, render pipeline, and configuration approach, and it is a direct answer to the idea that the skill set is one platform deep.
- Drupal 11
- Custom theme
- Twig templating
Where the sites actually live
Shipping is not just code. I work across Linux servers, Nginx, Docker containers, and AWS S3 for storage and asset delivery, plus cPanel / WHM for host management. The result is knowing how a build reaches production and stays reachable, not just how it runs on a laptop.
- Linux
- Nginx
- Docker
- AWS S3
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