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Valentin Genev

Freelance web designer and WordPress developer

About me

I spend most of my time on projects related to web design and WP theme development. When I'm not occupied by work, I'm trying to catch up with the ever-evolving technologies outside of the WP ecosystem.

I would like to continue advancing my front-end skills; I'm planning on learning Vue JS and Laravel, and I’m trying to build WordPress blocks with React.

Skills

  • WordPress;
  • JavaScript;
  • HTML5;
  • php;
  • SCSS;
  • jQuery;
  • Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator;
  • web design.

Recent projects

Alex Penda

WordPress site; subcontract — theme and plugin development only

A big chunk of this site's content is shown with AJAX requests, which was fairly new for me. The site utilises new post type for some of its content — the events; this feature is handled by a plugin to ensure that the content will continue to appear after a theme change.

E and S Tax Services

WordPress site; design and development

I tried to make this site as easy to maintain as I can; almost all of its content is handled by the block editor, widget areas and a custom post type.

Oborishte 5

WordPress site; subcontract — theme and plugin development only

This project required the building of quite a few unique page templates handled mostly by custom fields (ACF) and a custom post type

Side projects

Sand Carousel WP

This is a WordPress carousel plugin. It utilises a custom post type for the slide creation and a shortcode for the insertion. The slides are grouped into a custom taxonomy; every group represents a single carousel. The carousel comes with a minimal design that's easy to rewrite and fairly semantic HTML.

Experience

Freelance Web Designer

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In my day-to-day work, I'm mostly occupied with WordPress theme development. Often, I'm a subcontractor for agencies or a freelance designers.

HTML Animator

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Worked for Bannerjiinica Ltd.
I was mainly involved in producing animated HTML banners and, more rarely, websites. For animation, we used GSAP (GreenSock Animation Platform).

Education

Engineering Design at Technical University of Sofia

– present

I studied design and engineering disciplines; mainly focusing on the design.
At the beginning of my 6th semester, I began attending programming courses at Telerik Academy.

School of Mathematics and Natural Science Geo Milev

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I studied biology and chemistry.

Courses

  • Telerik Academy: C#, OOP, JavaScript, etc.;
  • XS Software: Ruby on Rails;
  • StangaOne1: JavaScript animation;
  • TechHuddle: ReactJS and Redux.