Aigars Silkalns
Crafter And Founder at Colorlib
Riga, Vidzeme, Latvia
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Top SchoolAigars Silkalns is a founder and front-end-focused web craftsman with 12 years of experience building and managing web projects from design to deployment. As the founder of Colorlib he blends hands-on UI development—contributing to popular WordPress Bootstrap themes like Sparkling and Activello—with company leadership, recruiting and content marketing. He’s skilled across modern front-end frameworks (jQuery, Angular, React, Vue), PHP/WordPress, and SaaS product thinking, and has a pragmatic eye for CSS and accessibility improvements. His background in technical recruiting and marketing gives him a rare cross-discipline perspective that helps translate user needs into polished, production-ready themes and content strategies.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Business Administration, BSc, Business Administration at Banku AugstskolaERASMUS, Management, ERASMUS, Management at ESCE - Escola Superior de Ciências Empresariais (IPS)RKĢ
English, Latvian
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Github Skills (9)
wordpress10
css10
bootstra10
front-end-development10
bootstrap10
font-awesome9
html9
responsive-design9
javascript7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ColorlibHQ/Sparkling
May 2014 - Oct 2019
WordPress Bootstrap 3 theme with dozens of options powered by WordPress Customizer
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:181 commits, 58 PRs, 137 pushes in 5 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Aigars primarily contributed to the front-end development of the WordPress theme. Their commits focused on refining the user interface, including removing duplicate CSS classes and making tiny tweaks for mobile devices. They also updated the theme's styling, such as updating Font Awesome icons to version 4.1 and later to 4.3. They made further improvements with code styling and implementing of the theme's settings into the customizer.
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ColorlibHQ/Activello
Nov 2015 - Feb 2021
WordPress Bootstrap blog theme with doeznes of options using WordPress Customizer
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:39 commits, 26 PRs, 49 pushes in 5 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Aigars primarily focused on front-end improvements for the WordPress theme. Their contributions include CSS modifications to enhance button styles, search bar elements, and overall visual presentation. They also updated the header search icon and implemented code cleanup tasks. Additionally, they updated the Bootstrap and Font Awesome frameworks, and improved the accessibility of the theme with the updated skip link focus script.
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