Baki Goxhaj
Senior WordPress Engineer at Freelance
Vlora, Vlorë County, Albania
Summary
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Top SchoolBaki Goxhaj is a Senior WordPress Engineer with over 14 years of hands-on experience building enterprise-grade themes, plugins and React-based Gutenberg blocks, and a 16-year background in full-stack WordPress development. He blends deep PHP expertise with modern front-end skills (React.js, WP-REST) and a strong security and DevOps mindset—having led server migrations, hardening and monitoring for magazine and eCommerce platforms. As a former co-founder and team lead, he pairs autonomy and remote-friendly self-management with a collaborative, get-things-done approach to product-focused engineering. An active open-source contributor, he has improved tools like PHPloy (sFTP and deployment robustness) and fixed subtle UX and datetime bugs in well-known WordPress libraries, showing attention to both infrastructure and polish. Based in Vlora, Albania, he also brings teaching and product-design roots that help translate client needs into elegant, maintainable solutions.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Education - MEd, English Language/Literature and Translation Studies, Master of Education - MEd, English Language/Literature and Translation Studies at Universiteti Teknologjik 'Ismail Qemal Vlora'
Albanian, English, Italian, French
Github Skills (9)
wordpress10
css10
php10
workflow-engine10
deploying10
website-development10
html9
git9
front-end-development6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
banago/PHPloy
Feb 2014 - Jun 2022
PHPloy - Incremental Git (S)FTP deployment tool that supports multiple servers, submodules and rollbacks.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 278 commits, 103 PRs in 8 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Baki focused on enhancing the PHPloy tool, a Git-based deployment utility. Their contributions involved introducing support for sFTP, making various improvements to the code, and conducting extensive testing. Several improvements to the configuration process and directory handling were also implemented. Further improvements were implemented, specifically around cleaning directories and ensuring deployment directory creation when it did not exist.
incrementalmultiple-serversdeploymentphpdeployment-tool
banago/simple-php-website
Oct 2015 - Jul 2020
An introductory example of how to build a simple and minimal website built with PHP.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:21 commits, 34 PRs, 16 pushes in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Baki primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the PHP website. They introduced pretty links, refactored the code to remove global variable usage, and moved the content files to a new file extension. The user also updated the site to be responsive, fixed query string issues and implemented menu item highlighting based on the current page. These changes point to an active role in maintaining and improving the website's core features and user experience.
introductoryphpminimal-websitelearn-phpphp-website
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