Cliff Paulick
Owner, Marketing Systems And Lead Generation Consultant
Owasso, Oklahoma, United States
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Top SchoolCliff Paulick is an experienced WordPress-focused developer and marketing systems consultant with 12+ years helping small businesses scale lead generation, automation, and operations. As owner of TourKick and a freelance expert on Codeable and Toptal, he combines hands-on PHP/backend work with practical SEO, PPC, GBP, CRM, and automation expertise to deliver long-lasting, scalable solutions. He has contributed backend fixes and enhancements to widely used plugins like The Events Calendar and has supported millions of downloads through Modern Tribe projects, evidencing attention to performance and backward compatibility. Cliff pairs technical discipline (Composer, REST APIs, automated testing) with client-facing skills—training agencies, running group coaching, and building local lead-gen stacks. His background in finance and operations (MBA, brokerage ownership, and university-level data/process work) gives him uncommon fluency in turning analytics and workflows into reliable revenue systems. Calm, methodical, and values-driven, he prioritizes integrity, consistency, and automation over flashy short-term fixes.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
M.B.A., Finance concentration, 3.67, M.B.A., Finance concentration, 3.67 at Oral Roberts University
Stackoverflow
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21kreached
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3questions
Github Skills (15)
wordpress10
php10
event-calendar10
wordpress-plugin10
apidoc9
api9
git8
codeception6
bxslider6
css6
twitter-bootstrap6
rotation6
custom-fields6
facebook-open-graph6
zsh6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
the-events-calendar/the-events-calendar
Feb 2016 - Jan 2020
The Events Calendar WordPress plugin
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:142 commits, 58 PRs, 80 pushes in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Cliff primarily focused on improving and maintaining the backend of the "The Events Calendar" WordPress plugin. Their commits addressed code comments, corrected references to the Themer's Guide, and updated Google Maps integration. The contributions include refactoring and updating variable names to prevent confusion with the PRO version of the plugin. Furthermore, the user fixed various typos and made minor adjustments to ensure the proper display of Google Maps links.
eventscalendarwordpressthe-events-calendarcalendar-events
the-events-calendar/products-extensions
Dec 2016 - Jan 2019
Official extensions for The Events Calendar, Event Tickets, and their premium add-ons.
Contributions:120 commits, 32 PRs, 83 pushes in 2 years 1 month
eventsadd-onscalendarevent-ticketsthe-events-calendar
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