Darrin Boutote
Senior Full Stack Developer at Self-employed
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDarrin Boutote is a Senior Full Stack Developer with 11+ years specializing in WordPress plugin and backend development, currently driving full-stack work at Medline Industries. He’s built enterprise-grade WordPress solutions, REST APIs, and error-reporting integrations for clients ranging from startups and non-profits to multinationals, and has authored plugins in the WordPress repository with over 10,000 downloads. As an independent consultant and former lead developer, he combines project management, UX/IA, and technical documentation with hands-on PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, and jQuery engineering. A long-time open-source advocate, Darrin is active in the WordPress community and support forums and holds a Master-level Smarterer WordPress ranking (93/12,000+). His background includes founding a mission-driven job board (HireCause) and bridging WordPress with external systems (e.g., Flask apps) via custom sync APIs, demonstrating both product and systems-level thinking. Based in Chicago, he brings a rare mix of operational leadership and deep platform expertise to web projects.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Psychology, Psychology at Fairfield University
Github Skills (10)
breeze4
jquery3
wordpress3
jquery-plugin3
nav3
responsive2
jquery-ui2
lightbox1
retina1
javascript1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
dboutote/Advanced-Term-Fields
Jan 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:37 commits, 34 pushes, 3 branches in 2 months
dboutote/Advanced-Comments-Widget
Mar 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:33 commits, 1 branch in 1 month
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