Filip Ilic
Slovenia
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolFilip Ilic is a seasoned WordPress developer with nearly two decades of full‑stack experience building premium themes, plugins, and custom infrastructure that power hundreds of thousands of sites and millions of downloads. Currently at Emilia Capital he maintains widely used plugins (including AAA Option Optimizer with 9,000+ active installs) and runs CI/CD, static analysis, and Docker-backed workflows to keep releases fast and reliable. His background includes leading development at Avada and co‑founding Pukka Themes, giving him deep product and marketplace insight as well as hands‑on expertise in PHP, JavaScript, REST APIs and WordPress architecture. He brings a security‑minded approach from past research and code review work, which informs robust plugin design and incident avoidance. Comfortable as an individual contributor or technical lead, he’s open to freelance and contract collaborations and enjoys solving the engineering edge cases where WordPress meets real production constraints.
9 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Faculty of Mathematics University of Belgrade
Github Skills (25)
translation10
wordpress10
localization10
wordpress-plugin10
cms9
full-stack9
typescript9
scrollbar8
statistics8
ecommerce7
iphone7
plugin7
yoast7
php7
glossary6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ProgressPlanner/pp-glossary
Nov 2025 - Jun 2026
A semantic, accessible WordPress glossary plugin that automatically links terms to hover-triggered popover definitions.
Contributions:1 release, 4 reviews, 1 PR in 7 months
popoverwordpressglossaryglossary-generatorplugin
ilicfilip/ilicfilip.github.io
Apr 2025 - Dec 2025
Contributions:12 pushes, 3 branches in 8 months
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