Filip Ilic
Wordpress Developer at Emilia Capital
Serbia
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.
8 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Faculty of Mathematics University of Belgrade
Github Skills (17)
translation10
wordpress10
localization10
wordpress-plugin10
php8
iphone7
ipad7
woocommerce7
commerce6
jquery6
ecommerce6
javascript4
shopping-cart4
python4
yoast2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
startitrs/vokativi
Jun 2022 - Jun 2022
Vokativi srpskih imena
Contributions:10 commits, 12 pushes in 7 days
ProgressPlanner/progress-planner
Oct 2024 - Apr 2025
Progress Planner helps you track your website statistics and rewards you with badges when you're doing well!
Contributions:98 reviews, 167 PRs, 713 pushes in 5 months
wordpresswordpress-plugin
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