Michael Delaney
Web Developer at ZAG Interactive
Connecticut, United States
Summary
🤩
RockstarMichael Delaney is a seasoned full-stack web developer and DevOps enthusiast with 12+ years building reliable digital marketing products and automations that prioritize usability and maintainability. He blends hands-on PHP/Laravel and WordPress expertise with modern front-end tooling (HTML5, Tailwind, Webpack) and CI/CD practices using GitHub Actions and Ansible to streamline deployments across shared and VPS hosting. As a former director who led a team of developers, he created standards, workflows and dev-ops tools to remove repetitive work and improve delivery velocity. An active open-source contributor, he has enhanced the popular roots/sage WordPress starter theme with accessibility, internationalization, and JS/config refinements. Based in Connecticut, Michael brings a pragmatic, standards-driven approach to solving web problems and a constant appetite for learning better, well-known solutions.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (11)
wordpress10
php10
tailwindcss10
laravel-mix9
laravel9
javascript8
front-end-development8
css7
html7
webpack6
webpacker6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
roots/sage
Dec 2016 - Jan 2021
WordPress starter theme with Laravel Blade components and templates, Tailwind CSS, and block editor support
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 review, 18 commits, 14 PRs in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the theme's front-end and WordPress integration aspects. They added a search form partial and implemented functionality to integrate it with WordPress's search capabilities. They also made updates to JavaScript configuration, modified helper functions, and refactored Blade templates for improved functionality, including adding a "skip to content" link for accessibility. Furthermore, the user adjusted the template to incorporate a text domain for better translation support.
laravel-bladetailwindcsswordpresswordpress-starter-themewordpress-theme
MWDelaney/sage-advanced-custom-fields
Nov 2017 - Feb 2021
Sets up saving and loading Advanced Custom Fields data as JSON for easy version control. Intended for use with Roots/Sage.
Contributions:7 releases, 17 commits, 2 PRs in 3 years 2 months
advanced-custom-fieldsversion-controlwordpresswordpress-themeroots
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.