Alisa UmnovaSenior Web Developer

Good afternoon from Vlorë, Albania

Hi, I'm Alisa.

Senior Web Developer specializing in WordPress, Gutenberg and Vue.

I make the web flexible

Custom Gutenberg blocks built with React and PHP, so editors can build pages on their own and every layout stays consistent with the rest of the site.

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Custom themes & pluginsGutenberg blocksWP-CLIACFWooCommerceElementorWP-CronCustom post typesVue 2/3TypeScriptReactAstroPiniaVuetifyQuasarSCSSMicro-frontendsModule FederationShared UI librariesHeadless CMS
VitestJestPlaywrightCypressPHPNode.js / ExpressRESTSSOSSEStrapiMySQLGitViteDockerCI/CDFigmaClaude CodeCursorOpenAI API
9+years building for the webDifferent stacks. Same curiosity.
~30→90PageSpeed Insights scoreSame website. A much faster experience.
20+engineers on a shared UI libraryBuilt components used across 4–5 teams.
Vue 2→3frontend migrationSame product, newer foundations.

Experience

From WordPress to micro-frontends:
9+ years of building.

  1. Freelance Web Developer

    Confidential software company | Sep 2026 — Present
    WordPressReactGutenbergPHPCPT

    Part-time

    • Rebuilding an EdTech company's WordPress website with custom React-based Gutenberg blocks, custom post types and taxonomies, using an AI-assisted workflow.

  2. Senior Frontend Developer

    Zeal Holdings Limited | Dec 2024 — Aug 2026
    Vue 3TypeScriptWordPressGutenbergAstroModule FederationPlaywright

    FinTech platform used by traders, partners and internal teams

    • Migrated the ZFX WordPress site from Elementor to Gutenberg and custom templates, improving its PageSpeed Insights score by around 10 points and reducing the database size from 5 GB to 3.5 GB.
    • Migrated another WordPress site to Astro, raising its PageSpeed Insights score from ~30 to 90 on mobile and desktop.
    • Built WordPress plugins (economic calendar, Chinese-market news feed, content migration to Strapi) and dynamic Gutenberg blocks with React/PHP.
    • Shipped trading platform features in Vue 3, TypeScript, Pinia and Vuetify: onboarding missions, campaigns, an economic calendar, a marketing asset portal.
    • Built components for a shared UI library used by 20+ engineers across 4–5 teams; added Playwright E2E tests and increased test coverage with Vitest.
    • Contributed to a micro-frontend architecture built with Vite and Module Federation, and migrated apps from Vue 2 to Vue 3.
    • Built Node.js services, contributed to SSO integration and worked with SRE and DevOps teams on releases and production incident resolution.

  3. Senior Vue.js Frontend Developer

    mySupply | Nov 2023 — Dec 2024
    Vue 3QuasarNode/ExpressOpenAISSEStorybook

    AI-powered procurement platform from a German startup

    • Primary developer of the AI Buying Agent: developed it from a proof of concept into a production application with a Vue/Quasar frontend, Node/Express backend and OpenAI APIs.
    • Built negotiation interfaces with real-time updates via SSE, added tests with Vitest and documented UI components in Storybook.
    • Maintained the company's WordPress website and built pages with Elementor.

  4. JavaScript Frontend Engineer

    N-iX | Jul 2022 — Oct 2023
    JavaScriptJestWebpackSAP Hybris

    Multi-country B2B e-commerce platform built on SAP Hybris

    • Built user interfaces from Figma designs for Viking's SAP Hybris B2B e-commerce platform.
    • Increased test coverage from ~35% to 90% using Jest and optimized Gulp/Webpack builds.

  5. JavaScript Engineer

    Intellias | Mar 2021 — Jul 2022
    JavaScriptAEMnpm

    Enterprise e-commerce platform

    • Built user interfaces from Adobe XD designs for CDW’s AEM blog and e-commerce platform.
    • Developed reusable components and npm packages, tested with Karma/Jasmine.

  6. Frontend Developer

    AB Soft | Oct 2020 — Feb 2021
    AEMVanilla JS

    Cloud communications and collaboration platform for businesses

    • Built reusable AEM components for RingCentral and replaced jQuery with vanilla JavaScript.

  7. Frontend Developer

    Bambuk Design Studio | Mar 2020 — Oct 2020
    WordPressHeadlessVue.jsGSAPThree.jsPixiJS
    • Built custom-designed websites using WordPress, including headless setups with Vue.js frontends.
    • Implemented website animations with GSAP, Three.js and PixiJS.

  8. Frontend Developer

    Otakoyi | Apr 2018 — Mar 2020
    ACFPHPElementorVue 2
    • Delivered responsive corporate and e-commerce sites across 3–4 concurrent projects.
    • Built custom WordPress themes with PHP and ACF, WordPress plugins, Elementor components and Vue 2 features.

  9. Freelance Frontend Developer

    Self-employed | Mar 2017 — Mar 2018
    HTMLCSSjQuery
    • Built and maintained small business websites with HTML, CSS, JavaScript and jQuery.

Selected work

What I've built.

Ambiq

Bambuk Design Studio (opens in a new tab)

I built this WordPress website for Ambiq, a semiconductor company, based on designs by Bambuk Design Studio. From the first template to launch, I developed custom page templates with ACF, product and application pages, responsive layouts, and animations using SVG, GSAP and Three.js.

WordPressACFGSAPThree.js

Design, branding and illustrations: Bambuk Design Studio. Screen recording of the original website.

Choccovia

Otakoyi (opens in a new tab)

I worked primarily on the frontend of this website for Choccovia, a Ukrainian chocolate manufacturer, and contributed to the backend of its custom PHP CMS. The site features a catalog organized by product type and a homepage carousel showcasing products with descriptions and packaging sizes.

PHPCustom CMS
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Freelance

More projects.

Aircraft Marketplace

I built this aircraft marketplace from scratch using WordPress, PHP and Bootstrap, with custom features built using WordPress hooks and filters. The site supports user-submitted listings and advanced search filters. I also developed a plugin that uses WP-Cron to collect aircraft data from multiple platforms and automatically create listings.

Beyond the marketplace, I built landing pages and optimized other websites for the same client.

WordPressPHPBootstrapCustom pluginWP-Cron

Agency client sites

Rebuilt, optimized and extended client websites for Jump.team using Elementor, KingComposer and WooCommerce. Also worked on headless WordPress projects.

WordPressElementorWooCommerce

Boxing Academy

I migrated a custom PHP website for a boxing club network to WordPress, building a custom theme and reworking the page layouts.

PHPWordPressCustom themeMigration

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