I’m Anatoliy Dovgun

Marketplace and app-level features for international clients, including a services marketplace with bookings.

Responsibilities

• Build marketplace features and app-level functionality.
• Develop booking logic for services.
• Support end-to-end operations through CRM integration.

Technical solutions

• Implemented complex booking logic.
• Integrated WordPress with Zoho CRM.
• Built React-based UI parts and Gutenberg blocks.

International software development company. Lead full-stack WordPress development for Wetelo projects: custom builds, integrations and headless setups.

Responsibilities

• Lead WordPress development on client projects.
• Take part in architecture discussions.
• Deliver integrations with external services and CRM (HubSpot).

Technical solutions

• Built custom WordPress plugins for client business logic.
• Implemented headless setups where the project needed them.
• Integrated identity verification (SumSub) for a venture group website.

Grew out of Dovgun.com in 2017. Own studio and open-source ecosystem of WordPress plugins, plus an educational platform on WordPress architecture and engineering practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead client projects from requirements to release.
• Maintain the 4WP plugin ecosystem (10+ plugins on WordPress.org, dozens on GitHub).
• Write learning materials and case studies on OOP, SOLID, DDD and WordPress hooks.

Technical solutions

• Designed a modular plugin architecture with shared services between plugins (4wp-bundle).
• Built 4WP-Booking as a domain-driven booking platform with pluggable calendar providers.
• Built 4WP Headless App: React front end on WordPress, AI-ready tooling.
• Started MCP / Abilities API integration across 4WP plugins (AI workflow automation).

High-load content platform and newsletter for a large community: articles, video, podcasts, guest contributions and curated book lists.

Responsibilities

• Develop features on a high-traffic WordPress platform.
• Keep the content build system and architecture maintainable.
• Improve performance of existing systems.

Technical solutions

• Built search and filtering for content discovery (Elasticsearch).
• Worked with the caching layer to keep the site fast under heavy traffic.
• Extended the content system with ACF and Gutenberg blocks.

Platform for installers and companies deploying renewable energy solutions.

Responsibilities

• Build the installers portal with recommended equipment flows.
• Deliver an LMS for staff training.
• Integrate the site with the back-office system.

Technical solutions

• Built a credit calculator for installation financing.
• Built an interactive US states map with analytics dashboards.
• Developed custom Gutenberg blocks and Zoho integrations.

Full-stack WordPress development for a distributed product team: corporate sites, paid content platforms, stores.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain custom themes and Gutenberg blocks.
• Implement WooCommerce features.
• Own performance improvements and cross-browser QA.

Technical solutions

• Built a paid content platform with memberships, subscriptions and payment gateways.
• Delivered React-based UI components.
• Integrated sites with existing APIs; job-board integration for a corporate site.

Creative agency: booking systems, event registration and multilingual corporate sites.

Responsibilities

• Lead development on agency projects (team lead on two of them).
• Coordinate front-end and back-end developers.
• Support and finish projects built on ACF.

Technical solutions

• Built an apartment booking system integrated with Bidrento CRM (availability, tenants, rental agreements, two payment systems).
• Built an event registration system with custom WPBakery add-ons.
• Integrated leads export to Google Sheets and Smaily email marketing.

Long-term remote client work: business websites, online stores, marketplaces and niche solutions.

Responsibilities

• Develop custom client solutions.
• Support and extend existing projects and online stores.
• Coordinate releases with stakeholders.

Technical solutions

• Built WooCommerce stores with custom product grouping, brand pages and CPT search.
• Integrated databases with applications (Firebase).
• Improved performance and UX with iterative updates.

LMS for universities and schools.

Responsibilities

• Develop back-end modules on WordPress Multisite.

Technical solutions

• Built the lessons schedule module.
• Built the journal of evaluations module.

Projects from corporate sites to travel and real estate portals, plus online marketplaces with CRM integrations.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery of client projects.

Technical solutions

• Built marketplaces with CRM integration (Salesforce).
• Built travel and real estate portals.

Maintained a portfolio of six premium WordPress themes on ThemeForest, including award-winning themes built on WPBakery with pre-installed demo content.

Responsibilities

• Maintained six premium themes and shipped regular micro-releases.
• Added new features: icon sets, templates, content blocks.
• Handled customer support through the ticket system.

Technical solutions

• Extended WPBakery-based themes with new elements and page templates.
• Maintained one-click demo imports for each theme.
• Worked in a Docker-based development environment with Git (Bitbucket) automated release flow.

A small web studio (4–7 people) that built websites and web solutions for business, from the first conversation with the Client to launch.

Responsibilities

• Talked to Clients directly: understood the request, proposed a solution, agreed scope and price.
• Led the team as a servant leader: Scrum, full freedom and trust inside the team.
• Assembled a team with every role a Client project needs: designer, front-end and back-end developers.
• Stepped into development myself to finish and polish projects.

Technical solutions

• Set up an Agile / Scrum process: short sprints, visible progress for the Client at every step.
• One team, one point of contact: the Client talked to the person who also knew the code.

A web production company that delivered design, development and promotion as a white-label partner for advertising agencies: the agencies released our work under their own brand. Several offices, more than 20 people, dozens of projects shipped every month.

Responsibilities

• Led the development department across several offices.
• Built the business process end to end: from hiring and setting up workplaces to quality control and delivery to the Client.
• Took requests from agencies, turned them into specifications and planned the work.
• Distributed tasks, handled escalations, mentored developers, designers and content specialists.

Technical solutions

• Set up a production flow that delivered dozens of projects a month on time and under the agencies' brands.
• Standardised how design, development and promotion worked together, so every project followed the same steps from brief to release.
• Delivered WordPress sites, marketplaces and custom web solutions, with SEO and content optimisation included.

Freelance period: diverse projects built in partnership with design agencies, including online radio stations, real estate platforms and sports projects.

Responsibilities

• Took development projects from design agencies and delivered them to their Clients.
• Turned agency designs into working websites and web platforms.
• Supported and extended projects after launch.

Technical solutions

• Built online radio station websites.
• Built real estate platforms with property listings.
• Built sports project websites.
• Developed custom PHP solutions on Zend Framework and CodeIgniter.

My first web studio: portals, classifieds, business directories and a paid photo stock.

Responsibilities

• Worked as a junior and front-end developer.
• Supported and launched projects, worked directly with Clients.

Network and infrastructure for a bank: branch networking, ATM and POS terminal uptime.

Responsibilities

• Maintained Cisco routers and the branch network.
• Kept ATMs and POS terminals online, including GSM modules for network connectivity.
• Handled hands-on office IT support, down to refilling printer cartridges 😉
• Learned to work within the hierarchy and processes of a large financial institution.

First job in IT and first projects in web development: an internal corporate portal for supermarket managers.

Responsibilities

• Built my first website: an internal corporate portal for supermarket managers.
• Developed pages and features with PHP, HTML, jQuery and Smarty.
• Presented the portal to dozens of supermarket directors.
• Learned the full web development cycle, from the first page to a working product in real use.