Marcus Delgado

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Senior WordPress Developer with 9 years building performant, accessible websites and custom plugins for SaaS brands, e-commerce clients, and media publishers. Specializes in headless WordPress architectures, WooCommerce optimization, and CI/CD-integrated deployment pipelines. Reduced average page load times by 41% across a 12-site agency portfolio and delivered 6 enterprise theme builds under budget in the past three years.

Work Experience

Senior WordPress DeveloperMar 2020 - Present

Brightline Digital Agency, Austin, TX

Architected a headless WordPress + Next.js stack for a B2B SaaS client, cutting Time to First Byte by 54% and increasing organic sessions 28% within 90 days of launch.
Built and maintained a custom WooCommerce plugin suite handling $4.2M in annual transaction volume, reducing checkout abandonment by 17% through UX-driven cart flow improvements.
Led a 4-developer team through a full platform migration for a 1,200-page media publisher, completing the project 3 weeks ahead of schedule and under the $85K budget cap.

WordPress DeveloperJun 2017 - Feb 2020

Nexora Creative Studio, Denver, CO

Developed 14 bespoke Gutenberg block libraries for enterprise clients, reducing content-team publishing time by an average of 35% per site.
Integrated REST API connections between WordPress and Salesforce CRM for a healthcare client, automating lead capture that previously required 6 hours of manual data entry per week.
Optimized hosting configurations on WP Engine and Kinsta for 8 client sites, achieving 99.97% uptime and trimming average server response times from 680ms to 190ms.

Junior WordPress DeveloperAug 2015 - May 2017

Stackframe Labs, Remote

Converted 22 legacy PHP 5 themes to PHP 7-compatible, standards-compliant code, eliminating a backlog of 300+ deprecation warnings across the client roster.
Built a membership portal using MemberPress and custom post types serving 4,500 active subscribers, with a payment failure rate below 0.8%.
Collaborated with designers to implement pixel-accurate responsive layouts, reducing QA revision cycles from an average of 4 rounds to 1.5 per project.

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WordPress Core & Gutenberg Block DevelopmentWooCommerce Customization & ExtensionPHP 8 / MySQL / REST APIReact.js / Next.js (Headless WordPress)ACF Pro, Custom Post Types & TaxonomiesGit, GitHub Actions, CI/CD PipelinesWP Engine, Kinsta, AWS Lightsail HostingCore Web Vitals Optimization & Accessibility (WCAG 2.1)Google Analytics 4, Tag Manager & Conversion Tracking

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