Pedro Batista — WordPress Developer
Brasília, Brazil (UTC−3, full overlap with US Eastern hours). Open to 100% remote roles worldwide.
WordPress developer with 6+ years building and maintaining production websites for government, enterprise, and e-commerce clients. Specializes in custom plugin development and REST API integrations, backed by full LAMP stack administration and a UX/UI design foundation. Delivered a 300% traffic increase on a national judicial platform and shipped 150+ WordPress sites across institutional, e-commerce, and real-estate portfolios. Fluent English, native Portuguese, with a decade of experience working with international English-speaking teams and customers.
Professional Experience
Senior Web Designer and Developer — Superior Court of Justice (STJ) / National School for the Training of Magistrates (ENFAM) (12/2022 – Present)
- Grew daily website traffic by 300%, measured in unique daily visits, by leading a UX-driven redesign of the institution's site architecture, navigation, and page templates.
- Launched the ENAM national magistracy exam portal, which served 30,000+ visits in under one month, by building an accessible WordPress front end engineered to hold peak exam-period traffic.
- Eliminated the manual consolidation of academic calendars across multiple judicial schools by developing a custom WordPress plugin that pulls and unifies their schedules through REST API integrations.
- Sustained high availability on public-facing judicial platforms by administering the full LAMP stack, including cPanel configuration, MySQL tuning, automated backups, SSL, and security hardening.
- Improved page load times and moved Core Web Vitals into the "Good" threshold by refactoring legacy themes, optimizing assets, and implementing server-side caching.
- Cut build time for new institutional pages by designing a reusable Figma component library and translating it into standardized, reusable WordPress templates.
Founder and Lead WordPress Developer — Acheme (11/2019 – 10/2023)
- Delivered 150+ WordPress websites for institutional, e-commerce, and real-estate clients while running up to 35 projects concurrently, by building a reusable theme and component library.
- Achieved 90+ performance scores on PageSpeed Insights and GTmetrix across the client portfolio by optimizing image delivery, caching layers, and database queries.
- Connected client websites to CRM, ERP, and third-party platforms by developing custom REST API integrations, webhook handlers, and secure form workflows.
- Built the institutional website for Meta Globaltech, a Brazilian technology company with multiple registered patents, including a custom search-optimized news section and GA4 event tracking.
- Launched WooCommerce storefronts end to end, covering payment gateway integration, product catalog structure, and checkout customization.
- Protected client portfolios against downtime and data loss by managing domains, DNS, business email, hosting, SSL certificates, and scheduled backup routines.
Technical Support and Customer Success Agent — Hostinger International (04/2020 – 03/2021)
- Resolved WordPress, hosting, DNS, cPanel, and site migration issues for an international English-speaking customer base.
- Reduced repeat escalations by diagnosing recurring technical failures and authoring internal troubleshooting documentation adopted by the wider support team.
Core Skills
- WordPress: Custom plugin development, custom theme development, WordPress Plugin API, hooks and filters, actions, custom post types, custom taxonomies, ACF (Advanced Custom Fields), WooCommerce, Elementor, Gutenberg, page builders, WP-CLI, WordPress Multisite, WordPress coding standards, WordPress REST API
- Languages and Frameworks: PHP, PHP 8, OOP, MySQL, SQL, HTML5, CSS3, SASS, JavaScript, jQuery, JSON
- Integrations: REST API integration, third-party API integration, webhooks, Postman, API authentication, data mapping, AI and LLM API integration (OpenAI, Anthropic), workflow automation
- Design: UI design, UX design, Figma, Adobe XD, design systems, wireframing, prototyping, responsive design, mobile-first, accessibility, WCAG
- Infrastructure and Performance: LAMP stack, Linux server administration, cPanel, WHM, DNS, SSL, hosting, database optimization, automated backups, security hardening, site migration, Core Web Vitals, page speed optimization, technical SEO
- Tools and Analytics: Git, Google Analytics, GA4, Google Search Console, Google Tag Manager, Agile, cross-functional collaboration, client communication
Education
- Postgraduate Certificate, UX/UI and Digital Products — British School of Creative Arts and Technology (EBAC), 2024 – 2026 (expected)
- Bachelor of Business Administration — University of Brasília (UnB), 2017 – 2022
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