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Hi, I'm Valon Tufa, a full-stack developer and tech lead with 7+ years of experience building, optimizing, and scaling web applications across WordPress, Laravel, and modern JavaScript frameworks. I've led a cross-functional team of seven developers and managed 15-20 web properties for a major international iGaming client, delivering PageSpeed scores of 98-99 and reducing page load times by up to 75%. I diagnose cross-layer performance issues from backend queries and caching to frontend rendering and SEO, and I mentor engineers, conduct code reviews, and drive architectural decisions.…Hi, I'm Valon Tufa, a full-stack developer and tech lead with 7+ years of experience building, optimizing, and scaling web applications across WordPress, Laravel, and modern JavaScript frameworks. I've led a cross-functional team of seven developers and managed 15-20 web properties for a major international iGaming client, delivering PageSpeed scores of 98-99 and reducing page load times by up to 75%. I diagnose cross-layer performance issues from backend queries and caching to frontend rendering and SEO, and I mentor engineers, conduct code reviews, and drive architectural decisions.

Valon Tufa

Full Stack Developer, Web Developer, Back-End Developer, +2

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Hi, I'm Valon Tufa, a full-stack developer and tech lead with 7+ years of experience building, optimizing, and scaling web applications across WordPress, Laravel, and modern JavaScript frameworks. I've led a cross-functional team of seven developers and managed 15-20 web properties for a major international iGaming client, delivering PageSpeed scores of 98-99 and reducing page load times by up to 75%. I diagnose cross-layer performance issues from backend queries and caching to frontend rendering and SEO, and I mentor engineers, conduct code reviews, and drive architectural decisions.…Hi, I'm Valon Tufa, a full-stack developer and tech lead with 7+ years of experience building, optimizing, and scaling web applications across WordPress, Laravel, and modern JavaScript frameworks. I've led a cross-functional team of seven developers and managed 15-20 web properties for a major international iGaming client, delivering PageSpeed scores of 98-99 and reducing page load times by up to 75%. I diagnose cross-layer performance issues from backend queries and caching to frontend rendering and SEO, and I mentor engineers, conduct code reviews, and drive architectural decisions.

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Hi, I’m Valon Tufa, a full-stack developer and tech lead with 7+ years of experience building, optimizing, and scaling web applications across WordPress, Laravel, and modern JavaScript frameworks.

I’ve led a cross-functional team of seven developers and managed 15-20 web properties for a major international iGaming client, delivering PageSpeed scores of 98-99 and reducing page load times by up to 75%. I diagnose cross-layer performance issues from backend queries and caching to frontend rendering and SEO, and I mentor engineers, conduct code reviews, and drive architectural decisions.

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Albanian

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Work Experience

Tech Lead / Senior Full Stack Developer at Starlabs

August 1, 2019 - Present

Led a cross-functional team of 7 developers across multiple web properties for a major international iGaming client, delivering high-availability WordPress sites and Laravel-based microservices. Established code review and mentoring practices, improving code quality and reducing production bugs. Drove performance and SEO initiatives—PageSpeed 98-99, LCP reduced from 4-5s to 1-2s, caching with WP Rocket, and optimized MySQL queries (30-40% faster). Resolved Core Web Vitals bottlenecks (cookie popup LCP, render-blocking CSS). Built and maintained 15-20 WordPress sites with modular themes and ACF; implemented SEO-friendly structured data across sites and XenForo forums. Implemented REST APIs for cross-platform data exchange, integrated third-party services, and managed a scalable affiliate link system with SEO attributes. Migrated legacy properties to reusable theme architecture, reducing maintenance overhead.

Junior Software Engineer at Dynamic Spheres LLC

March 1, 2018 - September 1, 2019

Developed web applications using .NET Framework Web Forms and WordPress. Worked with REST and SOAP APIs for system integrations and external data exchange. Designed databases and wrote stored procedures for data processing and reporting.

Lecturer at Qendra per Zhvillimin te Karrieres

March 1, 2019 - April 1, 2019

Delivered lectures on ASP.NET Web Forms, Entity Framework, and CRUD application development. Guided students through building functional web applications with Telerik UI components and database connectivity.

Computer Science Lecturer at Qendra per Zhvillimin te Karrieres

March 1, 2019 - April 1, 2019

Delivered lectures on ASP.NET Web Forms, Entity Framework, and CRUD application development; guided students through building functional web applications with Telerik UI components and database connectivity.