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I'm Wayne Blake, a creative developer specializing in building engaging, data-driven websites with 9 years of experience across UI design, WordPress, PHP, and full-stack development. I enjoy turning complex ideas into practical, performant solutions and collaborating with teams to deliver high-quality digital products. I thrive in collaborative environments, value clear communication, and love learning new skills to solve challenging problems. I'm keen to adapt quickly and contribute to a team to deliver engaging, well-crafted websites.…I'm Wayne Blake, a creative developer specializing in building engaging, data-driven websites with 9 years of experience across UI design, WordPress, PHP, and full-stack development. I enjoy turning complex ideas into practical, performant solutions and collaborating with teams to deliver high-quality digital products. I thrive in collaborative environments, value clear communication, and love learning new skills to solve challenging problems. I'm keen to adapt quickly and contribute to a team to deliver engaging, well-crafted websites.

Wayne Blake

Web Developer, Front-End Developer, Back-End Developer, +2

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I'm Wayne Blake, a creative developer specializing in building engaging, data-driven websites with 9 years of experience across UI design, WordPress, PHP, and full-stack development. I enjoy turning complex ideas into practical, performant solutions and collaborating with teams to deliver high-quality digital products. I thrive in collaborative environments, value clear communication, and love learning new skills to solve challenging problems. I'm keen to adapt quickly and contribute to a team to deliver engaging, well-crafted websites.…I'm Wayne Blake, a creative developer specializing in building engaging, data-driven websites with 9 years of experience across UI design, WordPress, PHP, and full-stack development. I enjoy turning complex ideas into practical, performant solutions and collaborating with teams to deliver high-quality digital products. I thrive in collaborative environments, value clear communication, and love learning new skills to solve challenging problems. I'm keen to adapt quickly and contribute to a team to deliver engaging, well-crafted websites.

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I’m Wayne Blake, a creative developer specializing in building engaging, data-driven websites with 9 years of experience across UI design, WordPress, PHP, and full-stack development. I enjoy turning complex ideas into practical, performant solutions and collaborating with teams to deliver high-quality digital products.

I thrive in collaborative environments, value clear communication, and love learning new skills to solve challenging problems. I’m keen to adapt quickly and contribute to a team to deliver engaging, well-crafted websites.

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Work Experience

Web Developer at Jangro Ltd

September 1, 2024 - November 22, 2025

Maintain and build new features for internal data-driven dashboards and portals; integrate Git version control; bug fixing; back-end PHP and MySQL development; LAMP stack server administration; updating Agility PIM System and Sage integration into internal portals.

Freelance Developer at Self-employed / Freelance

September 1, 2024 - September 1, 2024

Worked with SMEs on UI design, site building with Elementor, developing WordPress themes using HTML, PHP, jQuery and SASS.

Frontend Developer at Payl8r

August 1, 2023 - August 1, 2023

Worked alongside the creative team to translate their vision into reality; built single-page HTML CRO sites; maintained and built new WordPress themes for company websites, using HTML, PHP, Bootstrap, jQuery and SASS.

WordPress Developer / Designer at Takepayments

May 1, 2022 - May 1, 2022

Built, setup and customization of merchants' web shops; supported defects in test/live systems; documented IT systems and processes; worked with the business to support the software lifecycle; contributed UI/UX concepts; developed features and themes using HTML, PHP, JQuery and SASS; modified behavior via WordPress hooks and filters.

Web Developer / Designer at The Artlab

March 1, 2021 - March 1, 2021

Built WordPress themes from boilerplate; created wireframe UI designs; server side maintenance; maintained WordPress site updates; worked with WooCommerce; simple Shopify modifications; created landing pages for CRO; developed themes using HTML, PHP, Bootstrap, JQuery and SASS; modifying behaviour via WordPress hooks and filters.

Web Developer / Designer at One Agency Digital

April 1, 2019 - April 1, 2019

Assisted with website builds using WordPress and Drupal; translated UI/UX design to code; implemented effective, responsive design; amended website content; implemented new features; managed CMS architecture; ensured high-performance and availability of CMS.

Web Designer / Developer at The GGR Group

June 1, 2018 - June 1, 2018

Maintenance of multiple websites on 3 dedicated servers; improve content, functionality and aesthetics of websites; creating design concepts for new templates; maintaining WordPress and Magento websites; updating online product pages, technical specs, galleries and videos; e-commerce maintenance for UK sites; upsell/cross-sell opportunities and customer segmentation; SEO keyword research.

Web Designer / Developer at Excel Publishing

December 1, 2014 - December 1, 2014

Created UI concepts and wireframes; storyboarding user journeys; researched trends; implemented new functions in online products; updated Drupal-based sites; created Drupal themes; analyzed web traffic with Google Analytics; supported e-marketing and e-newsletters; assisted with print production when possible.