Nikola Nikolov

Nikola Nikolov

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ABOUT ME
Experienced and enthusiastic WordPress developer. Founder and Lead Developer at Paiyak Development
Experienced and enthusiastic WordPress developer. Founder and Lead Developer at Paiyak Development

I learned programming basics in high school and after I graduated, I started with web development back in 2010. I did a one month internship at a local WordPress shop and then started working with them, building custom WordPress sites for their customers.

After a year and a few months, I felt like I could no longer grow much there due to the monotonous workload, lack of more challenging projects, and high throughput expectations, so I started freelancing. I knew WordPress fairly well, so I focused on that. After year or two of freelancing, I opened up my own company, where we focused on building custom WordPress solutions for customers.

The company never grew a lot due to my own shortcomings as a manager, but I did form a few friendships and managed to share some of my knowledge with my coworkers.

For the last 6 years I've been primarily working together with a SaaS company. Helping them develop and expand their software. That's where I got started with React and Laravel and I've gotten pretty comfortable with them. It's been quite a journey seeing the software grow a lot in terms of both complexity and userbase.

Overall I feel like I'm best suited to help you out with WordPress-related questions - so if you've got one of those, feel free to hit me up.
However, since I also have pretty decent experience with other technologies as well, I might have some useful nuggets of knowledge to share about non-WordPress questions. If you feel like I could be of help, just reach out and we'll flesh out some details to help us both understand if we're a good fit or not.

Bulgarian, English
Sofia (+03:00)
Joined March 2014
EXPERTISE
9 years experience | 20 endorsements
I've created a lot of WordPress-based sites(read 70+) - from simple blogs to complicated corporate websites. I have also developed multip...
I've created a lot of WordPress-based sites(read 70+) - from simple blogs to complicated corporate websites. I have also developed multiple plugins - both unique to a specific site and ones that can be used on any WordPress site. I started off as an intern in a local company - I had pretty much no previous experience with PHP or JavaScript(only minor with HTML and some with Visual Basic). The internship lasted for about a month after which I started working on real projects. My main task was to convert static HTML sites to WordPress-powered sites. I stayed in the company for about a year and 5 months after which I became a freelancer. I did that in order to be able to spend more time working on myself and exploring the world(since at my full-time job I used to stay after work hours to complete projects). I freelanced for about half a year and then moved to Turkey - with my at that time girlfriend - where I worked for two different companies, creating sites with WordPress and teaching some of their employees how to do the same. After about 10 months I went back to Bulgaria and returned to freelancing for another year and a half. The next step in my career path was to start a small company focused on creating custom WordPress solutions, which is what I've been doing ever since. In the mean time I got married to my girlfriend and we now have a son and a daughter :)
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REVIEWS FROM CLIENTS

5.0
(83 reviews)
Diogo Angelim
Diogo Angelim
October 2018
Nikola is a great mentor and developer! Now I feel ready to increase my code quality.
Al Avery
Al Avery
April 2018
Nikola was quick to understand what I needed help with and how to solve the issue. He has a friendly manner and happily explained how the solution works.
Ron Sun
Ron Sun
June 2017
Nikola was very helpful in developing a custom plugin in PHP for my Wordpress site.
Connor Lambert
Connor Lambert
April 2017
Very professional and knowledgeable, easy going and helpful. Always learn new things when watching him work.
Adam Lee Rosenfeld
Adam Lee Rosenfeld
April 2017
Nikola helped me with a project I did not know how to do. I contacted him after talking with multiple developers, he took the time to really listen and understand my needs. Then he provided an excellent solution, in a timely manner, and within a reasonable budget. It was great working with him!
Khary Reynolds
Khary Reynolds
December 2016
Awesome session.
Khary Reynolds
Khary Reynolds
December 2016
Another great session
Khary Reynolds
Khary Reynolds
December 2016
Awesome Session
Khary Reynolds
Khary Reynolds
December 2016
Awesome mentor!!
Khary Reynolds
Khary Reynolds
November 2016
Always able to solve my issues. Awesome mentor.
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Founder and Lead Developer
Paiyak Development
2014-11-01-Present
Running a small WordPress-focused agency, that delivers custom WordPress websites for a variety of clients. Also doing one on one WordPre...
Running a small WordPress-focused agency, that delivers custom WordPress websites for a variety of clients. Also doing one on one WordPress training sessions with people all over the world, varying from less tech-y people, to developers trying to solve a problem they're stuck on.
PHP
WordPress
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PHP
WordPress
Laravel
React
WordPress Custom Themes
JavaScript
PHP 7
Html 5 / css 3
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Web Developer
2Create Studio
2010-10-01-2012-03-01
Developed WordPress sites and plugins
Developed WordPress sites and plugins
PHP
WordPress
WordPress Custom Themes
PHP
WordPress
WordPress Custom Themes