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Mikele
Shtembari
Senior Full-Stack Engineer

Certified Salesforce Commerce Cloud Developer B2C
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javascript php mysql sfcc b2c
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salesforce b2c developer sfra react next.js headless commerce PWA kit redis algolia contentful scss REST API AI integration performance optimization accessibility load testing codeigniter jquery css wordpress software design database MVC API JSON services SEO
Profile
Seasoned full-stack software engineer and certified Salesforce B2C Commerce Cloud Developer (SFCC, SFRA, PWA Kit / Headless Commerce) with over 10 years of experience building, optimizing, and integrating enterprise e-commerce and web platforms. I combine hands-on backend and front-end development with solution design, third-party integration, and performance engineering, and have served as lead developer and solution architect for small-to-medium-scale applications while working closely with CTOs and product managers.

Alongside delivery, I provide consulting on software development, implementation, optimization, and integration – analyzing client needs, designing tailored solutions, and overseeing development to ensure systems align with business objectives and industry best practices.

Current focus:
  • Building and optimizing e-commerce platforms on SFCC B2C with SFRA and headless PWA Kit
  • Designing and integrating third-party services (payments, search, CMS, OMS, analytics)
  • Leading development and producing technical & functional documentation
  • Performance, load testing, accessibility, and optimization
  • Integrating AI capabilities into customer-facing applications and CRM systems
  • Mentoring developers
  • Analyzing businesses and engineering the right solutions for their model
Domains delivered:
  • E-commerce, booking engines, custom CRM, CMS, and multi-website management, service integrations
Earlier achievements
  • Won 2nd place in Nation Olympiad in Informatics (Albania) (highschool).
  • Participated in International Olympiad in Informatics IOI.
  • Won 1st prize at Scientific Communication Session for students with a paper in Physics called "Guitar strings and sound waves" (University)
Work Experience
Oct 2022 - Current
Full-stack Software Engineer, Certified Salesforce B2C Commerce Cloud Developer
Bucharest
Full-stack engineer on enterprise e-commerce builds in Salesforce Commerce Cloud B2C (SFCC), spanning SFRA and headless commerce (PWA Kit). Backend and front-end development, data imports and job pipelines, services and API integrations, and Business Manager configuration. Performed optimization, load testing, and profiling, with a focus on UX, accessibility, and page-speed scores. For a major jewelry client, development and optimization work contributed to a 50% year-over-year increase in Black Friday sales. Coordinated directly with clients, centralizing technical and functional information across all parties. On headless builds, worked with React, Next.js, and TypeScript. Dealt with a broad range of third-party services, including Adyen, PayPal, Algolia, Contentful, Uniform, Redis, Channel Advisor, Pantheon (Drupal), Google Tag Manager, Piwik PRO, Loqate, Opal and many more. Mentored less-experienced developers. Technologies used: SFCC (server-side JavaScript), PWA Kit, React, Next.js, TypeScript, jQuery, SCSS/CSS, Business Manager.
2017 - Current
Software / Solution Engineer
@ Various
Remote
Provided software consulting and implementaion of development, optimization, and integration – analyzing client needs for their business, designing tailored solutions, and overseeing delivery to align systems with business objectives and best practices. Selected engagements:
  • Integrated AI into customer-facing and internal systems: a document-management platform helping customers organize materials for their projects; AI-assisted ticket handling within a custom CRM; and AI-driven chat over WhatsApp and other channels.
  • Built an official WhatsApp Business API integration into a custom CRM – messaging, media, broadcasting, marketing campaigns, and authentication – plus complementary services for group broadcasts and media collection.
  • Architected and built the entire web infrastructure for a long-standing client: interconnected web applications and third-party integrations, small-to-medium scale, PHP backend.
  • Delivered a PHP/Laravel application on AWS (EC2, S3, RDS).
  • Applied optimization techniques that raised Google PageSpeed scores to 99/100.
Nov 2020 - Sep 2022
Full-stack Software Engineer, Certified Salesforce B2C Commerce Cloud Developer
OSF Digital
Bucharest
Worked hands-on in software development and solution design for e-commerce platforms using proprietary software similar to Node.js for the backend, specifically within Salesforce Commerce Cloud B2C (SFCC) with SFRA. Contributed to both backend and frontend development. Additionally, participated in direct client discussions, leveraging my communication skills to their benefit. Mentored less experienced developers. Technologies used: Backend JavaScript (SFRA), jQuery, CSS, Business Manager.
Jan 2018 - Nov 2020
Software Engineer (full-stack) / Lead
@ Total Image Media
Bucharest
Worked closely with the CTO in a small local team for architecting solutions and software, and developing existing code, with focus on stability, security and performance, 3rd party integrations; maintaining and upgrading legacy code, as a lead developer / tech lead.
Technologies used the most were PHP, javascript, mysql, CSS. The most used framework was codeigniter. Used laravel in a few occasions and other custom MVC frameworks too. On the frontend jquery.
Our main site had to be perfect SEO-wise and optimized as much as possible. Put a lot of effort in the markup, reducing javascript, caching heavily, lazy-loading, UX etc.
Sep 2016 - Dec 2017
Web Developer
@ Freelance
Remote
Web developer with php, mysql, javascript, html, css, jQuery, wordpress + woocommerce, designing with photoshop, responsive design with CSS, ajax, bootstrap, a little laravel (mvc), API-s etc.
Sep 2016 - Jul 2017
Teaching Assistant
@ ICHB
Bucharest
Teaching assistant for both programming and IT classes. Technologies used include Scratch, C++, HTML, CSS, Office.
Oct 2015 - Sep 2016
Full-stack Web Developer
@ Lucian&Partners
Bucharest
Full stack web developer with php, mysql, javascript, html, css, jQuery, wordpress + woocommerce, designing with photoshop, responsive design with CSS.
Jul 2015 - Sep 2015
Web Developer Intern
@ Integrisoft Solutions
Bucharest
Web development internship using C#, .Net, JavaScript, Tsql.
Education
Computer Engineering Graduate
@ Automatica si Calculatoare, University Politehnica of Bucharest
Bachelor degree in computer engineering. Studies about data structures, parallel and distributed programming, algorithms, web programming, operating systems, programming paradigms, databases, hardware, electronics etc.
Other info
Spoken languages
English - Advanced
Romanian - Advanced (bilingual)
Italian - Advanced
Albanian - Native
Turkish - Basic
Hobbies
Dancing
Guitar
Basketball
 
 
For more information, for examples of my work, projects, any kind of question, or just to say hello, contact me.