Record · 2002 – 2026
Service record
John Barbagallo. Web systems developer: WordPress operations, hosting and integrations, through to browser-based applications. Palm Bay, Florida · Melbourne area; remote-friendly; taking contract work.
Roles
Service record · 9 roles · 2002 – 2026 · newest first
Showing 9 of 9 roles
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2026 – present
Premium apparel brand; storefront built and operated end to end on WooCommerce.
Web WordPress · WooCommerce · Elementor · …
- WordPress + WooCommerce + Elementor storefront, live with Drop 001 on sale
- Hand-finished engraving artwork; brand kept deliberately small
StackWordPress · WooCommerce · Elementor · PHP
LinksCase study · warspur.com
Period2026 – present (now)
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2025 – present
Privacy-first CSV and Excel toolkit that runs entirely in the browser.
Web TypeScript · React / Next.js · Web Workers · …
- 27 browser-based tools that stream files through Web Workers; the file never leaves the machine
- No upload endpoint exists by design: zero data egress, zero server-side processing cost
- Free tier of 25 operations per month; Business tier for larger files
StackTypeScript · React / Next.js · Web Workers · Streams
LinksCase study · splitforge.app
Period2025 – present (now)
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2025 – present
Website care, local visibility and managed call intake for established service businesses.
Web Astro · TypeScript · Cloudflare · …
- Three flat-fee plans with a client login that shows the work completed
- Site built on Astro with self-hosted fonts, fronted by Cloudflare
StackAstro · TypeScript · Cloudflare · WordPress hosting
Period2025 – present (now)
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2022 – 2025
Sole owner of 30+ production WordPress sites and the Linux/Plesk servers under them for a national treatment network that lived on phone calls. Site count is my own account; client publication approval pending.
Web WordPress · PHP / MySQL · Linux · …
- Stood up a dedicated Linux/Plesk cloud server; standardised SSL, backups and caching across every property
- Led rebuilds of the flagship sites
- Wired Salesforce and CallTrackingMetrics so marketing could attribute every call to a page
- Ran sites and servers alone for three and a half years through redesigns, campaigns and outages
StackWordPress · PHP / MySQL · Linux · Plesk · Salesforce · CallTrackingMetrics · DNS / SSL
LinksCase study
Period2022 – 2025
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2019 – 2022
Agency pace, real deadlines. Client WordPress builds.
Web WordPress · PHP · Elementor · …
No further detail published for this role.
StackWordPress · PHP · Elementor · Custom themes
Period2019 – 2022
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2016 – 2018
Before code, hung wire.
Trades
No further detail published for this role.
Period2016 – 2018
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2013 – 2016
Climbing steel, hanging antennas.
Trades
No further detail published for this role.
Period2013 – 2016
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2012 – 2013
Alkylation unit.
Trades
No further detail published for this role.
Period2012 – 2013
- 2009 – 2012 No entry on the record for this span. Shown, not hidden.
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2002 – 2009
Transport security. Two Iraq deployments.
Service
No further detail published for this role.
Period2002 – 2009
Skills
Grouped the way the work groups. Years come from the roles above, not from a self-assessment.
Platforms
- WordPress
- WooCommerce
- Elementor
- PHP / MySQL
Hosting and operations
- Linux
- Plesk
- DNS / SSL
- Backups and migrations
- Git
Integrations and measurement
- Salesforce
- CallTrackingMetrics
- REST APIs
- GA4 / Tag Manager
- Schema
Application build
- JavaScript / TypeScript
- React / Next.js
- Web Workers
- Astro
About
Army sergeant, former utility lineman apprentice, then web systems: professional WordPress work since 2019 and the Linux servers under it since 2022. Founder of SplitForge. Taking contract work.
Currently: founder, builder at WARSPUR; founder, sole developer at SplitForge; founder at Barbagallo Digital.
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- Business services
- Barbagallo Digital