experience
Remote Developer at Golden Dragon
Four months of remote technical support for the GD Star Rating WordPress plugin at Golden Dragon.
Remote Developer · Apr 2009 – Aug 2009 · ~4 mo
Overview
Remote developer at Golden Dragon in Niš, Serbia from April 2009 to August 2009. A four-month engagement providing technical support for the GD Star Rating WordPress plugin — helping users and maintainers with issues, fixes, and plugin behavior in production WordPress sites.
What I do here
Golden Dragon work focused on WordPress plugin support rather than greenfield product builds:
- Investigating and resolving technical support requests for the GD Star Rating plugin
- Diagnosing WordPress integration issues, configuration problems, and runtime behavior
- Applying fixes and improvements where the plugin needed maintenance or clarification
- Communicating findings and solutions remotely with the team and support workflow
Domains
Delivery sat in the WordPress ecosystem — a widely deployed rating plugin used on content sites that needed reliable behavior across themes, hosts, and WordPress versions. The role was support and maintenance oriented, with exposure to how popular plugins are operated and troubleshooted at scale.
How I work
- Support-first mindset — Clear reproduction, root-cause analysis, and practical fixes for reported issues
- Remote delivery — Effective work without co-location on a short, focused contract
- Plugin and platform context — Understanding how a WordPress plugin interacts with themes, hooks, and site configuration
- Timely turnaround — Short engagement with direct responsibility for keeping support moving
Technical focus
Platform: WordPress
Stack: PHP (WordPress plugin environment)
Product: GD Star Rating plugin — technical support