Cristian Cascante

Independent senior engineer partnering with agencies and service businesses to build, stabilise and automate complex WordPress and WooCommerce platforms.

I specialise in custom plugins and themes, ACF, Gravity Forms, API integrations, payments, document generation, legacy migrations, performance optimisation and AI-assisted development workflows.

Available for freelance projects, white-label age

Led a phased zero-downtime migration from legacy page-builder layouts to a native ACF/Gutenberg architecture, running both systems in parallel until the legacy system was fully decommissioned.

Built and owned business-critical integrations for Gravity Forms, payments, file uploads, webcam capture and organisation portals within a regulated police-checking platform.

Audited legacy dependencies, i

Built custom WordPress themes, plugins and Gutenberg block systems for hospitality, corporate and multi-brand platforms.

Delivered responsive implementations from Figma, with a strong focus on performance, accessibility and long-term maintainability.

Integrated forms, analytics, CRM platforms and SaaS services across long-running production websites.
Collaborated with design, development and cli

Led the zero-downtime migration of a five-language WooCommerce platform from Divi to Gutenberg while preserving organic traffic and business continuity.

Managed more than 25,000 URLs and 50,000 redirects, resolving hreflang, duplicate-content, indexing and performance issues.

Improved Core Web Vitals to green and took ownership of WordPress architecture, development, technical SEO and production

Led WordPress delivery for multiple agency clients, covering technical estimates, architecture and development decisions.

Built custom themes, landing pages and campaign websites in collaboration with SEO, design, content and client teams.

Supported developers, reviewed implementations and helped ensure projects were delivered according to technical and business requirements.

Worked on web development projects for Mutua de Propietarios, contributing to different web applications and corporate websites built with WordPress and Laravel.

Developed and adapted front-end and back-end functionality according to the requirements of each project.

Developed bespoke WordPress websites, including web design, responsive front-end implementation and custom plugin development.

Quickly adapted to an unfamiliar codebase with limited documentation, reverse-engineered the existing implementation to introduce a new language across the platform, preserved existing functionality and documented the solution for future maintenance.

Led multimedia production across post-production, 3D graphics, web development, digital campaigns, online distribution and interactive projects.
Combined technical responsibility with creative production for television, music, cultural and branded-content projects.

Selected projects:

• MTV / San Miguel Primavera Sound Mag — Technical Lead, 2011
• TVE / Mapa Sonoro — Post-production, 2011
• Ba

Developed multimedia and web projects combining interactive applications, front-end development, post-production and 3D graphics.

Managed projects from technical implementation through to final delivery for different clients and production environments.