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I take the Shopify work off your plate — properly.

Two years inside Shopify's technical merchant support, now freelance. Theme edits, product data, daily orders, the page speed problem you've been ignoring. One person, documented work, no lock-in.

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Start here if you're not sure what you need. Most people book the consult, I audit the store, and you get a written list of what I'd fix in order of impact, with a price against each item. No obligation to use me for any of it.
Experience2 yearsInside Shopify support
Stores built2 from scratchEmpty admin to live
Based inOlongapo, PHGMT+8 · US/UK/AU overlap
EngagementRetainerOr fixed-scope project

# Services

Expand any one to see what's actually included. Take a single lane or hand over the whole storefront.

▶Theme & store buildMost requested

Full storefronts from an empty admin, or precise edits to the theme you already run. Everything written into the theme in Liquid rather than bolted on with another app, so it stays fast and stays yours.

  • Liquid templates
  • Custom sections
  • Horizon / Dawn
  • OS 2.0
  • Landing pages
  • PageFly
▶Catalog, metafields & product data

Product data that holds up as you grow. Bulk imports, variant clean-up, structured attributes for brand, format and origin, plus the collections and filters that sit on top of them.

  • Matrixify
  • Metafields
  • Metaobjects
  • Search & Discovery
  • Collections
▶Daily store operations

Orders, inventory levels, refunds and the customer inbox. The unglamorous daily work that keeps a store trustworthy, handled before you open the admin.

  • Order support
  • Refunds
  • Inventory
  • Customer email
▶Speed & Core Web Vitals

Find what's genuinely slowing the storefront down, then fix it in the theme. Images, render-blocking scripts, layout shift, and the apps quietly costing you conversions.

  • LCP
  • INP
  • CLS
  • Image audit
  • App reduction
▶SEO & AI search visibility2026 focus

On-page SEO plus the newer job: being the store that AI Overviews, ChatGPT and Perplexity actually cite. Schema, clean structure, and copy written for humans first.

  • JSON-LD schema
  • AEO
  • GEO
  • Collection strategy
  • Product copy
▶Automation & integrations

Shopify Flow for the repetitive work, payment gateways and checkout configured properly, and third-party apps wired so they talk to each other instead of past each other.

  • Shopify Flow
  • ManyChat
  • Checkout config
  • Payment gateways

# Selected work

Real client stores rather than template mockups.

Full build · Horizon theme

Taste Culinary Food

A Philippine café-ingredient distributor moving from a physical shop to a proper storefront. Built from an empty admin: custom Liquid templates across product, collection and landing pages, brand pages for Catcher Gourmet, Toschi and Cafetto, payment gateways and checkout configured, metafields structuring every product attribute, and a browser-based inventory reconciliation tool built in JavaScript.

LiquidMetafieldsMatrixifyShopify FlowCheckout
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Ongoing · Theme & audit programme

Adahlia Boutique

A UK modern-luxury womenswear label. Ongoing theme development and a rolling audit programme delivered through a GitHub-connected deploy pipeline, holding a single design system consistent across every section of the storefront while the catalogue keeps changing beneath it.

Theme devGit deployDesign systemAudits
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# How I work

Step 01 · Free

Consult

Thirty minutes. You show me the store and the thing that's been annoying you. I tell you honestly whether it's worth paying someone to fix.

Step 02 · 2–3 days

Audit & written scope

I go through the store properly and come back with a list ordered by what will actually move revenue, with a price against each item. You can hand that list to anyone.

Step 03 · Agreed timeline

Build

Work happens on a staging copy wherever possible. You see progress as it ships, not a silent month followed by a surprise.

Step 04 · Your call

Hand over or stay on

Documented and handed back, or I stay on a monthly retainer and keep running it. No lock-in either way.

# About

From April 2024 to April 2026 I worked inside Shopify as technical merchant support, front line for merchants worldwide. Themes, apps, payments, checkout, DNS, domains, gateway failures. When something broke, it came to my queue.

That job taught me where stores actually break, which is almost never where the owner thinks. Now I do the fixing directly, freelance, for founders and small teams who need someone who can read Liquid and answer a customer email in the same afternoon.

Before Shopify I spent two years in high-volume data processing and a year coordinating patient care, which is where the catalog and inbox discipline comes from. I studied Information Technology at Gordon College in Olongapo City, where I still work from.

# Tools & stack

Shopify
AdminLiquidOS 2.0 sectionsMetafieldsMetaobjectsSearch & DiscoveryShopify FlowCheckout
Development
JavaScriptHTMLCSSGitCore Web VitalsJSON-LD schema
Apps & tooling
MatrixifyPageFlyManyChat
Ways of working
Claude CodeAI-assisted workflowsWritten documentationAsync updates

Tell me what's stuck.

A free 30-minute consult. Bring the store URL and whatever's been annoying you. Worst case you leave with a straight answer and a plan you could hand to anyone.

© 2026 Joshua De Vera · Shopify VA & Store Specialist · Olongapo City, Philippines