Shopify VA · Store specialist · GMT+8

Your store, run properly, without another hire.

Two years inside Shopify's technical merchant support. Now freelance, doing the theme work, the catalog work and the daily ops for founders who'd rather be selling.

Taking 2 clients
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Joshua De Vera

Olongapo City, Philippines. Works across US, UK and AU hours.

Inside Shopify
2 yrs

Technical merchant support, front line for merchants worldwide.

Stores built
2

Full storefronts, from empty admin to live and taking orders.

Engagement
Retainer

Or project-based. Monthly retainers get priority turnaround.

What I do

Six things, done properly.

Take one lane or hand over the whole store. Most people start with an audit.

Ask about a custom scope
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Store build & theme work

Full storefronts from scratch or precise edits to the theme you already run. Written in Liquid, not stacked on with another app.

LiquidHorizonOS 2.0
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Catalog & metafields

Bulk imports, variant clean-up and structured product data for brand, format and origin, plus the filters that sit on top.

MatrixifyMetaobjectsFilters
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Daily store operations

Orders, inventory, refunds, customer email. The unglamorous work that keeps a store trustworthy day to day.

OrdersInventoryInbox
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Speed & Core Web Vitals

Find what's actually slowing the page, then fix it in the theme. Images, blocking scripts, layout shift, apps quietly costing conversions.

LCPINPCLS
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SEO & AI visibility

On-page SEO plus the newer job: getting cited by AI Overviews, ChatGPT and Perplexity. Schema, structure, copy written for humans.

JSON-LDAEOGEO
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Automation & integrations

Shopify Flow for the repeat work, gateways and checkout configured properly, apps wired to talk to each other.

FlowManyChatCheckout
Selected work

Two stores, start to finish.

Real client builds. No template mockups.

Full build · Horizon

Taste Culinary Food

A Philippine café-ingredient distributor moving off the shop floor and onto Shopify. Built from scratch: custom Liquid templates, brand pages for Catcher Gourmet, Toschi and Cafetto, payment gateways and checkout, metafields for product attributes, and a browser-based inventory reconciliation tool.

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Ongoing · Theme & audit

Adahlia Boutique

UK modern-luxury womenswear. Ongoing theme development and a rolling audit programme through a GitHub-connected deploy pipeline, holding a Fraunces and Inter design system together across every section of the storefront.

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The stack
Shopify AdminLiquidJavaScriptHTML / CSSMatrixifyShopify FlowMetafieldsMetaobjectsSearch & DiscoveryPageFlyManyChatCore Web VitalsJSON-LD schemaClaude Code
How it goes

Four steps, no mystery.

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

Audit & scope

I go through the store properly and come back with a written list, ordered by what will actually move revenue, with a price against each.

STEP 03

Build

Work happens on a staging copy where possible. You get progress as it lands, not a silent month followed by a surprise.

STEP 04

Hand over or stay on

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

Free 30-minute consult

Tell me what's stuck.

Bring the store URL and the problem. Worst case you leave with a straight answer and a plan you could hand to anyone.