Shopify VA & Store Specialist

Stores that work while you sleep.

Two years inside Shopify's technical merchant support. Now freelance: theme work, catalog data, daily operations, speed and search, for founders who'd rather be selling.

2 yrsInside Shopify
2 storesBuilt from scratch
GMT+8Olongapo, PH
RetainerOr project
jshmdevera@gmail.com +63 976 148 2996 Olongapo City, Philippines Book a free consult
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What I do

Take one lane or hand over the whole store. Most people start with an audit and move to a monthly retainer.

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Theme & store build

Full storefronts from an empty admin, or precise edits to the theme you already run. Written into the theme in Liquid, not bolted on with another app.

LiquidHorizonOS 2.0PageFly
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Catalog & product data

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

MatrixifyMetafieldsMetaobjects
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Daily store operations

Orders, inventory levels, refunds and the customer inbox. The unglamorous daily work that keeps a store trustworthy.

OrdersInventoryInbox
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Speed & Core Web Vitals

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

LCPINPCLS
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SEO & AI search visibility

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

JSON-LDAEOGEO
06

Automation & integrations

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

Shopify FlowManyChatCheckout
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Selected work

Real client stores rather than template mockups.

Full build · Horizon theme
TASTE CULINARY FOOD

Taste Culinary Food

A Philippine café-ingredient distributor moving off the shop floor and onto Shopify. 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 & audits
ADAHLIA BOUTIQUE

Adahlia Boutique

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

Theme devGit deployDesign systemAudits
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Client name · Company
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How it goes

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 & 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.

STEP 03

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

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.

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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, and it's almost never where the owner thinks it is. 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 discipline and inbox tolerance come from. I studied Information Technology at Gordon College in Olongapo City, where I still work from.

Shopify AdminLiquidJavaScriptHTML / CSSMatrixifyShopify FlowMetafieldsMetaobjectsSearch & DiscoveryPageFlyManyChatCore Web VitalsJSON-LDClaude Code
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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