Joshua De Vera Shopify Virtual Assistant & Store Specialist ● Two client slots open

Shopifywork,handled.

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 than sitting in the admin.

2Years inside Shopify
2Stores built from scratch
+8GMT · Olongapo, PH
02Client slots open
01 — Services

Six things,
done properly.

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

01

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.

LiquidHorizon / DawnOS 2.0 sections
02

Catalog & 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.

MatrixifyMetafieldsSearch & Discovery
03

Store operations

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

Order supportInventoryCustomer email
04

Speed

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
05

Search & AI

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

JSON-LDAEOGEO
06

Automation

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

Shopify FlowManyChatCheckout
02 — Selected work

Two stores,
start to finish.

Full build · Horizon theme

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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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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Ongoing · Theme & audit
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03 — About

Two years
on the inside.

JDJoshua De Vera · Olongapo City, PH

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 landed in 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 comes from. I studied Information Technology at Gordon College in Olongapo City, where I still work from.

I use Claude Code and AI-assisted workflows throughout, which makes turnaround faster than the rate would suggest. Everything I ship is documented, so you are never locked into me.

Shopify AdminLiquidJavaScriptHTML / CSSMatrixifyShopify FlowMetafieldsMetaobjectsSearch & DiscoveryPageFlyManyChatCore Web VitalsJSON-LD
04 — Contact

Tell me
what's stuck.

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.