Portfolio for Pete Rutkowski
The Grande Cheese website serves as a digital hub for both prospective customers and existing partners, with a strong focus on supporting restaurant owners and foodservice professionals. Beyond showcasing Grande’s product offerings, the site functions as a practical business tool—providing access to product details, usage inspiration, and operational resources tailored to the needs of pizzerias …
Workman Nydegger (wnlaw.com) is a leading intellectual property law firm. As Lead Developer on the project, I was responsible for guiding the technical direction, architecture, and implementation of a modern, scalable website aligned with the firm’s content and user experience needs. Architected and developed a custom WordPress solution leveraging Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) and custom …
True North is a WordPress-based event platform built to support Waystar’s True North conference. As the sole developer on a rapid-turnaround project, I led the end-to-end planning, architecture, and delivery of the site under tight timelines. Owned project scoping, technical planning, and site architecture, while leading client meetings to align on requirements, priorities, and overall …
Wright & Talisman is an Law Firm focus on energy sector businesses and litigation. I was approached to manage the redesign and transition from an old CMS platform to a WordPress based site. I was lead developer and worked with the stakeholders and designer to create an engaging user experience (UX) for site visitors. The …
Coinstar is a well known international brand with coin collection kiosks found in cities around the world. My role was to supervise with a team of junior developers to revamp Coinstar’s website to match their new branding roll-out. I worked on developing wireframes, the overall structure of the site, as well as back-end code necessary …
Easier With AT is a product of the Connecticut State Department of Education to help Connecticut residents access information related to tools, devices, supports, and services regarding Assistive Technology (AT). Because the site’s intended audience will be students, families and educators working with disabilities, the site’s development needed to pay close attention to being accessible …
The Hollingsworth LLP website was developed for a large law firm that specializes in class action lawsuits. My role on the project was to take over development after the client had become unhappy with their previous design agency’s progress. I worked closely with a project manager and a designer to revamp and modernize the website, …
The law firm of Gesmer Updegrove is a 50-lawyer intellectual property boutique. I worked with co-developer developer on this WordPress Gutenberg project, leveraging Git to manage our workflow for seamless parallel development. My role for this project was primarily front-end development. I focused on a mobile-first process to ensure that the site would be responsive …
The Institute for Justice needed to update their 10-year-old website built with WordPress classic. They needed to make their site more organized and easy to navigate for a wide range of company departments and special projects. Since the website is the primary tool they use for fundraising, it had numerous stakeholders with sometimes conflicting requirements. …
The Pearce Lewis website was developed for a small boutique law firm that specializes in class action lawsuits. On this project I was the sole developer and worked closely with the project manager and designer to create a cohesive design that would accentuate the firm’s services. I crafted the wireframes and site structure to be …
PennEd Today is resource for families residing in Pennsylvania looking education options that fit their child and enable their child to thrive. Working with a designer and project manager, I handled both the front-end and back-end code for this WordPress website. I consider this website to be a fairly typical website containing a collection of …
Value Ingenuity is a custom WordPress website built using the Twig/Timber framework, where I led both front-end and back-end development. The site leverages custom templates in combination with Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) to provide a flexible content management experience, allowing administrators to easily update content while preserving the site’s design integrity. Technologies Used Include WordPress …
The Center for Individual Rights is a very typical WordPress-based website for a non-profit public interest law firm. The website is coded on the Timber/Twig framework. I was responsible for the back-end development of the project with included setting up custom post types and importation of the former website’s database/content. The website uses Advanced Custom …
I worked on the TrinTech.com web project as part of a small team of three developers. The site was a massive project involving migrating content from a former Drupal-based website to a WordPress-based CMS. Our development team consisted of members in Romania, New York, and myself in Germany at the time. This necessitated clear communication …
Small Army is a design agency based in Boston, Massachusetts that was acquired by FINN Partners in 2017. Working with their in-house print designers I handed creating the back-end and front-end code necessary to take their static Photoshop mock-ups and convert them to responsive web templates. The site is built on WordPress classic and uses …
The Health Management Systems (HMS) website is a WordPress Classic site. I was responsible for the whole site development, both back-end, and front-end as well as client training. Much of the website’s structure uses fixed full-screen background images with responsive content, presenting unique challenges in making the site responsive for a variety of devices. Technologies …
Larkins Vacura Kayser is a small boutique law firm located in Portland, Oregon that was in need of improving its online presence to showcase the firm’s attorneys and services. It is a relatively straightforward website that manages to leverage impactful imagery and header taglines to create a visually beautiful website that feels very engaging. I …
Amylyx is a company that focuses on developing therapies for neurodegenerative disorders. They needed a website as a marketing tool as they were undergoing a second round of funding and they were launching a new therapy clinical trial. This was a brand new website so there was no need for data migration. I worked with …
The Hall Maines Lugrin website was built on the WordPress classic framework. I was the sole developer for this project and was responsible for the front-end and back-end development as well as the data migration from a former Drupal website. The site utilizes Advances Custom Fields and custom post types two create post-to-post relationships amongst …
The Berman Tabacco website was built on the WordPress classic framework. I was the sole developer for this project and was responsible for the front-end and back-end development as well as the data migration from a Drupal website. Working closely with the client I was able to field technical questions quickly and identify potential pitfalls …
Wenderoth is a law firm that wanted to migrate their website from Drupal to the WordPress platform. I was the the developer in charge of scoping the project, wireframing, and development of the code. The website is built on the WordPress classic and involved extensive SQL data manipulation to ensure the former Drupal site’s code …