About me
Ivan
Tabalno
Shopify Developer
& Software Engineer
I build Shopify storefronts around the way a business sells and its customers shop. My focus is reusable theme architecture, responsive interfaces, and practical features that are easy to maintain.
- Experience
- 2 years of professional experience
- Based in
- Philippines
- Working with
- Working remotely with clients worldwide
For the storefront.
And what comes next.
Services
Responsive Online Store 2.0 themes, with Liquid sections, reusable components, JSON templates and metafields. Figma layouts translated into a storefront your team can maintain.
Product discovery, quick add, AJAX cart interactions and app storefront customization that fit the way your customers shop. Native theme solutions where they make sense.
Clearer product pages and purchase interactions, alongside page-speed, Core Web Vitals and technical SEO improvements. A focused shopping experience that stays responsive and maintainable.
Products, variants, pricing, inventory data and media managed in Shopify Admin. Organized collections, tags, product types, vendors and metafields, with clear listing copy, product SEO and carefully checked bulk updates.
Scope GraphQL integrations and automation for catalog updates, bulk operations and repetitive store workflows, with validation and review before changes go live.
Focused Shopify app and admin-tool projects, shaped around a specific business workflow, its data and the integrations it needs.
Claude Code and Codex support planning, architecture, implementation and debugging. I review the code, make the technical decisions and check the result in the browser.
The process
Understand the work.
Care for the details.
Understand
Clarify the work and the theme’s starting point.
Build and review
Implement the changes and review AI-assisted code before deciding what stays.
Check in the browser
Check layouts, links, and interactions at computer and phone screen sizes.
Tools in my workflow.
View stackI use Claude Code and Codex for implementation, debugging, planning, and code explanations. I review the output, make the final decisions, and check the result in the browser.
Editing
VS Code / Cursor / Neovim / Antigravity / Ghostty / tmux
Code editing, terminals, and day-to-day implementation.
Shopify development
Shopify CLI
Local theme development and automated theme checks.
AI assistance
Claude Code / Codex / CodeRabbit
Planning, implementation, debugging, and code review.
Versioning and testing
Git / lazygit / GitHub / Playwright
Source control, with Playwright used through AI-assisted browser testing.
A role, a project, a conversation