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Top 16 Wix Experts for Hire

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From co-founders who still write code, to open-source contributors building testing frameworks, to YouTubers teaching Velo and Editor X, Wix’s ecosystem is powered by talent that spans technical leadership, creative design, and community mentorship.

Below is a fresh, ranked list of the most influential Wix experts, selected for their impact across development, education, innovation, and community growth:

  1. Avishai Abrahami
  2. Yoav Abrahami
  3. Anthony Johnson
  4. Nayeli Gomez
  5. Aviran Mordo
  6. Angelo Sotira
  7. Craig Hausman
  8. Natan Silnitsky
  9. Josef Elias
  10. Eitan Waxman
  11. Hila Fish
  12. Yisrael Hersch
  13. Ryan Shafer
  14. Kate Bradshaw
  15. Sukumar Swain
  16. Quentin Plomteux

Now, let’s dive into their background and why they stand out:

Avishai Abrahami

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Nationality: Israeli

Avishai is one of Wix’s original developers-turned-CEO, having co-founded the company in 2006.

He still guides Wix’s technical vision and dev-centric culture even as CEO. Wrote core parts of early Wix code; scaled the platform to 200M+ users; and champions integrating AI and modern dev tools into Wix products. As an active tech leader, he emphasizes collaboration and continuous learning among developers.

Yoav Abrahami

Yoav Abrahami - Top 16 Wix Experts for Hire

Nationality: Israeli

A brother to Avishai, Yoav helped build Wix from the ground up in 2006.

With 30+ years in tech, he is now the Chief Software Architect and leads Velo by Wix, the full-stack development platform. Yoav shaped Wix’s transformation from a simple website builder to an app development platform. He ensures developers have advanced capabilities (database, serverless functions, etc.) through Velo, and often shares insights on the future of web development. As a longtime coder, he remains deeply involved in solving complex problems and mentoring Wix’s engineering teams.

Anthony Johnson

Nationality: USA

Anthony is a rising star in the Wix developer scene who pivoted from real estate to “digital real estate.” In 2024 he took 2nd place in the official Wix Studio & Merge Dev Hackathon, out of 822 participants.

Anthony’s award-winning “Elevate” real estate template showcased a fully functional property listing system built on Wix Studio – including 3D virtual tours, custom lead forms, and dynamic content for agents. This project proved that Wix Studio can handle complex web app scenarios, and it impressed Wix’s expert judges. Anthony now sells this template commercially and shares Wix tips via his Allioo Studio blog, bridging knowledge from hackathons to everyday users.

His hackathon success story inspires other developers to build SaaS-style solutions on Wix.

Nayeli Gomez

Nationality: USA

Nayeli, known as Code Queen, is a renowned Wix expert and educator. Based in Kansas, she has built Wix sites since 2015 and earned the top-tier “Wix Legend” partner status. She was Wix Ambassador for Texas’s Rio Grande Valley (2017–2019) and won the 2021 Ada Lovelace Award (Software Engineer category).

As a developer, Nayeli creates sophisticated Wix solutions (member portals, dynamic directories, custom app integrations) and often rescues fellow Wix experts when they’re stuck. She’s perhaps best known for her Code Queen YouTube tutorials on Corvid/Velo, which have empowered thousands of users (her channel has ~9K subscribers). Nayeli also speaks at Wix events (WixCon 2018 & 2019) and mentors others – truly the “expert’s expert” at Wix.

Aviran Mordo

Aviran Mordo - Top 16 Wix Experts for Hire

Nationality: Israeli

Aviran is Wix’s Vice President of Engineering and a prominent advocate of Wix’s open-source and developer-first culture.

He has been with Wix for over a decade, guiding its tech strategy. Under Aviran’s leadership, Wix became an official React Native core contributor and partner, maintaining 30+ RN open-source projects (like Detox, RN Navigation) with over 48k GitHub stars. He has driven Wix to rank among top global OSS contributors and speaks often about scaling engineering organizations. Aviran’s influence ensures Wix engineers are empowered to innovate at scale.

Angelo Sotira

Nationality: American

Angelo co-founded DeviantArt in 2000 and, after Wix acquired DeviantArt in 2017, he joined Wix’s management team.

A tech entrepreneur from age 19, he now helps align Wix’s platform with the needs of millions of artists and creators. Since joining Wix, Angelo has bridged Wix’s web development tools with DeviantArt’s massive creative community. He brings startup acumen and user-centric thinking, working on product development that empowers both developers and visual artists. His leadership helped launch Wix’s “DeviantArt at Wix” integration to give creators new ways to showcase and monetize art.

Craig Hausman

Nationality: British

Craig is a creative director who founded Hausman Graphics in Glasgow. Specializing in Wix web design and SEO, he gained notoriety when Wix Partners spotlighted him as an award-winning designer in 2022.

Craig has built hundreds of Wix sites for clients across the UK and beyond, from sleek corporate sites to vibrant portfolios. His hallmark is combining custom graphics with Wix’s platform to deliver unique brand experiences. In Wix’s Partner Awards series, Craig was praised for “blazing a trail” in web design with Wix’s newest tools. He often advises fellow designers in forums and local meetups, sharing SEO tips and design hacks for Editor X. Craig’s success demonstrates that with skill, Wix designers can achieve agency-level acclaim.

Natan Silnitsky

Natan Silnitsky - Top 16 Wix Experts for Hire

Nationality: Israeli

Natan is a senior backend engineer on Wix’s data streaming team.

He leads development of Greyhound, Wix’s open-source high-performance Kafka client library. Natan has helped Wix’s microservices scale to handling 5+ billion Kafka messages per day by creating tools like Greyhound. He developed internal platforms for tracing and debugging event streams across 2,000+ microservices, dramatically reducing incident resolution time. Natan shares his event-driven architecture insights at conferences (e.g. Kafka Summit) and via Wix Engineering blog posts on topics like leader election and multi-cluster Kafka management.

Josef Elias

Nationality: Swedish

Josef is the founder of Wiklex, one of Sweden’s premier Wix agencies, established in 2010. With a background in account management, he combined business and coding skills to deliver advanced Wix solutions for Scandinavian clients.

As a Velo Certified agency leader, Josef has overseen development of complex web applications on Wix – from custom booking and membership systems to multi-language eCommerce sites. His team’s motto “the sky is the limit” on Wix reflects their success integrating external databases and APIs with Wix’s platform. In 2022, Josef’s agency was honored by Wix for excellence in web development. He actively shares insights on using Wix for professional-grade projects, helping elevate Wix’s reputation in the broader web dev community.

Eitan Waxman

Wix isn’t just for beginners – it’s a real dev platform if you know where to look.

Nationality: American

Eitan is the founder of The Wix Wiz, a fast-growing community for Wix enthusiasts.

Based in New York, he runs a Wix-focused YouTube channel with over 5,000 subscribers and a lively Discord/LinkedIn group. Eitan produces weekly content demystifying advanced Wix and Editor X techniques. His “What the Wix?!” series and live AMAs help entrepreneurs and developers get unstuck on Wix problems. In 2024, he celebrated one of his tutorial videos breaking 100,000 views – a testament to its value for the community.

Eitan also builds templates and apps (via his agency Wiz Web Services LLC), but it’s his educational impact that shines: he lowers the barrier to entry for learning Velo and Wix Studio.

Hila Fish

Hila Fish - Top 16 Wix Experts for Hire

Nationality: Israeli

Hila is a DevOps specialist with 15+ years in tech. At Wix, she focuses on infrastructure automation and reliability.

She’s also a global DevOps speaker, AWS Community Builder, and HashiCorp Ambassador. Hila enhances Wix’s deployment pipelines and cloud scalability. She’s implemented best practices for infrastructure-as-code (e.g. Terraform) and incident management at Wix. Passionate about DevOps culture, she mentors teams internally and co-organizes DevOpsDays TLV. Hila often shares her expertise in webinars and podcasts – from security in CI/CD to tips on evaluating open-source tools for DevOps.

Yisrael Hersch

Nationality: Israeli

Yisrael is a veteran web developer at Wix.

He’s achieved “Brewmaster” status on the Wix Velo community, with over 4 years of forum leadership and ~600+ followers. Yisrael is the go-to expert in Wix’s developer forum, answering hundreds of coding questions and publishing code examples. He’s known for exhaustive knowledge of Velo APIs and for helping users debug complex issues in real-time. His willingness to assist peers earned him a legendary reputation (even among Wix staff).

Fun fact: He joined Wix in 2017 and humorously notes he “doesn’t own a necktie” – embodying Wix’s quirky dev culture.

Ryan Shafer

Nationality: American

Ryan is a top Wix web designer and the creator of Wix Fix, a YouTube channel dedicated to Wix Studio and Editor X tutorials.

He started Wix Fix to teach himself Wix, and others quickly found value in his lessons. Ryan’s channel now boasts over 37,000 subscribers and features hundreds of videos covering pro design tips, advanced CMS (database) usage, and custom code for Wix. Some popular videos include “Learn Wix Studio in 50 Minutes” and unique effects implementations – reflecting his knack for simplifying complex tasks. Ryan is also a Wix Partner who designs premium templates (earning him top 5% Wix Studio Designer status). His work helps designers build beautiful, modern Wix sites faster.

Kate Bradshaw

Kate Bradshaw - Top 16 Wix Experts for Hire

Nationality: Australian

Kate is a veteran Wix designer and the Wix Ambassador for Sydney, Australia.

With a background in psychology and 10+ years running her agency WebToday, she mentors other Wix Partners in design and user experience. Known for her typography and design excellence, Kate has completed over 230 Wix projects and earned a 5★ rating in the Wix Marketplace. As a Wix Partner Community Leader, she provides guidance to newer Wix designers and has spoken at global Wix events. Kate’s agency won a Wix Partner Award in 2022 for outstanding work, highlighting her sophisticated use of Velo and SEO in client sites.

She’s passionate about blending beautiful design with smooth functionality on Wix.

Sukumar Swain

Nationality: Indian

Sukumar is a software developer who burst onto the Wix scene by winning the “Team Kalinga” project category in Wix’s 2024 hackathon.

He created an EduTech platform template on Wix that impressed judges with its community features. Sukumar’s “Digital College” template (live demo on Wix Studio) supports courses, certificates, student chats, and more – all implemented with Velo code and clever use of Wix’s CMS. By sharing a detailed blog post about this project’s architecture, he provided a blueprint for others to build complex educational apps on Wix. Sukumar continues to contribute tutorials on his personal blog, exploring advanced Wix concepts like MasterPage.js state management and multi-step forms.

He represents a new wave of developers extending Wix far beyond drag-and-drop sites.

Quentin Plomteux

Nationality: Belgian

Quentin leads Code Enhancement Studio, a development agency specializing in Velo coding and custom Wix apps​. His team won 1st place in Wix’s 2024 Dev Hackathon with a “Gift Registry” Blocks app, demonstrating exceptional skill in extending Wix Stores.

Quentin’s agency has pushed Wix’s boundaries by building complex prototypes and tools – from multi-step checkout customizations to integrations with external APIs (e.g., for real-time shipping rates)​. The Gift Registry app his team built allows Wix eCommerce users to offer shareable wishlists, a feature now in demand by many Wix store owners. Quentin also shares Velo tips on HackerNoon and the official Wix forum, helping other developers learn from his studio’s cutting-edge projects.

Wrap Up

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