WORDPRESS ENGINEERING — PLUGINS, INTEGRATIONS, PERFORMANCE, SECURITY

WordPress Engineer for complex, production systems

I build and stabilise WordPress/WooCommerce platforms where reliability and maintainability matter — payments, APIs, data pipelines, performance work, and incident-driven debugging.

WordPress Engineering

End-to-end WordPress development focused on backend logic, integrations, and long-term maintainability.

Custom plugins & business logic

  • Domain-specific workflows, admin tooling, custom data models

  • CPTs/taxonomies at scale, complex relationships

  • Clean, testable PHP with predictable behaviour in production

  • Incremental refactors without breaking the system

Integrations & APIs

  • Custom REST endpoints, auth, signatures, idempotency

  • PSP/CRM/LMS integrations, webhooks, async flows

  • Bidirectional sync and reconciliation strategies

  • Node/Python helpers when WP isn’t the right runtime

Performance & scalability

  • Profiling bottlenecks: queries, autoload, hooks, templates

  • Caching strategy: object cache, page cache, CDN awareness

  • Database structure + indexes for real workloads

  • High-traffic and large dataset tuning

Security & reliability

  • Hardening admin + endpoints, capability design

  • Safe input handling, validation, rate-limits

  • Payment and sensitive-data flows (least privilege)

  • Production incident response and root-cause analysis

Legacy rescue & complex rebuilds

  • Taking over large WordPress codebases

  • Refactoring without feature regression

  • Reducing operational risk with small, safe steps

  • Making “tribal knowledge” explicit (docs/runbooks)

Tooling & workflow

  • Git workflows, code reviews, release discipline

  • Debugging via logs/metrics, reproducible steps

  • WP-CLI, cron/background jobs, task queues

  • AWS/Cloudflare and production-grade environments

I’m usually brought into projects where WordPress goes beyond standard themes and plugins.

EXPERIENCE IN INTERNAL TEAMS AND INDEPENDENT PROJECTS

Trusted in internal teams and product environments — from fast-moving agencies to long-running platforms.

FOR RECRUITERS

Recruiter snapshot

Key facts for fast screening — focus, strengths, stack, and links.

Highlights

  • Focus: WordPress/WooCommerce engineering — plugins, integrations, performance, security.
  • Work style: ownership, clear communication, production discipline.
  • Strengths: debugging, refactoring, API design, webhook-first payment flows.
  • Location: remote — UK time overlap.
  • Availability: 2–4 weeks notice (can vary by project).

What you get

  • Production-first delivery: predictable behaviour, safe rollouts, clear failure handling.
  • Maintainable code: readable structure, minimal magic, pragmatic abstractions.
  • Handover-ready: documentation, short runbooks, and a clear next-steps plan.

Stack

PHP WordPress WooCommerce Node.js ACF Elementor

Backend

MySQL Redis REST APIs Webhooks AJAX Custom Plugins Payment Integrations

Frontend

JavaScript HTML/CSS jQuery Responsive UI

Ops

Cloudflare AWS Nginx CI/CD Apache Docker Linux/SSH Git

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