Saif has been working as a web developer since 2011 and is passionate about his work using WordPress and PHP. He is a WordPress.org certified theme author, plugin developer, and theme reviewer. Saif has also had the opportunity to teach web design and development to graduate and post-graduate students for more than four years.
Recruited and trained an entire technology department (front-end developers, back-end developers, UI/UX designers, mobile app developers, and QA engineers).
Worked closely with management to ensure proper requirement analysis and smooth communication between tech and business.
Developed industry-first solutions and systems, including automation of WordPress admin tasks.
Planned and built microservices based on project requirements to ensure the best performance while keeping server costs low.
Managed server and hosting platform and negotiated with the provider.
Developed SOPs for a newly built tech team to ensure consistency and performance.
Trained non-tech customer support agents and call center personnel to provide the best care to clients related to tech issues.
Ensured inter-department communication and collaboration by maintaining proper communication channels.
Planned, led, and managed projects using Agile methodology.
Edited WordPress sites that are created by others.
Fixed WordPress issues that are caused by others.
Created a few rare WordPress functions.
Transferred large and faulty sites across hosting providers, which seemed impossible by others.
Improving page load time drastically, for numerous times.
JavaScriptHTML5CSS3PHPWordPressElementorSearch Engine Optimization (SEO)
WordPress ThemesWordPress Design
Landing Pages
FigmaGoDaddy
WordPress PluginsClient Portals
Web DevelopmentUser Management
CSSHTMLWooCommerceWordPress Theme Design
WooCommerce API
WooCommerce Subscriptions 2
WordPress API
eCommerce
Plugin Development
WordPress Optimization
Headless Commerce
User Experience (UX)
Web DesignResponsive Web Design (RWD)
Design
Web UI
Web UX
Payment Gateways
HTML UI
StripeCAPTCHA
Stripe API
Full-stack
APIsPayment APIs
Single Sign-on (SSO)
MySQLGoogle AnalyticsMembership Sites
HubspotHubSpot CRM
SQLHubSpot COS
HubSpot Marketing Hub
Front-end
Adobe
User Interface (UI)
Google SEO
Pixel Perfect
Websites
Seos
API IntegrationPlugins
Responsive
Subscriptions
Mobile Design
Total Online Solutions BD Ltd.
Senior WordPress Consultant
2016 - 2018 (2 years)
Remote
Created a detailed workflow for the entire development team.
Managed the complete process of recruiting and training new developers.
Improved the performance of existing project sites that were extremely slow and underperforming.
Created the guidelines for new and existing developers.
Resolved WordPress issues when needed and trained support engineers to troubleshoot efficiently.
Performed a performance check for their developers once every three months and decided whether their skills had improved or not. This helps them determine which developers to promote and which to let go of.
Taught a variety of courses for a variety of skill levels on various topics including basic web design, advanced front-end design, WordPress theme development, WordPress plugin development, basic PHP, and advanced PHP and MySQL.
Developed a complete membership system with raw PHP and integrated it with WordPress.
Built a custom shopping area and integrated it with WooCommerce.
Created a large one-page website with WordPress with a complete custom settings page for handling the full site (not a customizer, since the client doesn't want it).
Designed a quick-start pack for junior developers as a starting point for all their projects.
Worked with Instagram API and other APIs.
Integrated unknown payment gateways from different countries.
Created a site which required two language-based versions of everything, without any plugin or third-party language tools like WPML.
Developed hundreds of responsive websites, including sites where the view of the website remains exactly the same on all devices (no breakdowns or issues with readiness).
Created a variety of cross-platform and responsive email templates.
Converted some raw PHP sites to WordPress.
Transitioned many static sites to dynamic.
Added different WordPress features in many sites (e.g. ShortCodes, Custom Widgets, Custom Settings Page, etc.).
A complete WordPress-based LMS where learners can purchase memberships and view content based on their membership tiers. Unregistered users can see demo content, and registered free members can see specific lessons per the admin's decision.
This headless website uses Next.js on the front end developed by another developer and WordPress on the back end I built. I was in charge of the entire project and made all the necessary development decisions that led to an industry-first website for the client.
Training Express provides online training on various topics. While they do have a good number of individual customers, their main focus is business customers. Their site was built with a WPLMS theme, and they did not have the necessary tools to accommodate the needs of business clients. Therefore, I was tasked with developing a business dashboard for their clients. I developed it within a very short amount of time, and they have been able to focus their entire business toward B2B sales due to the implementation of the dashboard. This dashboard also has API integration methods through which anyone can sell courses from Training Express using their own websites. While it would require one to purchase a business package to access the business dashboard, a sneak peek is given in the video on the right side of the hero section on the linked page.
This is a headless WordPress site where online courses are sold individually as well as on a subscription basis. The back end was already built in WordPress but was very slow and underperforming. Even old APIs were very slow. Then I was brought into the project, and I developed the back-end APIs for seamless and swift integration with the front end while also improving the quality of the back end.
I created the theme in the early days of my WordPress career as a practice but never submitted or uploaded it anywhere. However, when I applied to become a theme reviewer, I thought about submitting at least one theme to become a theme author myself so that I could experience the review process as an author as well. So, I tweaked the theme a bit and uploaded it. It got approved, and it allowed me to learn a great deal about WordPress coding standards. This theme was also an experiment with CSS pseudo-classes, through which the posts and widgets get automatic colors depending on their position (hence the name "Colorbox" came to my mind). Though it does not have many options, it will always remain a good starting point for my WordPress career.
