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With 9+ years of experience, I am a qualified Full Stack Web Developer. I am an inquisitive, talented, team-oriented personality who thinks beyond the box.

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Hi There, I am Abdur Rauf!

I am a seasoned Full Stack Developer with 9+ years of experience building fast, scalable, and user-friendly web applications. My expertise spans PHP, WordPress, Laravel, JavaScript frameworks, and modern frontend technologies, enabling me to contribute across the entire development lifecycle—from architecture and planning to deployment and optimization.

I’ve worked with high-traffic platforms, custom CMS solutions, and complex WordPress ecosystems, consistently delivering clean, maintainable code and intuitive user experiences. I enjoy collaborating with cross-functional teams, solving technical challenges, and continuously learning to stay aligned with evolving web standards and best practices.

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Senior PHP/WordPress Developer

Queen City Design

Remote / Contract

Jan 2025 - Sep 2025

  • Established Prototypes, designs, tests & maintained engaging mobile & web multitiered applications to meet challenging business needs.
  • Translated user requirements into clean, modern UI/UX designs & worked within a small development team to bring designs to fruition.
  • Provided time estimates & completed tasks in the Agile development environment.
  • Defined technical architecture, wrote & presented detailed design & technical system specifications, maintained documentation of projects.
  • Initiated modern user interfaces based on business needs & helped drive the evolution of current user interfaces to meet future business needs.
  • Actively engaged in technical discussions, shared ideas & furnished to cohesive development framework & coding standards.
  • Developed new user-facing features.
  • Designed & created user interfaces that reflect minimal effort for interaction & adoption, as evidenced in fidelity metrics designated for each project.
  • Built reusable code & libraries for future use.
  • Ensured the technical feasibility of UI & UX designs.
  • Optimized application for maximum speed & scalability.
  • Assured that all user input is validated before submitting to the back-end.
  • Offered design experience & design to both front-end & backend developers.

Sr. WordPress Full Stack

The Boston Globe

Remote

May 2022 - Dec 2024

  • Collaborated with STAT’s product, revenue, and editorial teams to design and implement new features for the STAT website, newsletters, mobile app, and virtual/live events.
  • Enhanced website functionality by developing WordPress themes and plugins while ensuring adherence to modern development best practices.
  • Worked in a fast-paced, Agile environment, participating in daily standups, code reviews, and two-week sprint cycles to deliver production-ready features.
  • Optimized high-traffic website performance and addressed frontend and backend issues using browser dev tools and PHP’s Xdebug.
  • Used PHP, MySQL and Linux on Vagrant/Docker for local WordPress development.
  • Leveraged JavaScript libraries and frameworks such as React, Vue.js, & jQuery for dynamic user experiences.
  • Integrated APIs like Stripe for payments and subscriptions, adhering to authentication standards such as OAuth 2.0.
  • Ensured high-quality software delivery by maintaining robust Gitbased version control practices.

WordPress Full Stack | Shopify | Laravel

Erwin Designs

Remote

Feb 2018 - April 2022

  • Spearheaded multi-stacked web development projects, collaborating closely with the design team to create and manage websites and web applications for clients.
  • Mostly worked in HTML5, CSS3 and SCSS, JavaScript (ES6+) on the frontend and on the backend used WordPress 6+, MySQL, WHM and cPanel.
  • Utilizing Adobe CC tools (Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Adobe XD) for seamless design integration.
  • Managing and optimizing WordPress websites, ensuring high performance and user experience.
  • Leveraging additional skills in Shopify, CodeIgniter, Laravel, jQuery, JSON, Git, GitHub and UX Design.
  • Active involvement in a collaborative, team-oriented environment, showcasing strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.

Sr. Laravel Developer

Cape & Bay

Remote

March 2016 - Jan 2018

  • Played a pivotal role while contributing comprehensive back-end and front-end skills to the software development lifecycle.
  • Successfully engaged in R&D, planning, feature implementation, bug resolution and code repository maintenance.
  • Specialized in Laravel, Vue, AWS, PostgreSQL / MySQL, Redis, Git and Segment technologies.
  • Applied strong problem-solving skills and wrote SOLID and DRY code, ensuring high quality software.
  • Actively participated in project discussions, collaborated with the creative team, and occasionally mentored junior developers.
  • Contributed to the development and maintenance of a variety of Laravel based applications.

Laravel & Vue Developer

Gramercy Tech

Remote

May 2015 - Jan 2016

  • Worked on the development of Eventfinity, a hybrid virtual events platform, utilizing Laravel, Vue, JavaScript/jQuery CSS, & HTML.
  • Played a crucial role as a Full Stack Laravel Developer, focusing on effective, reusable code and a solid understanding of design/UI/UX concepts.
  • Demonstrated expertise in Laravel 7 and higher, PHP, Vue, JavaScript/jQuery and responsive layout design.
  • Successfully collaborated with a team of experienced developers, project managers and clients to bring events to life within a custombuilt CMS.

services

Deliver scalable and high-performing software to fuel your business growth with top notch technologies, Bootstrap, UX|UI, React, WordPress, PHP, Laravel, Joomla and Technical Support.

Front-End
Development

Develop new user-facing features, determining the structure and design of web pages, building reusable codes, optimizing page loading times, and using a variety of markup languages to create the web pages.

Back-End
Development

In-depth understanding of the entire web development process (design, development and deployment). Write code and tests, build prototypes, resolve issues, and profile and analyze bottlenecks.

WordPress
Development

Creating themes from scratch. Starting from design templates till the deployment of Project. Create over hundreds of custom functionality plugins to fulfill client’s requirements

Graphic
Designing

Develop visual concepts by hand or with using latest graphics designing tools.

Database
Management

Designing database tables and dictionaries. Creating program views, functions, and stored procedures. Writing optimized SQL queries for integration with other applications.

DevOps

Architect, Optimize, Migrate, CI/CD and Automation tasks.

Technologies

Front-End

  • HTML 5
  • CSS 3
  • JavaScript / jQuery
  • Bootstrap
  • SASS / LESS
  • Tailwind
  • React JS
  • Vue JS
  • Angular JS
  • Typescript

Back-End

  • PHP
  • WordPress
  • Joomla
  • Laravel
  • CodeIgniter
  • RESTful APIs
  • SOAP services
  • API Integration
  • Docker

WordPress

  • Elementor
  • WP Bakery
  • Oxygen
  • Beaver
  • Divi
  • WooCommerce
  • ACF Pro
  • Gutenberg

WordPress Custom Development

  • Custom Gutenberg Blocks
  • Theme development
  • Plugin development
  • WP CLI
  • WP Engine
  • WP Local

Database

  • MySQL
  • MSSQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • pSQL
  • SQLite
  • NoSQL
  • MongoDB
  • MariaDB
  • GraphQL

Communication

  • Slack
  • Asana
  • Jira
  • Trello
  • Google Chat
  • Microsoft Team
  • Zoom

Tools

  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Adobe XD
  • Adobe Illustrator
  • Sketch
  • Figma
  • Canva
  • Git / GitHub / GitLab
  • Postman