Sydur Rahman
Professional Summary
Full-Stack Web Developer with 7+ years of experience building scalable web applications, custom PHP solutions, and production-ready products. Expert across both the WordPress and Laravel ecosystems, delivering REST APIs, Vue.js-driven interfaces, custom plugin architecture, and business websites. Led development of flagship plugins including Ultimate Addons for Contact Form 7 and Hydra Booking. Focused on clean, maintainable code, strong UX, and solutions that solve real business problems.
Technical Skills
Work Experience
Built WordPress plugins from scratch with full ownership of the feature lifecycle—from scoping requirements to shipping to production. Wrote clean OOP PHP that performs reliably across different hosting setups, conducted code reviews to keep team standards consistent, and worked directly with clients to transform real business problems into practical solutions.
Maintained and extended a portfolio of 5–6 live plugins, adding features, fixing bugs, and ensuring backward compatibility. Built new functionality using PHP, Vue.js, and Gutenberg, and resolved compatibility issues across themes, plugins, and hosting environments. Maintained internal sites and landing pages alongside plugin work.
Built complete websites for small and medium businesses, from wireframe and design through to launch, using WordPress, Laravel, and raw PHP with OOP. Developed custom themes, designed UI layouts, handled plugin customizations, and provided ongoing maintenance, security patches, and updates. Trained clients to manage their own content independently.
Portfolio & Selected Projects
Led development of an add-on suite extending Contact Form 7 with advanced fields, conditional logic, and third-party integrations across a large active-install base.
Architected a complete WordPress appointment & booking plugin from the ground up: OOP backend, REST API, and a Vue.js admin interface.
Designed and built a full hotel booking system using Laravel and Vue.js with Inertia.js. The frontend allows guests to browse rooms and submit booking requests. The Vue-powered admin panel lets staff manage rooms, update booking statuses, and send automated emails. Includes a role management system for access control.
Rebuilt an outdated WordPress theme into a modern, fully custom implementation using Tailwind CSS and a clean SCSS architecture based on a Figma design. Refactored the codebase, added significant new functionality, and optimised performance throughout. No page-builder dependency; fully hand-coded.
Collaborative project converting a Figma design into a fully custom WordPress theme using Tailwind CSS and SCSS. Contributed to the use cases, integrations, resources, and all features pages. Fully hand-coded with clear team ownership and no page builders.
Designed and developed a professional website from scratch for a tax advisory company. Built a custom WordPress theme tailored to the brand, and integrated Contact Form 7 to capture and manage client enquiry details.
Built a full-featured multi-page hospital and clinic website including doctor profiles, appointment booking, services, blog, and gallery pages. Implemented a custom Tailwind CSS and SCSS design system with an esbuild pipeline for fast, optimised production builds.
Built a comprehensive multi-page school website covering admissions, academic calendar, exam results, notices, teacher and staff profiles, gallery, and a student login/registration portal.
Plugin profiles, contributions, and project demos across WordPress.org and GitHub.
Key Achievements
- Scored in the 97th percentile globally on the TestGorilla WordPress Developer assessment.
- Integrated 40+ third-party platforms with custom WordPress plugins and solutions for various business needs.
- Improved plugin performance by 40%+ using WPDB optimization, caching, and optimised asset loading.
- Built a scalable multilingual plugin system with WPML and Polylang support for enterprise use cases.
- Migrated legacy jQuery plugin interfaces to Vue.js, significantly improving performance and maintainability.
- Implemented PHPUnit testing in existing plugins, reducing regression issues and improving overall stability.
- Delivered custom WordPress, WooCommerce, and plugin-based solutions for diverse client requirements.
Core Competencies
Education
A non-traditional path into tech, supplemented by 7+ years of self-directed, hands-on web development, bringing business acumen and analytical thinking alongside deep technical expertise.