Himad Mouhtar

I worked for several years as one of the developers for the PayPal Payments for WooCommerce plugin, where I led fraud investigations and implemented prevention measures, implemented a new optimized UI using React, handled bug reports, and more.

I worked as one of the lead developers on MultilingualPress, one of the most popular multilingual plugins for WordPress. I helped implement an AI translations feature, modernize a large legacy codebase, handle bug reports, and manage overall maintenance and feature development for the plugin.

As the lead engineer at GenerationGenius, a prominent e-learning platform for school science in the US, I introduced new features to enhance the platform. Additionally, I developed a plan to systematically optimize and phase out legacy components of the WordPress site.

MRI Online partners with proven educators to create the best training experiences for radiologists in every stage of their careers. I worked with a team of more than eight developers and helped diagnose and fix performance issues, created API endpoints, and did customizations on the back end.

• Migrated from an unsupported theme, patched vulnerabilities, and removed the website from blocklists, ensuring safe user interaction and upholding reputation.
• Revamped the donation process flow, resulting in a noticeable increase in donations for Carbon Offsets To Alleviate Poverty (COTAP).
• Optimized the site's performance to achieve faster load times, reduced bounce rates, and enhanced user engagement, amplifying the nonprofit's impact

Oakworld is a WooCommerce furniture store with 100,000+ products and tens of thousands of orders per year. While I worked with them, I helped them significantly improve the store's performance and introduced better practices to handle some of the background processes they had.

The Collective Rising is a digital membership community that provides women with newfound access to discovery, recognition, and advancement opportunities.

ROLE
• Developed an advanced and highly customized MemberPress workflow, implementing Gravity Flow and Gravity Forms.
• Customized the behavior of the Mailchimp add-on for GForms by using hooks.
• Implemented Zapier, Google Sheets, and MemberPress callbacks based on user actions.
• Integrated Gitlab CI to push changes automatically to production and development environments in WPEngine.

TECHNOLOGIES: MemberPress, WordPress, PHP, jQuery, SASS, Gulp, Gitlab, CI

SearchTreatment is a digital search portal that offers access to behavioral health services supporting providers and partners in their initiation of referrals through the development of referral management.

• Compliance with HIPAA laws was enforced during the development process
• Extended Gravity Forms and Advanced Custom Fields functionality with hooks
• Conducted general maintenance, solved performance issues, and built new pages
• Created an integration with Gravity Forms and a SQL Server database located in a remote server

TECHNOLOGIES: WordPress, PHP, SQL Server, Gravity Forms, ACF

Sparketh is a library of fun, online art video lessons for kids and teens 6 to 18-​year-olds. I helped them optimize their site, get rid of unnecessary plugins and custom code, and improve their security after several threads like carding attacks.

I've been an active contributor to the WordPress StackExchange, a forum where developers go to get answers on plugins, themes, and any problem related to WordPress. By providing helpful solutions to the community, I've become part of the top 2% contributors of the year.