Waqas Ali Azhar

I developed a WordPress-based trip booking eCommerce website as the lead developer, integrating WordPress and WooCommerce with the Bookings API from London Tours and portfolio cars. Our goal was to provide Heathrow tourists with a seamless way to purchase SIM cards, book rides, and schedule daily tours tailored to their time slots and travel dates.

I converted single products into variable products, enabling a dynamic cart system for custom trip calculations and bookings. Customers enjoyed a streamlined checkout process, receiving email confirmations with custom HTML templates and QR-based PDF tickets detailing their bookings. Upon payment confirmation, tours were automatically booked in the vendor’s system via the API.

Additionally, I worked on theme customizations and developed a custom plugin to provide discounts based on purchase dynamics, including tailored coupons. This project not only enhanced user convenience but also deepened my expertise in creating innovative solutions for the holiday and tour industry.

I developed Modern RoadTrips, a CakePHP-based portal designed to help business professionals plan tours with ease. The platform offered budget, standard, and premium price ranges, with options to hire a car or use their own vehicle. As the lead developer, I managed the entire process.

I converted Figma to responsive HTML based views using Bootstrap 4.

A key aspect of my role was implementing stable Cron jobs to maintain hotel listings on the server. I designed an algorithm to break down multi-city tours, incorporating hotel room types and car options to calculate per-person tour prices. One major improvement I introduced was optimizing database queries for hotel searches. This reduced package generation time from 2 minutes to just 30 seconds, significantly enhancing user experience.

I also developed a lead-capturing form, integrating Google Tag Manager and Pixels for improved analytics. Additionally, I integrated Brevo to handle order processing and lead registration, ensuring all bookings and leads were captured as contacts for marketing purposes. To support dynamic pricing, I enabled bulk import and export features, allowing product owners to manage discounted rates for hotel rooms efficiently.

A WordPress-based website that helps in field management and outsourcing field jobs to subcontract management using a portal that's connected to the main user-facing website.

My contribution to this project was to customize a contractor's dashboard built with a JavaScript-based DataTable library. I customized DataTable views to extend default buttons, helped with helpers tracking through Google Maps pinpoint locations, and helped with the creation of new API endpoints at backed written in Java. I delivered 100+ milestones that helped the company in securing another round of funding back in 2017.

Serchen is a marketplace connecting buyers and sellers for cloud services in Iaas and SaaS categories. I converted Serchen Figma design to a complete working homepage with pixel perfection. Client was eager about having an exact design from Figma source to a working website, i converted different pages from Homepage, Category listings and company listings, i also converted some admin pages from existing workflow to introduce a Paywall using PayPal.