Ahmad Wael
Verified Expert in Engineering
WordPress Developer
Ahmad is a WordPress developer with a decade of experience and has progressed from a blogger to a skilled professional. He has mastered working on custom-built WordPress themes and plugins, using recognized plugins on his projects, such as Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), Elementor, WooCommerce, WP All Import, Contact Form 7, and Gravity Forms. Besides WordPress, Ahmad enjoys exploring Linux and its tools, using those skills in website migrations and server cleaning and analysis.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
PHP, MySQL, WordPress, MacOS, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), PhpStorm, GitHub, PhpMyAdmin, Google Chrome, Slack
The most amazing...
...website themes I've developed are four WordPress premium themes that have been reviewed and approved to be sold on the Envato market.
Work Experience
Certified Expert WordPress Developer
An Online Freelance Agency
- Used popular page builders like Elementor to design several themes.
- Troubleshot and fixed issues and WordPress plugin bugs efficiently and quickly.
- Developed many websites for small and mid-size companies.
- Offered ongoing maintenance support for WordPress websites, including backups, updates, and monitoring.
WordPress Lead Developer
Arageek
- Reduced the company infrastructure costs by $2,000 per month by fixing its WordPress website's core plugin complexity issues and applying the best PHP and WordPress code practices.
- Built a smart search engine for the company's website that can guess the search results from words with typos and provide the best results, using Typesense engine, PHP, WP-CLI, and WordPress REST API.
- Led the conversion of the company's WordPress website into a headless website, and now it is using WordPress as the back end and dashboard only, while the front end of the website is working with Next.js.
- Transferred a lot of gigabytes of the company's website media to be hosted on the Amazon S3 service, fixing many database image links and uploading files using PHP, MySQL, and s3cmd.
- Created WP-CLI custom commands that helped remove nearly all 404 and 301 links in the company's website database using PHP, MySQL, WP-CLI, PHP command line, and Linux.
Exclusive WordPress Code Author
Envato
- Performed all planning, analysis, design, and implementation of the whole process of creating WordPress themes that meet customer needs.
- Created the documentation to help the customer to learn how to work with the themes.
- Logged, diagnosed, and solved the queries of customers as a support agent.
WordPress Technical Lead
Business Valley
- Developed a website builder, enabling vendors to fill a small form, and the builder will create a new online store with a selected theme and a new React Native mobile app uploaded to the app stores.
- Built a simplified dashboard with unique graphics on top of the WordPress dashboard to help vendors and non-technical people get their market insights and interact with the dashboard easily.
- Enabled support for top drop shippers, allowing the vendors to form their online market without having any goods, focusing only on marketing.
- Added support for local payment gateway and shipping providers and integrated them into the WooCommerce shop to help vendors start selling without paperwork.
- Created a lightweight WordPress theme based on the ACF plugin that combines many customization possibilities and fast website loading.
Experience
WordPress SEO Crawler Plugin
https://github.com/DevWael/wp-seo-crawlerWooCommerce Purchase Orders
https://github.com/DevWael/wc-purchase-ordersNorman Website
https://normanusa.comWindowMag WordPress Theme
https://bbioon.com/window/news/Wink Blogging WordPress Theme
https://www.bbioon.com/wink_blog/food/Empire Banking Website
https://empirebaking.com/Skills
Languages
PHP, JavaScript, CSS, Less, HTML, HTML5, SQL, CSS3
Frameworks
Unyson, Redux, Bootstrap, Twig, PHPUnit
Libraries/APIs
WordPress REST API, Carbon, WooCommerce API, Custom APIs, REST APIs, jQuery, WordPress API, Node.js, Masonry
Tools
NGINX, WP-CLI, Gutenberg Editor, Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), ACF PRO, GitHub, PhpStorm, Divi Builder 3, WPML, WP All Import, Slack, Git, GitHub Pages, PHP-FPM, PhpMyAdmin, Figma, Chrome Developer Tools, Composer
Paradigms
Hosting, Responsive Web Design (RWD)
Platforms
WordPress, WooCommerce, Google Chrome, WordPress Theme Design, MacOS, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Linux, Ubuntu, Algolia
Other
WordPress Plugins, Website Migration, Troubleshooting, WordPress Themes, Visual Composer, Contact Form 7, Git Repo, Git Flow, HTML to WordPress, Yoast SEO, Plugins, RTL, Content Management Systems (CMS), Back-end, APIs, FTP, Web Development, Video Streaming, Elementor, WooCommerce Subscriptions 2, GitHub Actions, WordPress Multisite, Payment Gateways, Data Migration, Software Consulting, WordPress Design, Online Payments, Landing Pages, GiveWP, eCommerce, Full-stack, Front-end, Web Hosting, ChatGPT, Cloudflare, PSD to WordPress, TinyMCE, AI to WordPress, Masonry Grids, GitOps, PHP 8, Typesense, Web Scraping, SEO Tools, User Interface (UI), User Experience (UX), Lead Generation, Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPT), Integration, Scraping, YML, Ajax
Storage
MySQL, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), WP Engine, Redis Cache
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Law and Justice Administration
Mansoura University, Faculty of Law - Mansoura, Egypt
Certifications
Certified WordPress Expert
Codeable.io