Umar is available for hire

Umar Draz

Verified Expert in Engineering

WordPress Developer

Location

Islamabad, Islamabad Capital Territory, Pakistan

Toptal Member Since

June 17, 2019

Umar is a highly skilled full-stack developer with over 13 years of experience building high-quality websites and mobile apps. He's an expert in WordPress, WooCommerce, and Android/iOS app development. Umar has excellent communication skills and writes beautiful, maintainable code that exceeds client expectations.

PSD to WordPress Website Migration WordPress Design Front-end WordPress Plugins WordPress Themes HTML to WordPress Full-stack User Experience (UX)Full-stack Development Ajax WooCommerce Subscriptions 2 Cordova Adobe WordPress API Capacitor

Portfolio

Dawsun Technologies (Software Development Company)

Ajax, Custom Post Types, CodeIgniter, HTML, Adobe, Git, Android, Ionic, Cordova...

HostPel (Web Hosting Company)

CSS, HTML, Customer Support, Communication, Terminal, Website Migration...

IT Pixelz (Software Development Company)

Ajax, Custom Post Types, CodeIgniter, HTML, Adobe, Git, WordPress, JavaScript...

Experience

PHP - 13 years JavaScript - 13 years WordPress - 13 years HTML - 13 years WooCommerce - 12 years Node.js - 9 years Angular - 8 years Ionic - 6 years

Availability

Full-time

Preferred Environment

Git, Terminal, PhpStorm, Google Chrome, MacOS

The most amazing...

...project I've collaborated on was a WordPress website that included Android and iOS apps with different levels of membership for subscription-based payment.

Work Experience

CEO | Full-stack Developer

2015 - PRESENT

Dawsun Technologies (Software Development Company)

Developed hundreds of WordPress themes from scratch, integrating diverse features such as WooCommerce custom development, API integration, web service APIs for Android and iOS apps, membership, subscription, and a custom dashboard.
Built hundreds of WordPress plugins to enable advanced features, including WooCommerce shipping, payment gateways, gallery, slider, event calendar, email configuration, language translation switch, and database records.
Developed dozens of Android and iOS applications, using Angular, Ionic, Cordova, and Capacitor to enable fingerprint login authentication, camera, gallery, eCommerce store, and budget application features.
Developed several fintech mobile applications and projects, including payment gateways, banking consumer applications, and human-centric UI and UX interfaces for illiterate persons, using audio and visual icons to support banking transactions.
Developed dozens of Angular applications for the dashboard, chat, quiz games, and recruitment platforms.
Contributed to some open-source projects and WordPress plugins, reaching more than 600,000 active installs and receiving an endorsement for code quality.

Technologies: Ajax, Custom Post Types, CodeIgniter, HTML, Adobe, Git, Android, Ionic, Cordova, Angular, TypeScript, WordPress, JavaScript, PHP, WordPress Plugins, jQuery UI, jQuery, CSS3, Node.js, PhoneGap, Customer Support, Communication, Terminal, WooCommerce API, WordPress API, API Integration, PhpStorm, Laravel 5, APIs, WooCommerce, Bootstrap, CSS, Full-stack, HTML to WordPress, WordPress Themes, User Experience (UX), PSD to WordPress, Capacitor, iOS, Laravel

CEO

2011 - PRESENT

HostPel (Web Hosting Company)

Maintained hundreds of websites for satisfied web hosting clients.
Provided high-quality web hosting and domain name registration services with quality support.
Migrated hundreds of websites for the clients to our server.
Managed with a great understanding of the DNS and how it works with the web hosting servers.

Technologies: CSS, HTML, Customer Support, Communication, Terminal, Website Migration, VPS/VDS, Web Host Manager (WHM), cPanel

CEO | Full-stack Web Developer

2010 - 2015

IT Pixelz (Software Development Company)

Developed hundreds of websites for clients with 100% satisfaction.
Built hundreds of advanced WordPress themes and plugins.
Maintained a number of websites for security and feature updates.

Technologies: Ajax, Custom Post Types, CodeIgniter, HTML, Adobe, Git, WordPress, JavaScript, PHP, WordPress Plugins, jQuery UI, jQuery, Customer Support, Communication, WooCommerce API, WordPress API, API Integration, APIs, WooCommerce, CSS, Full-stack, HTML to WordPress, WordPress Themes, User Experience (UX), PSD to WordPress

Experience

Flamingo WordPress Plugin | Open Source Contribution | 700,000+ Active Installs

https://wordpress.org/plugins/flamingo/

Flamingo is a message storage plugin originally created for Contact Form 7. My major contribution in version 2.1 was to let users get rid of spam messages from their website database. I developed a mechanism that moves spam messages via a WordPress cron job after every 30 days by default with the settings option to disable or change the days' frequency.

Here are more details about my contribution: https://contactform7.com/2019/09/09/flamingo-21/

WP Default Sender Email | WordPress Plugin

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-default-sender-email-by-it-pixelz/

This simple plugin enables the website to send WordPress default system emails from a custom email address set by this plugin. This replaces the default WordPress sender email wordpress@domian.com with custom-email@domain.com.

Digital Cash | Payment Gateway

I developed a simple, safe, and secure way to do transactions via a digital cash mobile application. Currently, this is an Android and iOS mobile application with a beta server at the back end and tested with a real bank's API.

WP Bootstrap Carousel | WordPress Plugin

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-bootstrap-carousel-by-it-pixelz/

I developed a slider plugin for Twitter Bootstrap. You can, in just a few clicks, add a Bootstrap professional carousel slider by using this plugin. This plugin is a smart way to display a Bootstrap slider dynamically and have full control of the sliders and caption.

Skills

Languages

CSS, TypeScript, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, PHP, HTML, SCSS, PHP 7

Frameworks

PhoneGap, Angular, Ionic, Bootstrap, Vanilla JS, NestJS, Laravel, Laravel 5, CodeIgniter

Libraries/APIs

WordPress API, WordPress REST API, WooCommerce API, Google Maps API, Node.js, REST APIs, jQuery, jQuery UI, Twilio API, BuddyPress

Tools

Capacitor, Adobe, Cordova Plugins, OneSignal, PhpStorm, Git, Terminal

Paradigms

Mobile Development, Agile

Platforms

MacOS, Google Chrome, WordPress Theme Design, WordPress, Android, iOS, WooCommerce, Twilio, Linux, Unix, cPanel

Storage

MariaDB, MySQL, SQLite, Database Architecture

Other

PSD to WordPress, APIs, Web Host Manager (WHM), API Integration, Communication, Information Technology, Website Migration, WordPress Design, Front-end, Front-end Development, Custom Post Types, Ajax, Cordova, WordPress Plugins, WordPress Themes, HTML to WordPress, Full-stack, User Experience (UX), WooCommerce Subscriptions 2, Progressive Web Applications (PWA), Full-stack Development, Technical Leadership, Finance, VPS/VDS, Customer Support, Contact Form 7, Community Development, Events

Industry Expertise

Accounting

Education

2008 - 2010

Bachelor of Commerce Degree in IT | Business Finance and Taxation

University of the Punjab - Lahore, Pakistan

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