Skills & toolkit.
A detailed catalog of the technologies, languages, and architectures I work with on daily production builds, categorized by domain proficiency.
Core Competency Matrix.
E-Commerce
Commerce Architecture
Custom checkout loops, payment gateways, webhook listeners, and transaction scaling.
Backend
API & Database Engineering
Laravel REST/GraphQL service APIs, SQL query index tunings, and background queue jobs systems.
Frontend
Interactive Product Design
React RSC/NextJS pipelines, static site compile paths (Astro), and micro-state stores.
Cloud / DevOps
Operations & Automation
GitHub Actions pipelines, Docker multi-stage compose, Nginx, and cloud virtualizations.
My primary domains of product engineering and platform architecture.
WooCommerce Core & Checkout Engineering
Architecting and optimizing enterprise-grade e-commerce checkout loops. Deep experience developing payment gateways, secure webhook listeners under high volume concurrency, customized action schedulers, transactional email pipelines, and cart behaviors built to achieve sub-second page loads under massive server concurrency.
WordPress Plugin Architecture
Over 8 years building commercial plugins used by over a million active sites. Specialized in hook lifecycle management (actions/filters), robust custom database schema mappings, index tuning, transients caching strategies, Gutenberg custom blocks development using React, and strict codebase security audits.
JavaScript & TypeScript frameworks utilized for creating responsive applications.
React / Next.js
Primary frontend stack for building responsive, decoupled web applications. Expert with React Server Components, Next.js App Router architectures, server-side rendering (SSR), incremental static regeneration (ISR), clean Zustand/Context state stores, and bundle size reduction optimization.
TypeScript
Enforcing strict type-safety across both frontend client apps and backend server models. Experienced in writing custom generics, complex utility types, template literal types, custom type guards, and configuring compiler options to catch bugs before they reach production.
Tailwind CSS v4 & Astro
Deploying zero-JS frontend applications utilizing Astro's island architecture. Styling layouts using Tailwind v4 fluid systems, container queries, CSS variables based styling tokens, custom animation transitions, and responsive fluid grids.
AI Integration & Agentic Systems
Developing autonomous agent loops and tool-calling systems. Experienced in integrating and orchestrating models like Gemini, Claude, DeepSeek, Cohere Command, and open-source models like Llama, Qwen, and OpenCode tools.
Server environments, data design schemas, and relational database managers.
PHP & Laravel
Building decoupled MVC RESTful APIs and backend services using modern PHP and Laravel. Leveraging Redis caching, asynchronous queue pipelines, background jobs scheduler systems, complex Eloquent query optimizations, and robust automated test suites (PHPUnit) to keep regressions at zero.
Node.js & Express
Creating concurrent API servers, real-time event loops, custom express middlewares (for security validations and CORS configurations), request validator configurations, and cron-driven background microservices utilizing modern ES6 JavaScript.
API Design (REST & Graph)
Architecting reliable, self-documenting resource schemas for headless environments. Configuring API version controls, rate limiters, token-based authorizers, custom REST endpoint controllers, and GraphQL resolvers for headless integrations.
Extending core content pipelines, custom plugins, and headless CMS integrations.
WordPress
Overriding core behaviors cleanly using WP Hooks, optimizing WP_Query configurations, custom post mappings, metadata table structures, transients configurations, headless integrations, and configuring multisite networks for massive scalability.
Headless CMS Platforms
Structuring headless schemas, setting up content collections, managing sync relationships, and creating fast rendering loops using APIs from Strapi, Cockpit CMS, PocketBase, and Contentful.
Source control, automation pipelines, site hosting, and virtualization setups.
MySQL / PostgreSQL
Structuring performant relational databases. Specialized in analyzing query execution plans via EXPLAIN, writing composite and covering indexes, tuning joins, debugging database write lock issues, and configuring replica configurations.
Git & CI/CD Pipelines
Version control structure management, branching policies, and writing automated checks via GitHub Actions. Automating type checks, format checkers, unit tests, semantic versioning tag releases, and zero-downtime atomic deployments.
Docker & Linux Servers
Configuring Docker containerization files (Multi-stage Dockerfiles and Compose), setting up local dev environments, administering Nginx web server blocks, managing SSL security certificate renewals, SSH protocols, and cron tab automation scripts.
Older technologies and legacy frontend libraries maintained on client portals.
jQuery
Refactoring, optimizing, and maintaining legacy plugin interactions. Resolving memory leak event listeners, cleaning up selector chains, managing DOM tree manipulation, and ensuring compatibility on legacy portals.
AJAX
Managing partial page refreshes, asynchronous validations, raw XMLHttpRequests, custom security nonce check integrations, and form submission flows inside older PHP and WordPress installations.
Bootstrap
Maintaining and updating CSS grids, custom Sass color overrides, layout breakpoints, form alignments, and administrative layout templates on older client dashboards and backend portals.