WordPress websites, engineered like products.
I’m Rahat, an independent WordPress developer helping founders, agencies, and growing companies ship websites that are quiet, fast, and built to last. Six years, eighty projects, one obsession with craft.
Open to freelance projects and full-time opportunities.
Rahat Chowdhury
WordPress Developer · Bangladesh (UTC+6)
Currently building
A membership platform for a financial community · WooCommerce + JetEngine
80+
Projects
96
PageSpeed
24h
Reply time
Core Web Vitals
A11y
Trusted by teams building with
Selected work
Real projects, real results.
A small selection of recent work, the case studies I’d share with a serious client on a first call.
eCommerce · 2024
SwellStop
A boutique surf brand’s flagship storefront rebuilt around speed, storytelling, and a frictionless checkout.
PageSpeed
Conversion
Bounce rate
SaaS · 2024
Handoo
A launch site for a handoff tool used by product teams quiet, editorial, engineered for clarity.
Signups (30d)
PageSpeed
LCP
Legal · 2023
Erbacher Legal
A quiet, trustworthy web presence for a European legal practice built for authority and accessibility.
Accessibility
Organic traffic
Contact leads
Finance · 2023
Tradelines
A membership platform for a financial coaching community with gated content, dashboards, and payments.
Active members
MRR
Retention
By the numbers
Six years of shipping, quietly.
Expertise
Areas I go deep in.
A short list of the things I’ve spent years getting good at and the things clients actually pay me to think about.
WordPress
10+ years of production WordPress with themes, plugins, custom queries, and hooks.
WooCommerce
Storefronts, checkouts, subscriptions, and integrations at scale.
Elementor Pro
Advanced Elementor architectures with custom widgets and dynamic data.
Crocoblock / JetEngine
Content modeling, relationships, and dynamic listings done cleanly.
Performance
Core Web Vitals, caching, image pipelines, and database hygiene.
SEO
Technical and on-page SEO baked into the build, not bolted on.
Accessibility
WCAG 2.1 AA as a default, not a request.
Security
Hardening, WAF, monitoring, and sensible update discipline.
What I do
Services, not packages.
Every engagement is scoped around your actual problem, never dropped into a tier. A few of the things I’m usually hired to do:
01
Custom Website Development
Bespoke WordPress sites, built around your content and business not a template. Fast, accessible, easy to maintain.
02
WooCommerce Stores
Storefronts engineered for conversion. Clean product data, thoughtful checkouts, real performance budgets.
03
Membership Platforms
Gated content, member dashboards, subscriptions, and community features on WordPress without the plugin sprawl.
04
Performance & SEO
Deep audits and fixes for Core Web Vitals, on-page SEO, and information architecture on existing sites.
05
Maintenance & Support
Long-term technical partnership with updates, backups, monitoring, security, and a real person on the other end.
06
Migration & Rebuilds
Careful migrations from other CMSs, or rebuilds of existing WordPress sites that have outgrown themselves.
Experience
A career built on real projects.
2024 – Present
Independent
WordPress Developer & Consultant
Working directly with founders, agencies, and product teams on WordPress, WooCommerce, and membership platforms. Focus on performance, accessibility, and long-term maintainability.
2022 – 2024
Flowex
Senior WordPress Developer
Led development on complex membership and eCommerce projects. Introduced a component library and performance baseline used across the studio.
2020 – 2022
Softvence
WordPress Developer
Built and maintained websites for clients across legal, healthcare, and corporate industries. Owned QA, launch, and post-launch support cycles.
Testimonials
Trusted by the people who hired me.
Lena Erbacher
Managing Partner, Erbacher Legal
Marcus Vo
Founder, SwellStop
Priya Rao
Creative Director, Flowex
Daniel Kwon
COO, Tradelines
Workflow
How working with me actually feels.
A calm, repeatable process. Nothing precious, nothing surprising.
01
Discover
Understand the business, audience, and constraints before touching design.
02
Research
Audit competitors, references, existing content, and technical baseline.
03
Plan
Scope, sitemap, content model, and a realistic timeline you can hold me to.
04
Design
Layouts and components in a system, not a stack of one-off screens.
05
Build
Clean WordPress architecture, semantic HTML, and no plugin-as-magic.
06
Test
Real devices, real users, real assistive tech. Fix before launch.
07
Launch
Careful DNS, monitoring, redirects, and a calm launch day.
08
Support
Ongoing maintenance, updates, and improvements as your business grows.
Journal
Notes on craft & code.
How I ship WordPress sites that score 95+ on PageSpeed in 2026
A practical, opinionated walkthrough of the caching, image, and query patterns I use on every project with no plugins-as-magic.
Jul 2026
JetEngine, without the JetEngine mess
A calm approach to modeling content in JetEngine with relationships, meta boxes, and query patterns that don’t collapse under weight.
Jun 2026
The 12-point WooCommerce checkout audit I run for every store
A no-nonsense checklist for auditing WooCommerce checkouts, ordered by impact on conversion and support load.
May 2026
The accessibility defaults I ship on every WordPress site
Focus states, contrast, landmarks, motion and a set of defaults I never negotiate away.
Apr 2026
Free resources
Toolbox, on the house.
Templates, checklists, and snippets I use on real projects. Take what’s useful.
Website Audit Template
A 40-point audit template covering performance, SEO, accessibility, content, and technical health.
WordPress Launch Checklist
The exact checklist I run before shipping any WordPress site with 62 items, categorized by risk.
On-page SEO Checklist
A pragmatic on-page SEO checklist for content-driven WordPress sites in 2026.
Common questions
Anything else on your mind?
A few things clients tend to ask before we start.
Let’s build
Let's build something meaningful together.
Whether it’s a business site, a WooCommerce store, or a long-term technical partnership, I’d love to hear about your project.
Usually replies within 24 hours.