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.

Shipped 20+ production sites across 6 industries
Standardized a launch checklist adopted by 3 partner agencies
Average PageSpeed on delivered projects: 96/100

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.

Led development on 14 client projects, including 4 flagship builds
Introduced a shared component library, cutting build time by ~35%
Mentored 3 junior developers on WordPress fundamentals

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.

Delivered 40+ business websites end to end
Reduced average site load time from 3.4s to 1.2s across the portfolio
Set up automated backup and monitoring on all client sites

Testimonials

Trusted by the people who hired me.

Rahat took a website we’d been dragging around for years and turned it into something we’re proud to send clients. Fast, clear, and quietly beautiful.

Lena Erbacher

Managing Partner, Erbacher Legal

Rare combination of a developer who cares about design and a designer who understands business. Our checkout conversion jumped 34% in the first month.

Marcus Vo

Founder, SwellStop

The most organized WordPress developer I’ve worked with. Every handoff was clean, every deadline hit.

Priya Rao

Creative Director, Flowex

He took our membership site from a mess of plugins to a real platform. We finally trust our own backend.

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.

Performance12 min read

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

WordPress9 min read

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

WooCommerce8 min read

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

Accessibility7 min read

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.

TemplatesNotion

Website Audit Template

A 40-point audit template covering performance, SEO, accessibility, content, and technical health.

ChecklistsPDF

WordPress Launch Checklist

The exact checklist I run before shipping any WordPress site with 62 items, categorized by risk.

ChecklistsPDF

On-page SEO Checklist

A pragmatic on-page SEO checklist for content-driven WordPress sites in 2026.

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.

Independent WordPress developer building thoughtful, fast, accessible websites for founders, agencies, and product teams.

Available for freelance & full-time

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