Hamza Farooq

Freelance WordPress Developer

Self-Employed / Freelancer • Freelance

Jan 2020 - Present • 6 yrs 9 mos

Freelance WordPress work for small businesses and agencies, alongside my full time roles. • Build and redesign WordPress websites with Elementor, Divi and WPBakery • Fix broken layouts, PHP errors and plugin conflicts, and bring old sites up to current PHP and WordPress versions • Set up WooCommerce stores, contact forms, booking and basic on page SEO • Move sites to new hosts and domains with full backups and staging • Build React and Node.js web apps when a project needs more than WordPress Stack: WordPress, PHP, MySQL, Elementor, Divi, WooCommerce, React, Node.js, Express

Senior Full Stack Developer (React, Node.js)

Home • Full-time

Aug 2025 - Aug 2026 • 1 yr

Worked on almost the entire Oykos platform end to end: three web and mobile applications for paediatricians, parents and administrators, used by 15 paediatricians and more than 10,000 parents. • Built the parent app in React Native and Expo, and as an offline first PWA • Built an AI pipeline with a fine tuned GPT 4.1 model that reads symptoms from parent messages for triage • Integrated Stripe payments, SMS verification, real time chat with Socket.IO and video calls • Ran the AWS infrastructure (ECS, RDS, S3, CloudFront) with Terraform and CI/CD, and cut one admin screen from 34 requests to 7 • Implemented passkeys, MFA, role based access and audit trails under GDPR Stack: React, Node.js, Express, React Native, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, AWS

Full Stack Developer (WordPress, React, .NET)

Sorgente • Full-time

Jan 2022 - Jul 2025 • 3 yrs 6 mos

Full time remote role with an Italian company, building websites and business systems for B2B and B2C clients. • Built and maintained WordPress websites for the company and its clients: custom themes, page builder layouts, plugin updates and PHP fixes • Kept WordPress sites fast and secure with updates, backups and performance tuning • Engineered custom ERP systems covering accounting, inventory, orders and real time analytics • Led the migration of legacy Web Forms and VB.NET systems to .NET Core services with React and Angular front ends • Cut query execution time by 30% through query, stored procedure and index tuning • Built warehouse and shipping integrations and digital signature workflows for electronic contracts Stack: WordPress, PHP, MySQL, React, Angular, C#, .NET Core, SQL Server, Salesforce