Senior WordPress Developer · Surat, India

I build WordPress
that works hard.

I’m Nikunj Hatkar — a senior developer turning complex plugin, commerce, and API challenges into dependable products people enjoy using.

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What I do

Complex under the hood.
Simple where it matters.

I work at the intersection of engineering depth and real business needs—from a custom plugin’s first architecture decision to the production release that reaches thousands of sites.

Selected experience

A career built in
the open web.

From first commit to team lead, I’ve grown by owning difficult problems and helping others do their best work.

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2024 — 2026

Updraft WP Software

WordPress Developer · UK, remote

Worked across WPGetAPI, Internal Link Juicer, UpdraftPlus, and Two Factor Authentication. Built Simple Migration for UpdraftPlus, redesigned WPGetAPI with Gutenberg blocks, and delivered upgrade paths with zero user-data loss.

Plugin developmentGutenbergGitLab CI/CD
02
2022 — 2024

Crest Infosystems

Senior Software Engineer · Surat

Led international WordPress engagements, engineered multisite platforms, and designed POS integrations connecting products, orders, and users across WooCommerce and BigCommerce.

REST APIsWordPress MultisiteAWS
03
2017 — 2021

Dynamic Dreamz

Team Lead · Surat

Led and mentored a WordPress team while delivering high-traffic sites, e-commerce stores, BuddyBoss communities, and EDD platforms for an Australia-based agency account.

Team leadershipPerformanceWooCommerce
04
2017

Adbookee Media Solutions

PHP Developer · Surat

Started a professional development career in core PHP and CodeIgniter, building admin tools and a multi-role restaurant coupon platform.

Core PHPCodeIgniterAPIs

How I can help

Deep WordPress craft,
end to end.

01

WordPress engineering

Custom plugins and themes, multisite architecture, Gutenberg blocks, EDD, BuddyBoss, and page-builder ecosystems.

02

Commerce & integrations

WooCommerce, BigCommerce, POS systems, payment gateways, and resilient third-party REST API integrations.

03

Performance & delivery

Database tuning, caching, security hardening, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, code review, and reliable release management.

04

Technical leadership

Discovery, estimation, stakeholder communication, team mentorship, documentation, support, and hiring.

PHPJavaScriptReactMySQLWordPressWooCommerceREST APIsGutenbergAWSGitLab
WP

Open-source community

Giving back to the platform that shaped my career.

WordPress is more than a tool—it’s a community. I contribute time, testing, and leadership to make each release stronger for everyone.

  • Core Test Team Representative, 2025–26
  • Test Lead for the WordPress 7.1 release
  • Noteworthy contributor to WordPress 6.8
  • WordCamp Surat organizer
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“Good engineering is invisible. The experience just feels right, the data stays safe, and the next developer knows exactly where to begin.”

My approach to building for the web

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Have a knotty WordPress problem? Let’s untangle it.

Available for senior engineering roles, plugin projects, technical leadership, and interesting WordPress challenges.

Surat, Gujarat, India