📍 Dubai, UAE · Remote (UK) · 🛠 Senior Full-Stack Engineer · 10 years shipping production web software

Ten years modernizing WordPress/PHP systems for UK companies, now shipping my own products and open-source tooling. The engineer teams turn to when something is broken or outdated.

• 🛡️ SafeGuard · WordPress backup plugin. PHP + React plugin, Next.js 16 licensing dashboard, Postgres, Docker on Hetzner. 40+ beta users · 470+ tests.
• 🌀 SpinStack (in development) · AI-powered WordPress hosting platform — automates provisioning, scaling, and site operations.

• 📱 wu-cli · ★7 · TypeScript — "gh for WhatsApp." Baileys-based CLI with MCP server integration so Claude Code can drive it. On npm.
• 🤖 wa-agent · ★6 · TypeScript — Framework for building autonomous AI agents on WhatsApp. YAML-configured personalities, Vercel AI SDK, multi-agent routing, conversation memory with windowing + summarization.
• 📸 ig-dl · Go — Instagram downloader as a single Go binary: CLI + MCP server in one executable. Attaches to a running Chrome over CDP for session capture; smart routing between yt-dlp and gallery-dl.
• 🐚 clack-bash · ★1 · Shell — Clack-style interactive prompts, pure Bash.

• facebook/react-native#55393 · Fix VirtualizedList ignoring initialScrollIndex when scroll event arrives with offset=0. CLA signed, Meta review.
• vercel-labs/skills#76 · merged · skills list command to show installed skills.

Started managing client projects and teams at Quattro Technology in Oman — 7-person mixed team, 98% client retention over five years, 20+ responsive sites delivered. Transitioned to remote UK contracts (The Key, Xara, Updraft) tackling harder technical problems:

• 10× WordPress load-time improvement at Xara by fixing long-standing server-side bottlenecks (PHP extension config, runtime version, infra tuning) that the team had left unaddressed
• Kohana → WordPress framework migration, 40+ pages, mostly solo
• WPGetAPI UX/UI overhaul at Updraft — ~20% reduction in support-ticket volume post-release
• Extended REST APIs with backward compatibility, improving complex-query response times by ~20%

Deep specialist in WordPress/PHP, with equal confidence in TypeScript, React, Next.js, Go, and distributed-systems work. Hands-on experience as solo owner, team lead, and cross-functional partner across product, design, marketing, and infrastructure.

Open to remote senior full-stack roles, or visa-sponsored positions in UK / Spain / US / Germany / Netherlands / UAE. WordPress / PHP ecosystem work, React / Next.js frontends, or AI-agent infrastructure all in-scope.

Target: $60k USD / year minimum. Open to contract, freelance, or full-time.

📬 Best way to reach me: LinkedIn → @ibrahimwithi (I respond within a day).