Azeem Hassni — WordPress Expert & Laravel Developer

About

A bit about me

Fifteen years building for the web with Laravel, WordPress and React — and shipping products of my own.

I care about object-oriented design, tests, and code the next person won’t curse. I like moving fast without leaving a mess.

As an indie hacker I design, build and ship products end to end. I also maintain a handful of open-source PHP and JavaScript libraries, and contribute to brahui.dev, a community effort to bring an under-served language online.

Currently building — ShipMyForm · Filaro

15+: Years building
2: Products of my own
6: Open-source libs
50+: Projects delivered

Web Application Development

Laravel and PHP apps, built with tests and an eye on keeping them easy to change later.
WordPress Engineering

Custom themes and plugins with Timber and Twig, so the templates stay readable.
Modern Frontends

Interfaces in React, TypeScript and Tailwind that work on a cheap phone as well as a fast laptop.
Products & Tooling

Indie SaaS products and developer tools I take from a rough idea to something people can use.

Resume

Where I've worked

Experience

Jan 2019 — Present ● Current
Software Developer
@ Stack Builders

I build and maintain web applications across Laravel, PHP and JavaScript, and ship my own products on the side.
- Write and review full-stack features, with tests, that other people can pick up later.
- Lean on SOLID principles and a TDD habit to keep code easy to change.
- Design and ship my own products — ShipMyForm and Filaro — and contribute to brahui.dev.
Jan 2014 — Dec 2018
Development Team Lead
@ The Brand Crew

Led a small team building WordPress and Laravel projects for agencies and brands across Pakistan.
- Mentored teammates and reviewed their code.
- Built WordPress themes with the Timber library and Twig.
- Shipped work for HBL, Knorr, Peek Freans, EBM and Olivia.
2012 — 2014
WordPress Developer
@ BOLAN SOFT

Built custom WordPress themes and plugins for agency clients.
- Turned client requirements into bespoke themes and plugins.
- Worked day to day in PHP, jQuery and front-end code.
2011 — 2012
Front-End Developer
@ Brahvi Media

My first job — turning designs into code for an online magazine.
- Converted visual designs into clean, semantic markup.
- Kept the magazine codebase running and up to date.

Education

Ongoing
Open Source & Teaching
GitHub · YouTube
I keep learning by maintaining open-source libraries and recording programming tutorials.
2010 — Present
Self-Taught Developer
Learning by building
No formal degree. I learned to code by shipping real things, breaking them, and reading a lot of other people’s source.

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Tech stack

Languages

PHP
JavaScript
TypeScript
Python
HTML5
CSS3
SQL

Backend & Frameworks

Laravel
WordPress
CodeIgniter
Timber + Twig
REST APIs
GraphQL
Composer

Frontend

React
React Native
Astro
Tailwind CSS
Alpine.js

AI / ML

PyTorch
Hugging Face
NLP
Model Fine-tuning
LoRA

E-commerce

Shopify
WooCommerce

Practices

TDD
SOLID & Design Patterns
OOP
Clean Architecture
Code Review

Tooling & DevOps

Git
Docker
CI/CD
Vite
Webpack
Linux

Portfolio

Selected work

ShipMyForm

A form backend for developers. Point any HTML form at an endpoint and collect submissions with spam filtering — no server required.

SaaS
Forms
API

Products

Filaro

A queue-management SaaS for walk-in businesses. Customers scan a QR code, wait wherever they like, and get a nudge when it's their turn — no app to download.

SaaS
Queue Management
QR

Products

Scribe

Meeting notes that never leave your Mac. Scribe detects when you join a call, transcribes it with Whisper and writes notes with action items, all on-device. Free and open source.

macOS
Swift
Local AI
Open Source

Products

brahui.dev

A community effort to bring the Brahui language online. I built an English–Brahui corpus from scratch and fine-tuned Meta's NLLB-200 model to translate between the two.