Ariful Hoque

Hey there, I'm

Ariful
Hoque

AI & LLM Integration SaaS & Laravel Engineer Based in Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Biography

SaaS and AI engineer who ships AI into production: LLM features in WordPress plugins running on 35,000+ live sites, a RAG retrieval layer on pgvector, and two Laravel SaaS products built from an empty repository.

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Paying customers served
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Years building for the web
AI focus

AI I Have Shipped to Production

Live features used by real customers, not side experiments

WP User Frontend

AI Form Builder

20,000+ installs

Describe a form in plain English and get a working post or registration form. One provider layer behind it spans OpenAI, Anthropic Claude and Google Gemini, with model selection, temperature control, token limits, API key masking and connection testing, plus AI integrations for WooCommerce, EDD and The Events Calendar.

OpenAIClaudeGeminiPHPReact
weDocs AI SaaS

RAG retrieval layer

pgvector

Moved the docs SaaS onto PostgreSQL with pgvector: per tenant embedding tables, IVFFlat cosine indexes, text-embedding-3-small embeddings, content hash checks that skip re-embedding unchanged documents, and gpt-4o-mini answers grounded in the retrieved context.

RAGEmbeddingspgvectorPostgreSQLLaravel
TubeOnAI

AI content pipeline

10%–20% faster API

Video to knowledge pipeline: summaries with detail level and tone modes carried through audio and translation, mind map generation, timestamped transcripts with in app editing, Azure OpenAI alongside bring your own key paths, and GPT-5 model variants, on a queue hardened with Redis locks.

OpenAIAzure OpenAILaravelRedis
weDocs

AI summaries & vision

5,000+ installs

AI document summaries with plan gating for the knowledge base plugin, and image analysis with vision models inside the documentation editor.

LLMVision modelsReact
WP Project Manager

AI project & subtask generators

5,000+ installs

Turn a short brief into a structured project: AI project, chat and subtask generators, with the AI settings screen that configures them.

LLMPHPReact
WP ERP Recruitment

AI CV analysis interface

React

The React interface for AI CV analysis with weighted candidate scoring inside the recruitment module.

ReactREST API
Work tools

My Technical Skills

Daily drivers, with how long I have used each

P
PHP & WordPress
plugins, REST, Gutenberg
5 yrs
L
Laravel
SaaS, APIs, queues
5 yrs
R
React
admin apps, Inertia
4 yrs
TS
JavaScript & TypeScript
ES6+, Node.js, Next.js
5 yrs
W
WooCommerce
integrations, payments
3 yrs
DB
MySQL & PostgreSQL
schema design, tuning
5 yrs
CI
GitHub Actions
release pipelines, SVN deploys
2 yrs
PW
Playwright
end to end suites in CI
2 yrs
Our services

What I Do

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LLM features built into real products: natural language generation behind one provider layer (OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini), retrieval augmented answers on pgvector, vision model analysis, and the settings, key handling and plan gating that make them safe to ship.
OpenAIClaudeGeminiRAGpgvector
Plugins built to WordPress.org standards: REST endpoints with real permission checks, Gutenberg blocks, React admin screens, internationalisation with RTL, and a release pipeline that publishes to the plugin repository. I have taken a plugin from first commit through the WordPress.org review process to publication on my own.
PHPREST APIReactGutenbergPHPCS
Checkout, subscription and payment flows wired into WooCommerce, Easy Digital Downloads and PayPal, including recurring payments, coupon tracking, invoice emails and plan gating.
WooCommerceEDDPayPalSubscriptions
Multi tenant applications from an empty repository to production: tenancy and subdomain resolution, plan gating with usage metering, queued jobs and exports, and deployment on Laravel Forge. Two of these are live right now.
LaravelInertiaReactQueuesForge
Legacy interfaces moved onto React and a shared design system, with dark mode, RTL and accessibility passes. On the backend I profile and remove hot spots, which on one product cut average API response time by 10% to 20%.
ReactDesign systemRTL / i18nProfiling
Live ratings

How My Plugins Score

User ratings from the WordPress.org plugin API

4.6
weDocs
68 reviews
4.4
WP ERP
149 reviews
4.1
WP User Frontend
535 reviews
3.8
Project Manager
187 reviews
Working process

How I Work

[001]

Scope

Work out what the client actually needs and what done looks like, before any code.

[002]

Build

Ship in small reviewable pieces, following the platform's own coding standards.

[003]

Test

Automated end to end runs in CI, plus a security pass over permissions and inputs.

[004]

Release

Tagged release through a pipeline, with a changelog and a rollback path.

Featured work

My Work Showcase

Live and public. Install counts and ratings from the WordPress.org API

WordPress plugins at weDevs

WP User Frontend

wordpress.org/plugins/wp-user-frontend

20,000+ installs★ 4.1/5 from 535v4.3.13

What I built:

  • The AI Form Builder, from the ground up: natural language generation of post and registration forms, a predefined template library, and a multi provider layer spanning OpenAI, Anthropic Claude and Google Gemini with model selection, temperature control and API key masking.
  • The React migration against a Figma redesign: the settings screen, the form builder and all ten post and registration templates.
  • A hook based User Directory with six layouts, then faceted filtering, member tags, an A to Z index and shareable filtered URLs in Pro.
  • Seven login form layouts, the SEO Settings module, recurring payments, paid guest posts and invoice emails.
  • The GitHub Actions pipeline that publishes every tagged release to the WordPress.org SVN repository.
PHPReactTailwindWooCommerceLLM APIs
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WP ERP

wordpress.org/plugins/erp

5,000+ installs★ 4.4/5 from 149v1.17.10

What I built:

  • Rebuilt the HRM admin from Vue to React on a new erp/v2 REST API: employee profile, leave, payroll, recruitment, org chart and a custom field builder.
  • Took the HR Frontend employee self service module to 100% React, then extended it with documents, a permissions UI, head count reporting and termination and rehire flows.
  • The React CV analysis interface in recruitment, plus dark mode, Arabic RTL, skeleton loading and accessibility passes.
  • A one command Vue and React release build that refuses to deploy unless every bundle compiles.
PHPReactREST APIVueRTL / i18n
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WP Project Manager

wordpress.org/plugins/wedevs-project-manager

5,000+ installs★ 3.8/5 from 187v4.1.0

What I built:

  • Restyled Kanban, Gantt, task detail and role scoped dashboards onto a shared design system, and moved Kanban from Pro into the free core.
  • An AI project, chat and subtask generator.
  • GitHub two way sync, the Kanboard Pro module and a Summary Reports overhaul.
  • Security fixes: a SQL injection in the task query and a sensitive data exposure in the /pm/v2/users endpoint.
PHPReactDesign systemAISecurity
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weDocs

wordpress.org/plugins/wedocs

5,000+ installs★ 4.6/5 from 68v2.6.0

What I built:

  • A seven level drag and drop documentation hierarchy, a search modal, a print block and social sharing.
  • AI document summaries and vision model image analysis, a FAQ section with its shortcode, selectable docs URL structures, GDPR handling and an admin analytics dashboard.
  • The retrieval layer for the weDocs AI SaaS: a migration to PostgreSQL with pgvector, per tenant embedding tables with IVFFlat cosine indexes, content hash change detection to skip re-embedding, and chat answers grounded in the retrieved context.
PHPReactPostgreSQLpgvectorRAG
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FlyHR

FlyHR

built solo

wordpress.org/plugins/flyhr

v0.1.0published August 2026

What I built: the whole plugin, from the empty repository to publication.

  • A dependency injection container and REST foundation, employees, departments, designations, financial years and holidays.
  • A leave engine with policies, an entitlement ledger and background processing, all behind a single React admin app.
  • A Playwright end to end suite and PHPCS in CI, then two WordPress.org review rounds handled on my own through to approval.
PHPReactPlaywrightCI / CD
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Release engineering

across the plugin line
47 of 129 tagged releases cut by me in 12 months
  • Every WP User Frontend, WP Project Manager and weDocs release, free and pro, since June 2026.
  • Built the pipelines that ship them: a GitHub Actions deploy to the WordPress.org SVN repository, plan zip builds with artifact verification, and Playwright suites sharded across CI matrix jobs.
GitHub ActionsSVNPlaywrightCI / CD

SaaS products, built from scratch

Sellbuddy home page

sellbuddy.co

What I built: a multi tenant commerce platform where every seller gets a storefront on their own subdomain.

  • Subdomain shop resolution, a template registry and theme resolver, and a full storefront section editor.
  • A media library, per shop localisation with RTL, and Laravel Forge deployment.
Laravel 12InertiaReactMySQLForge
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FlyForms home page

flyforms.co

What I built: a drag and drop form builder SaaS, end to end.

  • Workspace and organisation tenancy, plan gated routes with usage metering.
  • The builder, a conditional logic engine, and a respondent runtime with validation and anti spam.
  • Response analytics with queued exports, a template gallery and embeddable forms.
LaravelInertiaReactTypeScriptQueues
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Earlier roles and client work

TubeOnAI

Senior Full Stack Developer

tubeonai.com · Feb 2025 to Aug 2025, part-time from April

  • Redesigned the backend architecture and REST APIs of an AI video summarisation platform, cutting average API response time by 10% to 20%, and shipped a public Developer API.
  • Built the summary engine's detail level and tone modes across summaries, audio and translation, plus mind map generation and timestamped transcripts with in app editing.
  • Ingestion through yt-dlp and a scraper with transcript fallback, and Azure OpenAI alongside bring your own key paths.
  • Hardened the job queue with Redis locks and background multi video processing, and added Grafana metrics.
LaravelNext.jsRedisOpenAIGrafana
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Nextbit Technologies

Software Engineer

nextbit.io · Aug 2024 to Jan 2025

A Sydney based software studio building commerce platforms, apps and its own SaaS products.

  • Built WCStudio, a SaaS for building and hosting WordPress websites, from scratch in Laravel: snapshot management, server configuration and server management comparable to FlyWP and XCloud.
  • Integrated Next.js frontends with Laravel backends across client projects.
LaravelNext.jsWordPressServer automation

Bdtask

PHP Developer

bdtask.com · Sep 2022 to Jul 2024

Customised and shipped seven white label enterprise products for overseas clients, rebuilding commercial Laravel and CodeIgniter platforms around each client's operation.

  • Hospital and clinic system for Lavender World Medical Clinics, Saudi Arabia, delivered over 15 months: Arabic RTL, branch scoped accounts, asset accounting, scheduled jobs, medical notes and reporting. Base product
  • GOLD Business ERP with production and CRM modules and real time gold price integration for retail pricing. Live demo
  • Restaurant and POS across three deployments (Restora POS, Al Kebab and a Laravel rebuild): chart of accounts, voucher approvals, Excel exports, full Arabic and RTL. Base product
  • Bus reservation and ticketing: payment handling, ticket date logic and multilingual support. Base product
  • Multi branch hotel accounts with branch to main server synchronisation.
PHPLaravelCodeIgniterMySQLArabic RTL

Jan 2021 to Aug 2022

  • Progressed across four consecutive terms: web developer intern at App Atlantis, intern then junior full stack engineer at Drawhouse, then web application developer at App Atlantis.
  • Delivered full stack features with Laravel and React across ERP, POS, accounts and reporting systems.
  • Reworked the reporting dashboards, cutting manual processing time by 25%.
LaravelReactMySQLSQL Server
Resume

Experience & Education

Mar 2026 to Present · Full-time

Software Engineer II

weDevs, Dhaka
  • Own the AI layer across the weDevs product line and lead the React modernisation of its WordPress products, at 35,000+ installs and 10,000+ paying customers.
  • Built two Laravel SaaS products from scratch, Sellbuddy and FlyForms, and took FlyHR solo through WordPress.org review to publication.
  • Own release engineering: 47 of 129 tagged releases in 12 months, and the pipelines behind them.
Apr 2025 to Feb 2026 · Full-time

Software Engineer

weDevs, Dhaka
  • Built the AI Form Builder in WP User Frontend and its multi provider LLM layer.
  • Built the weDocs AI SaaS retrieval layer on PostgreSQL and pgvector.
  • Patched a SQL injection, a sensitive data exposure, a broken access control and a capability check flaw across the suite.
Feb 2025 to Aug 2025 · Part-time from April

Senior Full Stack Developer

TubeOnAI
  • Redesigned the backend and REST APIs, cutting average response time by 10% to 20%, and built the AI content pipeline.
Aug 2024 to Jan 2025 · Full-time

Software Engineer

Nextbit Technologies
  • Built WCStudio, a Laravel SaaS for building and hosting WordPress sites, with server management comparable to FlyWP and XCloud.
Sep 2022 to Jul 2024 · Full-time

PHP Developer

Bdtask
  • Customised and shipped seven white label enterprise products for overseas clients: hospital, gold retail ERP, restaurant POS, bus ticketing and hotel accounts.
Jan 2021 to Aug 2022

Intern to Web Application Developer

App Atlantis and Drawhouse Dhaka
  • Four consecutive terms. Laravel and React features across ERP, POS, accounts and reporting; cut manual report processing time by 25%.

Education

M.Sc. in Computer Science & Engineering

Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET)
Ongoing, from July 2023

B.Sc. in Computer Science & Engineering

BRAC University, 2017 to 2021
CGPA 3.66 / 4.00

Higher Secondary Certificate

Tejgaon College, Dhaka, 2016
GPA 5.00 / 5.00

Secondary School Certificate

Bangladesh International School & College, Riyadh, 2014
GPA 4.75 / 5.00
Question & answer

Frequently Asked Questions

Yes. I am open to remote roles and project work. Email me at hoquea57@gmail.com and I will reply with availability.

Every install count, rating and version here comes from the public WordPress.org plugin API, and each project links to its own page so you can check it yourself. My commit history is public at github.com/arifulhoque7.

Yes for WooCommerce: I have built checkout, subscription and payment integrations against it, along with Easy Digital Downloads and PayPal. With page builders my experience is compatibility and performance work on Elementor inside a plugin, rather than building client sites in it, and I am happy to say so up front.

Dhaka, Bangladesh, which is UTC+6. I have worked with distributed teams and can overlap with European and US mornings when a role needs it.

Contact

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