Profiles

“I architect web platforms that handle 100K+ users, load 2x faster, and don’t break at 2 AM.”

For 12 years, I’ve been building web platforms — primarily WordPress, WooCommerce, and PHP — for enterprise clients across North America, Canada, UK, Australia, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. I’m the engineer teams call when a platform needs to scale, harden, or modernize — and lately, when they want AI woven into it without breaking what already works.

Contributing to the ecosystem:
▸ Author of ShieldScope – Site Security Scanner, published in the official WordPress.org plugin directory — a read-only security audit that scans WordPress sites for vulnerabilities, malware, outdated software, and misconfigurations
▸ Earlier: architected a custom WP framework that cut development time 50% across 200+ projects — still in production today

What I do:
→ Enterprise WordPress Architecture — WordPress VIP environments, custom themes and plugins, Gutenberg and Full Site Editing builds, WooCommerce at scale, REST API integrations. Cut page load times from 5s to 2.5s; CI/CD pipelines reduced deployment errors 70%.
→ Security & Performance — OWASP-class vulnerability remediation, multi-layer authentication, Core Web Vitals optimization (+35%), 99.9% uptime on production environments.
→ AI-Assisted Development — GenAI across the full lifecycle (research, estimation, coding, testing, deployment), custom instruction files, AI API implementations, workflow automation with n8n.
→ Tech Leadership — Promoted to build and lead Curotec’s WordPress practice from the ground up; built and ran an 80–90 project maintenance and support program with rapid-response security patching; concurrently managed 5–8 live client sites on active build and delivery engagements; led distributed remote teams across time zones, client estimations, production debugging, vague briefs → shippable architecture. Was also the team’s primary solution provider for client problems and first responder for urgent production issues, with a track record of fast diagnosis and resolution.

Background:
▸ Technical Lead at Curotec (Philadelphia), Sep 2021–Jul 2026 — promoted to build and lead the WordPress practice from the ground up; 7+ years remote, clients across North America, Canada, and Europe.
▸ Certified Advanced Professional WordPress Developer (Automattic); 3x WP VIP Certified: Architecture · Security · Performance
▸ OpenAI Partner Certified — AI Technical, AI Sales, ChatGPT Deployment & Codex Deployment Practitioner; Google Prompting Essentials
▸ Clients across the US, Canada, UK, Spain, UAE, Bahrain, and India
How I work: Ship it, measure it, improve it. Security and performance are part of the build, not something to fix later.

Open to: Senior/Lead WordPress Engineer, Technical Lead, WordPress Architect, and Staff/Principal Engineer roles — remote.

More: dhirenpatel.me · github.com/dhirenpatel22