Profiles

Bio

Full-stack developer based in Toronto, Canada, running Takumi Web Services since 2012. I work mainly with PHP, Laravel, and WordPress, building custom themes, plugins, and security tooling for small businesses and community organizations. Bilingual in English and Japanese, and active in Toronto’s Japanese business community.

最近はWordPressのセキュリティ関連プラグイン開発に力を入れています。

Interests

WordPress, PHP, Security

WordPress Origin Story

It all started when I was maintaining WordPress sites for local businesses in Toronto’s Japanese community. Fixing the same security issues over and over on client sites made me want to build tools that solve the problem properly instead of patching it each time. That’s what led to my current plugin work.

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CODE
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Plugin Developer
POLYGLOTS
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Translation Contributor '26

Current Job

Full-Stack Developer, Takumi Web Services
Jan 2012 – Present
Takumi Web Services · Freelance
Running a full-stack web development practice since 2012, specializing in PHP, Laravel, and WordPress. Building custom plugins, themes, and security tooling for small businesses and community organizations in Toronto, including a full audit-logged client approval portal and a WordPress security/access-control plugin currently in development for the .org directory.

Key Accomplishments

Maintained WordPress infrastructure for Toronto's Japanese business community for over a decade, combining bilingual client communication with hands-on security and performance work.
Developed WP Private Gate, a WordPress security plugin implementing site-wide authentication, REST API/XML-RPC lockdown, and IP-based brute-force protection — submitted to the WordPress.org plugin directory.
Built and shipped Parlour, a Laravel 11 + Vue 3 client approval portal with tamper-proof audit logging, deployed to production and published on GitHub.

Recent impact

Score weights high-impact work (commits, releases, approved translations, props) at 3x routine activity.

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Last 90 days
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Last 12 months
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Contributions

Type
September 2026
Sep 13 Sun · 11:21
Polyglots high
Translated 237 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
Sep 13 Sun · 08:24
Meta high
Wrote a new post, PTE Request for Takumi Vault…, on the site Translate WordPress:
PTE Request for Takumi Vault and Takumi Private Gate Hello Polyglots team, I am the…
Sep 13 Sun · 02:27
Plugins high
Committed [3693257] to Plugins SVN:
Tag 1.2.4
Sep 13 Sun · 02:26
Plugins high
Committed [3693256] to Plugins SVN:
Release 1.2.4: give the plugin its own admin menu
Sep 13 Sun · 02:06
Plugins high
Committed [3693248] to Plugins SVN:
Tag 1.2.0
Sep 13 Sun · 01:58
Plugins high
Committed [3693246] to Plugins SVN:
Release 1.2.0: let scheduled backups run at a chosen time of day
Sep 05 Sat · 20:23
Plugins high
Committed [3682796] to Plugins SVN:
Tag 1.1.0
Sep 05 Sat · 20:19
Plugins high
Committed [3682793] to Plugins SVN:
Add Takumi Vault 1.1.0 to trunk
Sep 05 Sat · 20:16
Plugins high
Committed [3682792] to Plugins SVN:
Add banner, icon, and screenshot assets
August 2026
Aug 20 Thu · 21:54
Plugins high
Committed [3657834] to Plugins SVN:
1.2.3: fix 2FA profile controls, count Application Password failures toward lockout, expire per-IP records

Developer

2 plugins

Translations

1 locale
ja 日本語 (Japanese) Translation Contributor