Senior Software Engineer & Team LeadTechsa, Lahore

Fakhar
Ul Islam

I've built and run more than 1,500 websites since 2018. Every lit screen in this city is one of them.

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Websites shipped

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2018Every lit screen is one of them

01Publisher · WordPress

The site that wouldn't load

A content site timing out under its own weight.

Time to first byte
6.2s0.21s
Queries / page
21231

WordPress · PHP 8 · MySQL · Redis · Cloudflare

02E-commerce · WooCommerce

The WooCommerce checkout problem

Carts were full. Orders weren't.

Checkout interactive
4.1s1.2s
admin-ajax calls / checkout
383

WooCommerce · PHP · JavaScript · Stripe · REST API

03Agency · 12 WordPress sites on one box

The server that needed saving

One VPS, twelve sites, zero headroom.

Load average
20+1.4
Server upgrade
3× costnot needed

Linux · Nginx · PHP-FPM · MariaDB · Redis · Cloudflare

04Directory site · ACF

The 200K+ postmeta problem

When wp_postmeta becomes the database.

Filter query
8.4s38ms
Rows examined
1.2M~900

WordPress · ACF · MySQL · Custom tables · WP-CLI

05The Archive

Everything else, on file.

Two more case studies, written the same way — the problem, the fix, the numbers — and six recent builds.

  • The multilingual relationship problem
  • The design that needed to convert

06The Lab · what I do

Everything a website needs to stay up.

  • 01Interface
  • 02Engineering
  • 03Infrastructure
  • 04Delivery

Inside, one page request runs through a WordPress stack. Switch on the caches and watch it get faster.

07The Studio · experiments

Built to be taken apart.

Each key runs on this page, for real. Esc puts it all back.

08Control Center · systems

The machinery, live.

A working shell, an x-ray of this page and a desktop OS. The wall outside is measuring this page as you read.

09The Office · about and contact

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Fakhar Ul Islam

Senior Software Engineer & Team LeadTechsa, Lahore

Eight years at one company, from intern to team lead. I scope, review and ship — and run the servers underneath.

fakhardev@gmail.com

Designed, built, and kept in the air.

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Fakhar City

Choose a place to go there. Esc closes the map.

A 3D city, at night until you change the time of day. Every lit screen is one of the more than 1,500 websites Fakhar has shipped since 2018. Its places are listed on the map: four case studies, the Archive, the Lab, the Studio, the Control Center and his office, where six cards on his desk say who he is and how to reach him.

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fakhardev@gmail.comFakhar Ul Islam · Senior Software Engineer · Lahore

Fakhar Ul Islam — senior software engineer and development team lead

8+ years and more than 1,500 websites, from Techsa in Lahore: WordPress and WooCommerce, Shopify and Webflow, PHP and MySQL, React and Next.js, and the Linux servers, DNS and mail they run on.

This site is a city you can travel through: case studies, capabilities, experiments and his office, where six cards say who he is and how to reach him. A plain-text version with the case studies and contact details is at /plain.