
Anju Patel
Senior WordPress Developer | WordPress Engineer | Technical Lead
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About
Senior WordPress Developer with 8+ years of experience building and maintaining enterprise and publishing websites using WordPress, PHP, JavaScript, and modern web technologies. Strong experience developing custom themes, plugins, reusable components, WordPress APIs, REST API integrations, Gutenberg, ACF, and complex website functionality. Experienced in technical leadership, debugging, performance optimization, security, responsive development, code quality, Git-based workflows, deployments, and troubleshooting complex WordPress issues.
Comfortable working with distributed teams, managing multiple priorities, and collaborating with developers, QA, design, SEO, and project management teams.
Experience
Full Stack WordPress Developer | Technical Delivery at CurrentWare Inc. (2025-05 – 2025-07)
- Developed and maintained custom WordPress websites, themes, plugins, and landing pages using PHP, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, Elementor, and Divi.
- Implemented custom WordPress functionality, APIs, forms, integrations, and reusable components.
- Debugged WordPress Core, theme, plugin, responsive, integration, and performance issues.
- Optimized websites for page speed, Core Web Vitals, caching, and mobile performance.
- Worked with staging environments for testing, troubleshooting, and production deployments.
- Collaborated with design, SEO, content, and marketing teams to deliver technical solutions and website improvements.
Senior WordPress Developer | Technical Project Lead at NewsCorp India (2022-03 – 2025-05)
- Developed and maintained enterprise publishing websites for Dow Jones, The Wall Street Journal, The TLS, and News Corp.
- Developed custom WordPress functionality using PHP, JavaScript, jQuery, AJAX, REST APIs, and WordPress APIs.
- Built and customized WordPress themes, plugins, templates, Gutenberg components, and reusable content systems.
- Worked extensively with WordPress Core, Hooks, Actions, Filters, ACF, custom post types, and dynamic content.
- Designed technical solutions for complex requirements and contributed to architecture and implementation decisions.
- Debugged complex WordPress, plugin, integration, browser, and production issues and supported timely resolution of client requirements.
- Optimized websites for performance, Core Web Vitals, scalability, accessibility, and security.
- Used Git-based workflows and supported staging, production deployments, migrations, backups, hosting, DNS, and SSL/TLS.
- Collaborated with developers, QA, designers, SEO, project managers, and other teams to deliver large-scale website initiatives.
PHP / WordPress Developer | Project Coordinator at Prologic Web Solutions Pvt. Ltd. (2017-03 – 2022-03)
- Developed 70+ WordPress and WooCommerce websites, including custom themes and plugins.
- Developed WordPress functionality using PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, jQuery, AJAX, HTML5, CSS3, and WordPress APIs.
- Customized WordPress Core functionality, themes, plugins, templates, ACF fields, and custom post types.
- Integrated REST APIs, third-party services, forms, and external systems.
- Worked with Elementor, WPBakery, Divi, Genesis, Gutenberg, and premium WordPress themes.
- Debugged and resolved functionality, compatibility, performance, and responsive issues across browsers and devices.
- Managed Git, hosting, migrations, backups, SSL, DNS, deployments, and post-launch maintenance.
Education
B.E. in Computer Science & Engineering – Lakshmi Narain College of Technology (LNCT), Bhopal (2011 – 2014)
