Deepak Nandhan

WordPress and PHP Developer with 3.5+ years of experience building, customizing, and maintaining WordPress websites and WooCommerce stores in a digital agency environment. Skilled in custom theme and plugin development, PHP/MySQL/SQL-based backend work, REST API integrations, and Gutenberg block development, backed by strong expertise in WordPress security hardening, performance optimization, and multi-site maintenance across 25+ client websites. Experienced managing full project lifecycles end-to-end, from local development and staging through hosting configuration and production deployment.

WordPress & PHP Developer - Zrava Creative Concepts Pvt. Ltd. - Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu

(2023-03)

• Develop and maintain custom WordPress themes and plugins using PHP, including theme template customization, plugin customization/development, custom post types/taxonomies, and Gutenberg blocks, for 25+ client websites across e-commerce, healthcare, and education sectors.
• Build and extend WooCommerce stores with custom product logic, payment gateway and shipping integrations, checkout/cart customization, and order-management workflows.
• Integrate the WordPress REST API and third-party APIs (payment, CRM, and booking systems), building custom endpoints and AJAX-driven features using PHP and $wpdb.
• Perform WordPress security hardening, malware detection/cleanup, and vulnerability assessments across the client portfolio, implementing firewall/WAF rules, 2FA, and brute-force/login protection.
• Optimize website performance through caching, CDN integration, image optimization, database cleanup, and query optimization, improving Core Web Vitals and PageSpeed scores.
• Manage centralized maintenance for 25+ live WordPress websites simultaneously, including core/plugin/theme updates, security patch management, uptime monitoring, and PHP error-log debugging.
• Own backup/disaster recovery (automated backups, verification, restoration) and lead WordPress/hosting migrations, staging-to-production deployments, and DNS/SSL changes with minimal downtime.
• Manage hosting environments on cPanel/Plesk with Apache/Nginx, PHP-FPM, and MySQL, handling server monitoring, cron jobs, SSH/Git-based deployment, and SLA-based maintenance reporting.

Master of Computer Applications (MCA) - Computer Science & IT - Jain University, Bengaluru (2024)

Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com) - Business Process Services (BPS) - PSG College of Arts and Science (2018)