Piyush Asthana

I am a WordPress Developer with 7+ years of experience in building, customizing, and maintaining high-performance websites. My expertise lies in custom theme development, plugin development, and scalable WordPress solutions.

Professional Experience

• 7+ years of hands-on experience in WordPress development, focusing on scalable plugins, custom features, and high-performance websites.

• Strong expertise in custom plugin development, using modern PHP practices such as:
  • Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)

  • Namespacing

  • Composer-based workflows

• Experience building and customizing plugins that:
  • Integrate with third-party APIs

  • Optimize website performance

  • Improve overall user experience

• Skilled in MySQL optimization, REST API development, and handling complex data structures within WordPress.

• Deep understanding of WordPress core concepts, especially effective use of hooks like init for:
  • Registering custom post types

  • Managing taxonomies

  • Structuring scalable functionality

• Comfortable working across the full stack:
  • JavaScript (ES6, jQuery)

  • Build tools (Webpack, Gulp)

  • Git-based version control workflows

• Experience in fast-paced environments:
  • Debugging critical issues

  • Building features from scratch

  • Ensuring code quality and backward compatibility

Master of Computer Applications - MCA, Computer Applications

Mangalayatan University, Aligarh 01/2022 - 01/2024

Bachelor of Computer Application, Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management University of Lucknow 01/2015 - 01/2018

Intermeadiate, Junior High/Intermediate/Middle School Education and Teaching

Maharaja Agrasen inter college 01/2012 - 01/2014

High School

Manvata Model Public Inter College 01/2010 - 01/2012