Adil Elsaeed
Software engineer
I build web products on WordPress and PHP, and put AI to work inside the development cycle itself.
Custom plugins, integrations and LMS work for WordPress and WooCommerce — plus performance work that runs from the query to the server config. Eleven years in web development, eight of them in WordPress.
Focus
WordPress plugins and integrations · WooCommerce · LMS platforms
Experience
11+ years in web development, 8+ of them in WordPress, including tech-lead roles
Stack
PHP · JavaScript · React · MySQL · REST API · Gutenberg · LEMP
AI
Used daily for planning, writing and reviewing code, and testing — and to build features inside products
Languages
Arabic native · English professional working level
Status
Available for new projects · Remote from Cairo (UTC+3)
Selected work
Zatca QR Fatora
WooCommerce plugin
Merchants in Saudi Arabia must attach a ZATCA-compliant QR code to every invoice. I built a plugin that generates the code to the authority’s spec and attaches it to WooCommerce orders automatically, with no manual setup.
Advanced Regrader for LearnDash
Open-source tool
When you fix a wrong answer in a LearnDash quiz, every past score stays wrong — and a naive script over thousands of attempts takes the server down. I built a tool that simulates the new scores first, then regrades in background batches of fifty, staying clear of execution-time and memory limits.
Irshad Platform
Education platform
The electronic guidance platform for Sudanese pilgrims: awareness material and guidance courses covering the pilgrimage, built on WordPress with an LMS and a content admin.
How I work with you
Custom plugins and themes
From an idea to a stable, maintainable plugin: WordPress APIs, Gutenberg blocks in React, ACF field work, and code that survives peer review.
Integrations and systems
Connecting WordPress to what surrounds it: ZATCA e-invoicing, payment gateways, LearnDash, Tutor LMS and Moodle, and REST interfaces to outside systems.
AI-accelerated development
AI tools sit inside my workflow: reading unfamiliar codebases, generating and reviewing code, writing tests — so projects land faster without loosening human review. I also build language-model features inside WordPress.
Performance and hardening
Finding where the slowness actually lives: heavy queries, fighting plugins, or server config. I tune LEMP and caching, and review code for vulnerabilities.
Tech leadership and consulting
Architecture review before the code is written, code review after it is, and leading development teams — what I have done for years as a tech lead.
Products
Saudi e-invoicing — ZATCA
Two ready plugins that bring your store in line with ZATCA requirements — one for WooCommerce, one for Easy Digital Downloads. Install and run, no custom development.
About Adil
I started freelancing on the web in 2013 and have moved between developer and lead roles since: tech lead at One Pharma, senior WordPress developer at Untap Technologies, lead developer at Ar-themes. The work I enjoy most tends to start with someone saying it cannot be done in WordPress.
Outside client work I founded WooArab and WPAraby to bring WordPress and WooCommerce closer to Arabic-speaking developers, publish open-source tools on GitHub, and write about the problems I hit in production.
Postgraduate
MSc Computer Software Engineering — Cairo University
Undergraduate
Computer and Mathematical Science — University of Khartoum
Community
Founder of WooArab and WPAraby
Open source
github.com/adilelsaeed
Let's talk about your project
Describe the problem in a few lines — what is broken, or what you want built — and I will tell you plainly whether I am the right person for it.