Sayed Ahmed

Building custom WordPress and Shopify websites

Sayed Ahmed

WordPress & Shopify Developer

WordPress developer, from Elementor sites to custom themes, Gutenberg blocks and plugins, plus Shopify Online Store 2.0 theme work. 20+ websites delivered for clinics, tourism, real-estate and e-commerce clients.

  • Mansoura, Egypt · On-site or hybrid in Cairo or Mansoura · Remote
  • Final-year Information Systems student, Mansoura University (graduating 07/2027)
  • Arabic (native) · English (limited working proficiency)
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Sayed Ahmed
20+websites delivered
2 yrsclient work
7case studies & projects
Selected work

Projects I built and improved

Each case study shows my role, what I built and the result.

Clinic website services page on desktop

Speed work on a live clinic website

Healthcare · Egypt · 2026 · Solo: performance audit and fixes

  • Performance fixes
  • Google Tag Manager clean-up
Live · address on request · screenshots

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Experience

Where I’ve worked

  1. 2026 – Present Full-time

    Marketplace Administrator

    Cairo, Egypt (on-site)

  2. 07/2026 – Present Freelance

    Freelance Web Developer (self-employed)

    Mansoura, Egypt (remote)

    Websites for clinics, tourism, real-estate and e-commerce clients in Egypt and Saudi Arabia, most of them for returning clients.

    • Built a tourism platform end to end, from interface prototype to custom WordPress theme, custom plugin, content and launch; every section is editable from the dashboard through custom blocks and fields.
    • Built a custom WordPress site for a car dealership in Saudi Arabia on the same block-based architecture (pre-launch; mobile performance being optimised before go-live).
    • Improved a live clinic website’s speed: home page PageSpeed score 56 → 90 on mobile and 89 → 100 on desktop (Aug → Oct 2026).
    • Built a clinic website in WordPress and cut server response time (TTFB) from 0.6 s to 0.1 s with server-level page caching.
    • Built a custom Shopify Online Store 2.0 theme with custom sections and blocks editable in the theme editor.
    • Restored 7 WordPress sites within one day after an admin account was compromised, then hardened them (login-attempt limits, read-only core files, hidden login URL).
  3. 01/2026 – 07/2026 Part-time

    Store Manager · Aqua Trek

    Mansoura, Egypt

    • Ran the store single-handedly: product catalogue, store pages and day-to-day performance.
  4. 08/2024 – 01/2026

    Web Developer · Taif

    Remote, with periods of full-time on-site work in Cairo

    • Built client websites as part of a team, working with a designer and other team members; my work was reviewed before delivery.
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Skills

What I work with

WordPress

  • custom classic and block themes (theme.json)
  • custom Gutenberg blocks
  • ACF/SCF and custom post types
  • plugin development
  • WooCommerce
  • Polylang
  • Elementor
  • WP-CLI
  • REST API

Shopify

  • Liquid
  • Online Store 2.0 sections and blocks
  • metafields
  • Shopify CLI

Front-end

  • HTML
  • CSS (Sass, Tailwind CSS)
  • JavaScript (ES6+)
  • GSAP
  • right-to-left (RTL) and bilingual layouts
  • React (basic)

Back-end

  • PHP
  • MySQL

Performance & SEO

  • Core Web Vitals
  • LiteSpeed Cache
  • Cloudflare
  • image optimisation
  • technical SEO
  • structured data
  • Google Search Console
  • Rank Math
  • Yoast

Hosting & security

  • SSH/Linux
  • cPanel/hPanel
  • DNS
  • site migrations
  • WordPress hardening
  • malware clean-up

Tools

  • Git
  • PHPCS (WordPress Coding Standards)
  • LocalWP
  • WordPress Playground
  • GA4
  • Google Tag Manager
  • Meta Pixel/Conversions API
  • AI coding assistants (Claude, ChatGPT)
About

A bit about me

I’m a WordPress and Shopify developer based in Mansoura, Egypt, and a final-year Information Systems student at Mansoura University (graduating July 2027).

I started taking client work in August 2024 and have since delivered more than 20 websites, from Elementor builds to fully custom WordPress themes that I design, develop and hand over myself. Running a store on my own for six months taught me to organise and prioritise work.

Outside work I play football and like time away from screens.

How I work

  1. I start by understanding the business goal and confirming the requirements in writing.
  2. I design the interface first and build only after it is approved.
  3. I build for editing: custom blocks and fields, so clients update their own content.
  4. I test on a local copy, keep the code in Git and check PageSpeed Insights on mobile and desktop before launch.
  5. I check the code of every new project against the WordPress Coding Standards with PHPCS.
  6. I use AI coding assistants throughout my work, and I review and test everything that ships.

Education & languages

B.Sc. Information Systems
Faculty of Computers and Information, Mansoura University · Expected 07/2027

Full-Stack Web Development, NTI (National Telecommunication Institute) · 2026

Public relations, fundraising and HR volunteer, Team Mega · 2024–2025

Arabic (native) · English (limited working proficiency)

Contact

Let’s talk

Building custom WordPress and Shopify websites. Email or WhatsApp is the fastest way to reach me; I reply within one working day (Cairo time).

Email me WhatsApp +20 106 437 6151