Vishwa Upesh
Engineering Lead | Product Web Platform | WordPress Systems Architect | Platform Scale & Performance | AI-Driven SDLC | SaaS & Agency Specialist
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Full-stack engineer with 12+ years of experience scaling enterprise CMS, performance-driven marketing platforms, and developer tooling across high-growth B2B SaaS and agencies. I’ve evolved from executing complex, large-scale system migrations to architecting both high-availability backend infrastructure and seamless frontend user experiences. By leading and building cross-functional engineering squads, I drive measurable business outcomes across the entire stack from reducing backend API latency by 50% and improving platform stability through robust SRE practices, to driving aggressive Core Web Vitals (CWV) optimizations that drastically enhance client-side performance. Also focusing on WCAG compliance along with building Themes and Plugins from scratch. My recent focus is on AI-augmented full-stack development. I have spearheaded strategies to integrate AI safely and effectively into the SDLC. By engineering custom Figma-to-MCP (Model Context Protocol) server pipelines and structured SDD frameworks, I’ve bridged the design-to-code gap, automating frontend component scaffolding and accelerating overall team velocity by 25% while maintaining strict deployment governance. I partner with leadership, PMs, QA and designers, authoring technical RFCs to ensure architecture aligns with business goals. I bridge the gap between backend optimization (object caching/cloud) and pixel-perfect, responsive frontend interfaces. I thrive where end-to-end performance matters, balancing infrastructure cost-efficiency with modern AI orchestration. Open to WordPress Architect, technical strategy and full-stack engineering leadership roles with opportunities to drive systemic scaling and innovation. 𝐓𝐄𝐂𝐇𝐍𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐋 𝐒𝐊𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐒 𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬: Custom theme & plugin architecture, WP-CLI, WP-REST-API, WordPress Hooks & Filters, Gutenberg (API v3), WPML, WooCommerce, ACF, WPBakery. 𝐏𝐇𝐏 & 𝐁𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐧𝐝: PHP (PSR-4, OOP, Composer), MySQL, PHPUnit, REST API. 𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐝: HTML5, CSS3, Sass, JavaScript (ES6+), Vanilla JS, jQuery, React/JSX, Gutenberg block development (@wordpress/scripts), Flexbox, CSS Grid, WCAG 2.1 Accessibility. 𝐀𝐈 & 𝐌𝐂𝐏: Model Context Protocol (MCP), AI Orchestration, GitHub Copilot, Structured Design Document (SDD) frameworks, WP Agents. 𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐎𝐩𝐬 & 𝐈𝐧𝐟𝐫𝐚: Git, GitHub Actions, Jenkins (Groovy), Docker, WPEngine, AWS, Webpack, Gulp, npm. 𝐎𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲: Sentry, Amplitude, GA, Facebook Analytics, Slack webhook alerting, page speed monitoring. 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐓𝐨𝐨𝐥𝐬: JIRA, InVision, Figma, Confluence.
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Created ticket #6774 on Meta Trac:Suggestion for Image upload type3 years ago
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Created a topic, Fatal Error : ndexable_Hierarchy_Builder::build(), on the site WordPress.org Forums:Below are the my site current version and status: Wor…4 years ago
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Committed [2496141] to Plugins SVN:Tested with latest WordPress version 5.7 hence updated the readme.txt5 years ago
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Committed [2398913] to Plugins SVN:Updated sanitize function6 years ago
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Committed [2398825] to Plugins SVN:Updated as per the mentioned commnents.6 years ago
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Enterprise-grade Gutenberg Post Grid (API v3/React). Implements advanced Data Fetching, State Management, React Hooks, and Jest for unit testing complex components. Focused…
Cache Bundling helps us to perform several levels of optimization, which includes reducing file size, reduce in the number of network calls,…
Custom Gutenberg block built to modern API v3 standards. I focused heavily on making the editor experience feel native and ensuring the…
Advanced WordPress REST API extensions for headless architecture and enterprise data syncing
Professional Portfolio of Upesh Vishwakarma | Senior WordPress Engineer & Architect
These Jenkins scripts help you to trigger on any Github PR merge. This can help you to run any status check, CI/CD…
Enterprise-grade WordPress performance optimization patterns and high-efficiency code snippets.
This plugin helps fetch the data in table format from the endpoint with time intervals of one hour. Also, use WP-CLI command…