Himad Mouhtar

Senior Web Engineer · WordPress & WooCommerce · Madrid

I'm a Senior Web Engineer focused on WordPress and WooCommerce. Over 7+ years I've worked on enterprise projects and contributed to plugins used by millions, across payments, performance, large migrations, and more recently AI-driven features.

personal-projects/

PixelHawk

visual regression testingin development

Catches unintended visual changes in web interfaces. Its diffing is shift-aware, so it stays quiet and does not cry wolf.

Barney

voice-driven coding agentpersonal project

A coding agent that runs in a sandbox. You talk to it and it does real engineering.

experience.log

Senior Web Engineer · Syde GmbH

Sept 2022 to Present · Remote

  • Primary technical contact on enterprise WordPress projects running on WordPress VIP.
  • Developed and integrated 5+ WooCommerce payment gateways.
  • Maintained plugins with 2M+ combined downloads.
  • Led the syde.com migration to a fully block-based theme with custom Gutenberg blocks in React.
  • Mentored engineers, maintained CI/CD and testing standards.

Web Engineer · SaasAlerts

Jun 2021 to Sep 2022 · Remote

  • Led a DDD modernization enabling Google Cloud serverless auto-scaling, improving response times by 40%.
  • Built a synchronization module handling 10M+ daily records for an events observability system.

WordPress Developer · Toptal

Jul 2020 to Jun 2021 · Remote

  • 10+ WordPress client projects as a vetted freelance engineer.
  • Custom themes with WooCommerce optimization for stores handling 10k+ products and 500+ daily orders.

WordPress Developer · Alvea

Jan 2018 to Jul 2020 · Madrid

  • Built and maintained 20+ WordPress sites end to end.
  • Ran self-hosted infrastructure on AWS and DigitalOcean at 99.9% uptime.

professional-work/