Usman Ali Qureshi

Owned the quarterly release cycle for the 18 products outside the flagship RealHomes theme, at an Envato Power Elite shop with 60,000+ portfolio sales. RealHomes alone has 34,000+ sales. My title on record stayed Happiness Engineer while the role grew into development, code review and release ownership.

• —Built RealHomes Instant Search from scratch in 2022: Ajax property search with MapBox map results, agency filtering, list and grid layouts, and pagination that keeps browser history correct.
• —Built OTP verification for login and registration, shipped in releases 4.5.1 and 4.5.2.
• —Reviewed and merged pull requests from other developers every release cycle, and acted as QA lead across the whole portfolio, a function nobody else in the company covered.
• —2,316 commits across the product repositories, 1,306 of them to the RealHomes theme as one of 27 contributors, with 290 pull requests merged.

Handled the hardest customer problems and wrote the fixes, contributing directly to the theme and plugin codebases from 2016.

• —Diagnosed deep PHP conflicts, MySQL database errors and server bottlenecks for customers across the product portfolio.
• —Patched theme and plugin code directly, so recurring bugs were fixed at the root instead of the symptom.
• —Release scope shifted towards what customers were actually asking for rather than generic feature work.

Two products of my own, designed, shipped and maintained, both sold on one-time paid licences.

• —SnipIt (snipit.app), since 2024: screenshot and screen-recording SaaS. I designed the product and built the web application in PHP with auth, dashboard, admin panel, APIs, MySQL over PDO and Bunny media delivery.
• —MacStats (macstats.app), since 2026: macOS system monitor with AI explanations. I built the licensing system, the per-licence AI usage metering and the model-call proxy behind it.
• —Both ship with their own licensing, billing and update infrastructure.

Twelve engagements over twelve years for the vendor behind software that runs on millions of servers.

• —Converted the cPanel and WHM control panel interfaces into interactive HTML, CSS and JavaScript demos used for end-user education.
• —Work spans releases from 11.54 through v56, v62, v78 and v84.
• —Built and maintained the public trycpanel.net demo.

114 completed contracts, Top Rated, 100% Job Success Score, for clients across the US, UK, Europe and Asia.

• —Security and server recovery: cleared a WordPress infection with four separate persistence layers from a Plesk/AlmaLinux VPS, rebuilt the backup system, then tuned PHP, OPcache, Redis and page caching.
• —Migrations, DNS and SSL, Cloudflare setup, Fail2Ban and SSH hardening.
• —Custom plugins, WooCommerce work and third-party API integrations.

Sole architect and developer of gosh-int.com, an industrial web platform built from scratch.

• —Designed and built gosh-int.com end to end: architecture, database schema, backend and frontend.
• —Wrote GoshAdmin, a custom CMS in PHP 8.4 on OOP and SOLID principles rather than an existing framework.
• —Tailwind CSS and vanilla JavaScript frontend with automated deployment.

Started the company's web design and development department, which did not exist before I joined, and grew it into a revenue-generating unit.

• —Managed two designers and three to five developers while working as project manager, customer support and developer myself.
• —Won and delivered client projects sourced through Elance.