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Portrait of Ariful Hoque

Lead AI/LLM Engineer

Ariful Hoque

Software Engineer II at weDevs who owns the AI layer and release engineering behind WordPress plugins with 35,000+ active installs.

Currently at
weDevs
Based in
Dhaka, Bangladesh
Experience
5+ years

Focus areas

  • AI/LLM integration and RAG
  • Backend architecture
  • WordPress plugin engineering
  • Release engineering
  • SaaS from scratch

Stack, by area

Frontend
  • React
  • Next.js
  • Vue
  • Inertia.js
  • TypeScript
Backend
  • Laravel
  • PHP
  • Node.js
AI
  • OpenAI
  • Anthropic Claude
  • Google Gemini
  • RAG
  • pgvector
Data
  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • Redis
Cloud & DevOps
  • Docker
  • GitHub Actions
  • DigitalOcean
  • Nginx
CMS
  • WordPress

Highlights, with sources

  • Owns the AI layer across a WordPress product line with 35,000+ active installs.

    github.com/arifulhoque7/arifulhoque7
  • Most of his merged pull requests land in weDevs's public WordPress plugins, led by WP User Frontend, WP Project Manager and weDocs.

    github.com/pulls
  • Merged the fix that restored saving in WP User Frontend's AI form builder.

    github.com/weDevsOfficial/wp-user-frontend/pull/1986
  • Shipped the WP Project Manager 4.1.2 release and merged a security fix so its validator runs only allowlisted rules.

    github.com/weDevsOfficial/wp-project-manager/pull/705
  • Merged a security fix scoping WP ERP's employee REST reads to object-level capability.

    github.com/wp-erp/wp-erp/pull/1639
  • Built FlyHR end to end and took it through the WordPress.org plugin review to publication.

    github.com/arifulhoque7/arifulhoque7
  • Delivered the AI layer in multi-provider form, spanning OpenAI, Anthropic Claude and Google Gemini, with RAG on PostgreSQL and pgvector.

    github.com/arifulhoque7/arifulhoque7
  • Describes the WP User Frontend AI Form Builder as built from the ground up, with a provider layer spanning OpenAI, Anthropic Claude and Google Gemini; his site lists 20,000+ installs for the plugin.

    arifulhoque7.github.io
  • Describes rebuilding WP ERP's HRM admin from Vue to React on a new erp/v2 REST API, and the retrieval layer for the weDocs AI SaaS on PostgreSQL with pgvector.

    arifulhoque7.github.io
  • Describes building two Laravel SaaS products from scratch, Sellbuddy and FlyForms, and cutting 47 of 129 tagged releases across WP User Frontend, WP Project Manager and weDocs in 12 months.

    arifulhoque7.github.io
  • Describes his earlier roles: Bdtask (PHP Developer, Sep 2022 to Jul 2024), Nextbit Technologies (Software Engineer, Aug 2024 to Jan 2025) and TubeOnAI (Senior Full Stack Developer, Feb to Aug 2025).

    arifulhoque7.github.io

Merged contributions outside DevWizard

325 merged pull requests across 7 outside repositories, from public GitHub data.

  1. weDevsOfficial/wp-project-manager

    chore(deps): apply the open Dependabot updates in one lockfile pass
  2. weDevsOfficial/wp-project-manager

    fix(security): run only allowlisted validator rules
  3. weDevsOfficial/wp-project-manager

    fix(db): drop GROUP_CONCAT SEPARATOR so PM runs on SQLite (Playground)
  4. weDevsOfficial/wp-project-manager

    release: v4.1.2
  5. weDevsOfficial/wp-user-frontend

    chore: add .wordpress-org with the live wp.org listing assets
  6. weDevsOfficial/wp-user-frontend

    ci: skip the wp.org asset sync until .wordpress-org exists
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Education

BSc in Computer Science and Engineering from BRAC University (2017 to 2021); MSc in Computer Science and Engineering at BUET, in progress since July 2023

Work with this team

Engagements run through DevWizard as one team, on a project contract or a monthly retainer.