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Building secure, fast, and maintainable web platforms.

I help businesses move from fragile WordPress & PHP stacks to modern Next.js experiences. I'm a Web Engineer with 4+ years of production experience — I migrate, optimize, and operate websites so they stay fast, measurable, and secure.

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Security Advisory — October 2026

Critical PHP vulnerabilities: what business owners need to know

In October 2026, two critical remote-code-execution vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, widely referred to as PHP2Shell) were disclosed in PHP. These flaws affect virtually every web-facing PHP installation going back many years, including the majority of WordPress sites. Within hours of public disclosure, millions of exploit attempts were observed across the web, and many organizations took sites offline as a precaution while emergency patches were applied.

Even after patching, the episode highlights a deeper problem: legacy PHP/WordPress stacks remain high-maintenance and high-risk. Plugin ecosystems, shared hosting configurations, and tightly coupled frontends make rapid, reliable security response difficult.

How I help right now

  • Assess your current WordPress/PHP exposure and apply emergency hardening where needed
  • Plan and execute a clean migration to a modern Next.js frontend (with headless CMS where it makes sense)
  • Preserve SEO, content, and business workflows during the transition
  • Set up modern deployment, monitoring, and analytics so future incidents are easier to handle

If your business still runs on traditional WordPress or custom PHP, this is a strong moment to evaluate a more resilient architecture.

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(01)How I approach modernization

From legacy websites to maintainable modern platforms.

I work across the full web stack — not only the frontend. That includes CMS architecture, custom functionality, hosting and deployment, performance, analytics, SEO, and the operational details that keep a production website reliable.

Legacy WordPress

Heavy plugins, tightly coupled frontend, difficult-to-maintain customizations.

Modernized stack

Next.js frontend, headless CMS where appropriate, reusable components, and a cleaner deployment workflow.

Website performance

Slow assets, unnecessary scripts, rendering bottlenecks, and inconsistent mobile performance.

Optimization approach

Measure first, then address rendering, assets, caching, third-party scripts, and infrastructure bottlenecks.

Tracking and analytics

Inconsistent events, noisy traffic, or unreliable lead attribution.

Optimization approach

Structured GTM/GA4 events, cleaner data flows, custom integrations, and validation of conversion tracking.

(02)Services

What I work on

Modernization

WordPress → Next.js Modernization

Migrate existing WordPress, Elementor, or monolithic PHP sites to a modern Next.js frontend without losing content or business processes.

  • Content & SEO-preserving migration
  • Headless CMS integration (Storyblok)
  • Cleaner deployment (Vercel / GitHub Actions)
  • Reduced plugin surface & security risk

Development

Custom Web Development & Integrations

Production-grade React / Next.js development, custom functionality, and API integrations — with custom JavaScript/PHP where needed.

  • Responsive UI implementation
  • React / Next.js development
  • Custom WordPress functionality
  • REST / API integrations

Web Operations

Performance, Analytics & Web Operations

Core Web Vitals, GA4 + GTM conversion tracking, technical SEO, hosting/DNS troubleshooting, and ongoing reliability.

  • Core Web Vitals / performance work
  • GA4 & Google Tag Manager
  • Technical SEO
  • Hosting, DNS, SSL & troubleshooting

(03)Selected Work

Selected work & production problem-solving.

A few examples of production work spanning modernization, integrations, performance, and analytics.

WordPress ModernizationMulti-Environment

WordPress / Multi-Environment Modernization

The Challenge

Fragmented deployment environments hosted across external Netlify repositories created staging conflicts and slowed down editorial content workflows.

What I Changed

Consolidated fragmented deployment and content workflows into a more consistent Next.js, Storyblok, GitHub, and Vercel setup. Built reusable components so the marketing team could launch and update pages more efficiently.

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99/100

Mobile performance score

65%

Faster publishing lifecycle

Reduced

Ongoing server-management overhead

API IntegrationLocal Search

Google Places API & Local Search Integration

The Challenge

The website needed dynamically refreshed business information and customer reviews without making the initial page load unnecessarily heavy.

What I Changed

Built a Next.js server-side route to retrieve and cache Google Places API data, then exposed the content to the frontend while keeping rendering and SEO in mind.

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<100ms

Cached API response time

Rich

Snippets in Google results

AnalyticsBot Mitigation

Bot-Traffic Mitigation & GA4 Clean-Up

The Challenge

Automated traffic was distorting direct-traffic and conversion reporting, making it difficult to interpret campaign and website performance.

What I Changed

Analyzed traffic patterns and logs, improved GTM event logic, and applied filtering and validation within the analytics pipeline.

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98%+

Artificial traffic filtered from reporting

Restored

Usable conversion reporting

(04)Why Migrate Now

The case for moving now.

Security risk surface shrinks dramatically when you move the public frontend off PHP

Performance and Core Web Vitals become far easier to control

Editorial and marketing teams gain faster, more reliable publishing workflows

You stop fighting plugin conflicts and shared-hosting limitations

Future security patches and feature work become simpler

(05)Tech Stack

Technologies I work with

Frontend

  • JavaScript
  • TypeScript
  • React
  • Next.js
  • HTML
  • CSS / Tailwind

CMS & Web Platforms

  • WordPress
  • Elementor
  • Storyblok
  • Headless CMS concepts

Integrations & Analytics

  • REST APIs
  • Google Tag Manager
  • Google Analytics 4
  • Conversion / event tracking

Infrastructure

  • Vercel
  • GitHub / GitHub Actions
  • Domains / DNS / SSL
  • Hosting & deployment

Currently deepening

  • Node.js
  • PostgreSQL
  • Advanced TypeScript
  • React architecture
Jason Alam
Jason Alam — Web EngineerWordPress · Next.js · Web Operations · Performance · Analytics

(06)About Jason

“Understand the problem, choose the simplest architecture that solves it, measure the result, and keep it maintainable.”

I'm Jason Alam, a Web Engineer with 4+ years of hands-on experience building, troubleshooting, and modernizing production websites.

I began with WordPress and Elementor, solving real frontend and CMS problems for international clients. Over time that work expanded into custom JavaScript/PHP, hosting & DNS, performance, analytics, conversion tracking, and technical SEO.

More recently I've focused on migrating production WordPress environments to Next.js + headless CMS architectures with modern deployment pipelines. I also use AI tooling for prototyping and acceleration — while remaining responsible for testing, understanding, and shipping the final result.

(07)Contact

Ready to modernize — or need help with the current PHP risk?

Whether you want a full WordPress → Next.js migration, a performance & analytics overhaul, or an urgent security assessment of your current PHP/WordPress stack, send me a short note. I reply to every serious inquiry.

Location
Remote — serving clients in Canada, Europe, and global markets
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