Yusuf yusuf-saif

👨🏾‍💻 About Me

I build things with PHP — mostly Laravel apps and WordPress/WooCommerce systems — and I manage the people and timelines that get them shipped. Wearing both hats means I write the code and feel the deadline, which has made me allergic to clever solutions nobody can maintain in six months.

Lately I'm pulled toward complex system design, architecture that survives growth, and the AI/RAG layer sitting on top of it all.

<?php

namespace Yusuf;

final class Profile extends Developer implements ProjectManager
{
    public string $role = 'Software Dev & Technical PM';

    public array $stack = [
        'backend'  => ['PHP', 'Laravel', 'MySQL'],
        'frontend' => ['JavaScript', 'TypeScript', 'Alpine.js', 'Livewire'],
        'cms'      => ['WordPress', 'WooCommerce', 'Joomla'],
    ];

    public array $learning = [
        'Complex system design',
        'Architecture patterns',
        'RAG pipelines',
        'AGI (and where this is all going)',
        'Random rabbit holes',
    ];

    public string $funFact = 'oh chim 😅';

    public function askMeAbout(): array
    {
        return ['PHP', 'WordPress', 'WooCommerce', 'CMS', 'Mental Health'];
    }

    public function currentStatus(): string
    {
        return $this->tea > 0 ? 'Shipping 🚀' : 'Rebooting ☕';
    }
}

⚡ Quick Snapshot


🔭 Building	WooCommerce extensions & a few micro-SaaS experiments
🌱 Learning	Complex system design, architecture, RAG, AGI
👯 Collaborating on	Open source PHP / WordPress / WooCommerce projects
🤝 Want help with	Cloud (AWS / Azure / GCP patterns), advanced infrastructure
💬 Ask me about	PHP, WordPress, WooCommerce, CMS, Mental Health
🧭 Working style	Ship small, document as you go, no heroics
⚡ Fun fact	oh chim

🎯 What I Actually Do

🛠️ Build

Laravel applications, WooCommerce extensions, custom WordPress plugins and themes. Backend-heavy, API-first, tested where it counts.

📋 Manage

Scoping, sprint planning, and translating between "what the client said" and "what we can actually ship this quarter."

🧠 Advocate

Mental health in tech isn't a perk — it's infrastructure. Happy to talk burnout, boundaries, and sustainable pace.

🧰 Tech Stack

🖥️ Languages & Frameworks

🛒 CMS & E-Commerce

🤖 AI & Currently Exploring

Deep in RAG pipelines right now — chunking strategies, embeddings, and the unglamorous retrieval-quality work nobody demos.

☁️ Cloud & DevOps

🗄️ Databases & Search

🧰 Tools & Project Management

🚀 Featured Work

🌍 Open Source I Contribute To

🗓️ Daymark

Personal Site Publisher Mode for WordPress — a phone-first PWA at /daymark that makes posting to your own site as fast as a social app, with a REST API, optional AI Assist, and social replies flowing back as native comments.

🕌 IslamicHub

Open-source Islamic education and utility platform covering the Five Pillars, with a multi-asset Zakat calculator on live market prices, an astronomical prayer-time engine, a Fara'id inheritance calculator, and a Qibla finder.

📊 GitHub Stats

🧊 My Year in 3D

🐍 Watch the Snake Eat My Commits

🏆 Trophies

🧠 On Mental Health

I talk about this openly because silence in this industry is expensive. Burnout doesn't announce itself — it shows up as a Friday deploy you can't remember writing, or a standup where you've stopped caring what breaks.

If you're a dev, a PM, or somewhere in between and you want to talk to someone who feels both sides of the pressure, my inbox is open. No agenda, no billing.

📬 Let's Talk

Your code will outlive this sprint. Take care of the person writing it.

⭐ From yusuf-saif — let's build something useful together.

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