Brownstone NYC
Senior WordPress Developer
Led custom WordPress development and maintenance for clients in real estate, finance, consulting, and professional services.
Follow the projects and technologies ↗Senior Full Stack Developer
A technical partner for work that matters.
Christian Lugatiman builds the business websites, WordPress systems, PHP applications, and connected workflows behind better day-to-day operations.
Senior Full Stack Developer · WordPress Developer · AI Specialist
My story
One practice. More than one kind of system.
Christian’s professional record spans full-stack university systems from June 2018 to December 2022, alongside freelance and contract work from July 2020 onward. The documented experience covers WordPress, PHP, Laravel, JavaScript, APIs, and relational data.
That range includes HR operations, institutional publishing, business and marketing applications, custom WordPress websites, and managed hosting. The timeline preserves the overlap between full-time and contract engagements.
The verified resume reflects work with clients and organizations across Australia, the United States, and the Philippines.
The throughline is problem solving. Understand what people are trying to do, make the important state visible, choose a proportionate architecture, and leave the next maintainer a system they can understand. That means performance, security, accessibility, SEO, responsive behavior, testing, and QA are part of the work rather than a final layer of polish.
AI-assisted development is used responsibly as a force multiplier for exploration, documentation, and iteration. Decisions still need to be grounded in the code, the requirements, the evidence, and the people who will operate the result.
Christian holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Southeastern Philippines.
What clients can expect
Clear thinking before unnecessary complexity.
A senior developer who can work close to the interface, deep in the PHP, or across the boundary between the two.
Career snapshot
Experience with range, grounded in the work.
8+
years of development experience
3
markets represented in the resume
2
core engineering lanes: WordPress + PHP
Caravea Pty Ltd
Senior WordPress Developer
Senior WordPress development for Australian caravan, RV, and automotive brands.
Follow the projects and technologies ↗Heaviside Digital
WordPress Developer
WordPress development for digital marketing agencies and local businesses.
Follow the projects and technologies ↗Torro Media
WordPress Developer
WordPress development for content-rich web projects.
Follow the projects and technologies ↗Core expertise
The strongest capabilities, shown in proportion.
WordPress and PHP are the center of gravity. Laravel, full-stack application work, and integrations extend the practice when the workflow calls for them.
Primary
WordPress Development
Custom themes, plugins, PHP, shortcodes, hooks, Elementor integrations, dynamic templates, AJAX, filters, inventory/model systems, brochure flows, performance, SEO, and accessibility.
Primary
PHP Development
Business logic, database-backed features, reusable components, integrations, and maintenance-minded extensions.
Secondary
Laravel & Full Stack
Business applications, protected administration, relational data, workflows, reporting, APIs, and server-rendered interfaces.
Supporting
Quality & Operations
JavaScript, React/Vue where supported, MySQL/MariaDB, hosting, performance, SEO, accessibility, and responsible AI-assisted development.
How I work
Good questions become useful systems.
The engineering sequence01 — 08
Understand / 1 of 8
Find the useful outcome.
Clarify the users, the current workflow, and the constraint worth solving.
Follow the connectionsModel / 2 of 8
Make the rules visible.
Define data, ownership, access, and the boundaries between responsibilities.
Follow the connectionsBuild / 3 of 8
Make a complete path work.
Connect interface, application logic, and data in the smallest useful implementation.
Follow the connectionsIntegrate / 4 of 8
Connect with clear boundaries.
Treat external services as independent systems. Account for invalid responses and unavailable providers.
Follow the connectionsAutomate / 5 of 8
Make repetition recoverable.
Give repeatable work explicit state, observable progress, and a safe path to retry.
Follow the connectionsValidate / 6 of 8
Test the paths that matter.
Check behavior, access rules, invalid input, keyboard use, and real interactions.
Follow the connectionsOptimize / 7 of 8
Measure. Then improve.
Find the bottleneck before choosing a fix. Consider rendering, assets, queries, and the user experience.
Follow the connectionsShip / 8 of 8
Prepare for the next change.
Review configuration, migrations, recovery, and the operating environment before delivery.
Follow the connections An engineering practice, connected to published work.
AI-assisted development
Tools accelerate.
Judgment decides.
Explore how AI can support the work while implementation and validation remain engineering responsibilities.
Explore the technical constellation ↗01Problem
Start with the question worth answering. Clarify the workflow, constraint, and acceptance criteria.
02AI exploration
Use ChatGPT, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or Cursor to explore options and investigate the problem.
03Engineering review
Check assumptions, inspect generated code, and make the implementation decision.
04Implementation
Adapt useful suggestions to the actual application and its existing conventions.
05Validation
Test behavior and edge cases. Review correctness, security, accessibility, and maintainability.
06Delivery
Review the complete change and document what the next person needs to understand.
Selected work
A few places where the approach becomes concrete.
business applications
Public projectEnterprise HRIS
Human resources, payroll, attendance, and personnel workflows
A Laravel and PHP business system supporting HR, payroll, attendance, leave, and employee information workflows.
PHP
Laravel
MySQL
APIs & integrations
Interactive demonstration
WordPress Custom Systems
Interactive demonstration
The project page and available links provide the public reference for this work.
What it covers
Custom themes and pluginsShortcodes and dynamic templatesAJAX, filters, and galleriesBrochures, caching, and Elementor
wordpress
WordPress Custom Systems
Reusable functionality for content-rich commercial sites
A body of WordPress and PHP work spanning custom themes, plugins, shortcodes, dynamic templates, AJAX, filters, galleries, brochures, caching, and Elementor integrations.
WordPress
PHP
JavaScript
Performance & caching
Interactive demonstration
Unified Messaging Portal
Interactive demonstration
The project page and available links provide the public reference for this work.
What it covers
Multi-channel workflowsInbox and campaign conceptsAPIs and webhooksScheduled processing
integrations
Unified Messaging Portal
Multi-channel communications and campaign workflows
A Laravel/PHP portal integrating messaging and campaign workflows across email, SMS, and WhatsApp-related operations.
PHP
Laravel
JavaScript
APIs & integrations
Have a workflow worth improving?