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Al Amin Ahamed · 12 years shipping Laravel platforms, WordPress products, and TypeScript systems. Now building with LLMs and agents — and writing about both.

PHP Laravel WordPress TypeScript Postgres AI · LLM Agents
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01 · Selected work

Things I've built

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2025 · Creator & Designer

This Portfolio (v2)

Laravel 13 personal site with a RAG-powered AI chat, Tailwind v4 dark design system, and a full admin panel.

Laravel PHP Tailwind CSS Alpine.js
2025 · Creator

Elementor MCP Server

Model Context Protocol server that lets Claude and other LLMs read and edit Elementor page layouts via natural language commands.

TypeScript Node.js MCP SDK Elementor API
2023 · Creator & Maintainer

EasyCommerce FakerPress

WordPress plugin that generates realistic fake test data for EasyCommerce stores — 14 data generators, WP-CLI integration, and 131 Playwright E2E tests.

PHP WordPress Faker WP-CLI
/Now

"Shipped: Portfolio v2 is live — Laravel 13, Tailwind v4, pgvector RAG pipeline, and a full admin panel. Building in public. At work: Leading a team of 6 at Codexpert. Shipped EasyCommerce FakerPress v2.1.0 — 14 data gene..."

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02 · Writing

Recent essays

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Apr 15, 2025
· 8 min read

Building a RAG Pipeline in Laravel with pgvector

How I built the AI chat on this site: chunking documents, generating embeddings with Voyage AI, storing them in pgvector, and answering questions with Claude.
Mar 20, 2025
· 10 min read

Laravel Queues at Scale: Lessons from 10 Million Jobs

Patterns and pitfalls I've learned running Laravel queues in production — from connection pooling and job chunking to dead-letter handling and zero-downtime deployments.
Feb 10, 2025
· 7 min read

Adding PHPStan to a WordPress Plugin (Without Losing Your Mind)

A practical guide to getting PHPStan running on a production WordPress plugin, including the stubs you need and the rules you'll want to ignore.
Dec 5, 2024
· 12 min read

Building a WooCommerce Payment Gateway from Scratch

Everything you need to know to build a production-ready WooCommerce payment gateway integration — checkout flow, webhooks, refunds, and subscriptions.

03 · AI playground

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Ollama embeddings · Ollama · pgvector. Cited answers, real code.

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04 · Stack snapshot

What I reach for

Full stack →
Languages
PHP TypeScript Go Python Rust
Frameworks
Laravel WordPress React Inertia.js Livewire Alpine.js Tailwind CSS
Databases
PostgreSQL MySQL / MariaDB Redis SQLite Meilisearch
AI / ML
Claude (Anthropic) Voyage AI LangChain / LlamaIndex pgvector Ollama OpenAI API
DevOps
Docker GitHub Actions Caddy Hetzner Cloud Supervisor Linux / Ubuntu
Tools
PhpStorm WP-CLI Pest PHPStan Laravel Pint Vite Playwright TablePlus Figma

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