Freelance WordPress and WooCommerce Developer
Surat, Gujarat, India · UTC+5:30
Devansh Thakkar is a freelance wordpress and woocommerce developer based in Surat, Gujarat, India. He has 7+ years of experience, has delivered 250+ projects for clients in 15+ countries, and holds Top Rated status on Upwork with a 100% job success score. He specialises in WordPress performance, WooCommerce, and technical SEO, and works directly with every client rather than through an agency.
In plain terms: I make WordPress sites fast, fix the ones that are broken, and build the ones that need to rank. Most of my work arrives as a problem rather than a brief, which suits me. A site that loads in seven seconds, a WooCommerce checkout losing people, organic traffic that fell off a cliff after a relaunch. Those are the jobs I am good at.
I work alone, deliberately. There is no account manager between you and the person writing the code, nobody gets swapped onto your project halfway through, and when you ask a technical question you get a technical answer the same day.
| Full name | Devansh Thakkar |
|---|---|
| Profession | Freelance WordPress and WooCommerce Developer |
| Location | Surat, Gujarat, India |
| Time zone | UTC+5:30 |
| Working since | 2020 |
| Experience | 7+ years |
| Projects delivered | 250+, across 15+ countries |
| Upwork status | Top Rated, 100% job success score |
| Education | BCA in Computer Science, Swami Vivekananda College |
| Languages | English, Hindi, Gujarati |
| Specialisms | WordPress performance and Core Web Vitals, WooCommerce, custom theme development, technical SEO, schema markup |
| Works with | Direct clients, agencies as a white-label developer, referrals |
| Typical reply time | Within 24 hours on weekdays |
Everything above is checkable on platforms I do not control, which is the point. The reviews on Upwork cannot be edited or deleted by me, and the project history is dated.
Short version: I started by fixing other people's WordPress sites at an agency, and never really stopped.
First professional role. Built and maintained WordPress sites for agency clients, which is where the troubleshooting habit came from: inheriting other people's builds and making them work.
Bachelor of Computer Applications, studied alongside client work rather than instead of it.
Full-time freelance, working directly with clients in 15+ countries through Upwork, agency partnerships and referrals. Reached Top Rated status on Upwork with a 100% job success score.
Work shifted from building sites to making existing ones fast and findable. Core Web Vitals, schema architecture, and the kind of WooCommerce problems that only appear at scale.
Roughly half my work is building something new and half is fixing something that is slow, broken or invisible in search.
This is the bulk of it. Speed optimisation and Core Web Vitals, usually on sites where previous attempts have plateaued. The distinction that matters most here is lab data against field data: a site can score 95 in PageSpeed Insights while real visitors wait four seconds, and almost every unsuccessful optimisation round I inherit was aimed at the wrong number.
Store development and the problems that only appear at scale: filters that take three seconds, faceted navigation generating tens of thousands of junk URLs, checkouts that lose people at the payment step.
Custom themes written without a page builder where performance matters, custom plugins when no existing one does the job cleanly, and redesigns that keep the rankings the old site earned.
SEO approached as development rather than plugin configuration. Schema emitted from the theme rather than a plugin, internal linking that follows the site architecture, and the groundwork that decides whether good content can rank at all.
I work in Elementor, Bricks and Divi, and I will tell you when a builder is the wrong tool for what you are building. A marketing site that changes weekly is a good case for one. A storefront with a performance budget usually is not.
Shopify, Webflow and Squarespace are not what I work in day to day. Neither is custom application development that happens to sit on WordPress. If that is your project I would rather say so than learn on your budget.
Claims on your own website are worth very little on their own, so here is where to check them.
If something here does not match what you find elsewhere, tell me and I will fix it. Consistency across sources is the whole point of this page.
If I am not the right person for your project I will say so on the first call rather than quote for it. A referral costs me nothing and a bad fit costs us both a great deal.
Free 30-minute call, no pitch. Bring the URL and the problem and you get a straight answer about whether it is fixable and roughly what it costs.
