Open to interesting problems

Lukman Nakib

I build and scale software products.

WordPress product engineer & technical lead. I build software that keeps working after hundreds of thousands of installs depend on it — most visibly Fluent Forms, a form builder on 700K+ active sites, plus other products at WPManageNinja.

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Now — building FluentPlayer & writing about engineering at scale.

Technologies & tools

Languages: PHP·JavaScript·TypeScript·SQL
Backend: WordPress·WPFluent·Laravel·REST APIs·MySQL
Frontend: Vue·Vite·Alpine·Tailwind
Testing & tooling: PHPUnit·Pest·Playwright·Git·Composer
AI: LLM apps·RAG / retrieval·Claude

Writing

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What maintaining a plugin on 700K+ sites taught me about backward compatibility 2025
Backward compatibility isn't politeness — at scale it's the difference between a release and an outage across hundreds of thousands of sites you'll never see.

Selected work

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FluentPlayer — turning a video player into an interactive, measurable system FluentPlayer · WPManageNinja 2025
A WordPress video player is usually a dumb embed — it plays, and that's it. FluentPlayer had to make video interactive (forms, CTAs, hotspots inside the frame), measurable (real engagement analytics), and source-agnostic (HLS, Mux, BunnyCDN, YouTube, self-hosted) without turning into three plugins.
Building an inventory system inside a WordPress form builder Fluent Forms · never oversells 2024
Forms that sell limited things — event seats, appointment slots, limited stock — need to stop accepting submissions once a quantity runs out, without a real database of "products."
What building 30+ SaaS integrations taught me about API abstraction Fluent Forms · 30+ integrations 2024
Every CRM, email tool, and payment provider wants to be integrated its own way. Wiring each one directly turns a form builder into a pile of bespoke, un-testable glue.
Validation across PHP, JavaScript, and REST — one set of rules, three runtimes 2024
A form validates in the browser for UX, on the server for safety, and over REST for programmatic submissions. Three implementations of the same rule drift, and the drift is always a security bug.

Projects

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JanteChai — a Bengali AI answer engine, with sources jantechai.bd 2025
An independent AI question-and-answer platform that answers in Bengali and cites where the answer came from. Built to make trustworthy AI answers accessible in a language most tools underserve.
Tab Pilot — a command palette for Chrome 2026
A keyboard-first command palette for the browser. Press ⌥K on any page to fuzzy-search every open tab, your history and bookmarks, run tab actions, do quick math, and expand text snippets. Local-first, no account, free.
Debug Log Manager — a published WordPress.org plugin wordpress.org/plugins/debug-log-config-tool/ 2026
A free plugin on the WordPress.org repository that lets developers toggle WP_DEBUG and related wp-config constants and read the debug log straight from the admin — no SSH or manual file edits.
Fluent Forms — a WordPress form builder on 700K+ sites wordpress.org/plugins/fluentform/ 2026
The WordPress form builder I help build and lead engineering on at WPManageNinja — used on 700K+ active sites. Free and open on the WordPress.org plugin directory.