About

Developer first. Marketer by necessity. Manager by experience.

Fifteen years from a freelance desk in Sylhet to consulting for law firms in England. Still writing code every week.

Numan Hussain
Based
England,
UK
UK on-site, hybrid, or remote worldwide
15
years shipping, since Elance in 2013
250+
completed Upwork contracts
700+
projects delivered through Devute
3
products taken from MVP to app stores

The short version.

I started on Elance in May 2013, building pixel-perfect WordPress themes from PSDs for clients I never met. Over the next eight years that became 250+ contracts on Upwork, and the work moved from pages to platforms: APIs, infrastructure and the front-ends on top of them.

In 2020 I joined Worldview International Group on contract and was soon handed Find Visa Counsellor to lead, then Worldview Pro. Both went from MVP to live products on web, iOS and Android. At Staff Asia I ran a team of WordPress and Laravel developers.

In 2022 I founded Devute, a studio where a cross-functional team has delivered 700+ projects. I stepped back from the directorship in 2026 and advise from behind the scenes. Today I consult, most recently embedded with Din Solicitors across marketing and development, and I teach through Everskill.

My career

2013 to today.

Ten roles · newest first
2025 —
Digital Marketing & Web Development Consultant
Din Solicitors · Halifax · Hybrid
Embedded with a law firm to rebuild its web presence and run SEO and paid acquisition. The model for how I now work with firms: one consultant across marketing and development.
2022 —
Founder, now Advisor
Devute · Bradford · Hybrid
Built and led a cross-functional team of designers, developers and marketers to deliver 700+ projects. Stepped back from the directorship in 2026.
2023 – 25
Senior Software Developer
Worldview (UK) Limited · London · Remote
Technical lead on custom web applications: architecture, sprint coordination, code review and mentoring a distributed team. Nuxt.js, WordPress and Laravel on AWS and DigitalOcean.
2024
WordPress Developer & Digital Marketing
Chatterbug Ltd · Leeds · Part-time
Maintained several WordPress sites, set up Google Analytics and Workspace, ran SEO audits and supported campaign planning.
2021 – 23
Project Manager & Full Stack Developer
Worldview Pro · Remote · Freelance
From MVP onward: APIs, infrastructure and front-end for a product that launched on web, iOS and Android.
2020 – 23
Project Manager & Full Stack Developer
Find Visa Counsellor · Remote · Freelance
Led the overhaul from Bootstrap to Nuxt.js, replaced Twilio with a custom Adonis.js chat system and redesigned the product. Four mobile apps shipped.
2020
Team Leader & Project Manager
Staff Asia · Sylhet · Remote
Joined as Senior WordPress Developer in March; promoted to lead a team of WordPress and Laravel developers by May.
2020
Web Application Developer
Findadmission.com · Worldview International Group · Remote · Contract
First engagement with the group, contributing to existing projects before being handed Find Visa Counsellor.
2015 – 21
Full Stack Developer
Upwork · Bangladesh · Remote
Over 250 completed contracts for international clients after Elance and oDesk merged into Upwork.
2013 – 15
Front-end & WordPress Developer
Elance, then oDesk · Bangladesh · Remote
Started freelancing in May 2013. Pixel-perfect WordPress themes from PSDs for US clients, AngularJS, jQuery and Git.

Three disciplines, one person.

Development

Since 2013

Full-stack on PHP and Node: Laravel, Nuxt.js, WordPress at scale, REST APIs, AWS and DigitalOcean. Architecture, code review and the boring parts that keep a product up.

LaravelNuxt.jsNode.jsWordPressMySQLAWSCI/CD

Marketing

Since 2016

SEO, paid search and social, analytics and reporting. Learned running growth for my own clients, now applied inside firms that need the web to produce enquiries, not traffic.

SEOGoogle AdsMeta AdsGA4Tag ManagerConversion tracking

Leadership

Since 2020

Leading distributed teams of 3 to 10: hiring, sprint planning, written updates, mentoring. Comfortable reporting to partners and founders who do not want jargon.

Team leadProject managementHiringMentoringAgileClient reporting

What I reach for.

Languages & frameworks
PHPJavaScriptTypeScriptLaravelAdonis.jsNode.jsVueNuxt.jsReactWordPressWooCommerce
Infrastructure
AWS (EC2S3CloudFront)DigitalOceanCloudflareMySQLRedisGitHub ActionsDocker
Marketing & analytics
Google AdsMeta AdsGA4Tag ManagerSearch ConsoleLooker StudioMailchimpHubSpot
AI & workflow
OpenAI and Claude APIsn8nMakeRetrieval pipelines and internal agents for supportintake and reporting

Want the long version over a call?

Thirty minutes, no pitch. Tell me what you are trying to do.