Open to interesting problems
Lukman Nakib
I build and scale software products.
WordPress product engineer & technical lead. I build and scale Fluent Forms — a form builder on 700K+ active sites — and other products at WPManageNinja. I care about the parts that keep working after hundreds of thousands of sites depend on them.
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
all →Selected work
all →- 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 · 700K+ active installs 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
all →- 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.
- 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.
- 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.