About Me

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Hi, I’m Tareq Hasan.

I’m a software engineer, product builder, and entrepreneur. I’ve been building things on the web for more than 16 years, mostly by starting from scratch, shipping early, learning from real users, and improving over time.

I didn’t enter tech through buzzwords or hype cycles. I learned by writing code, breaking systems, fixing them, and doing it again. That approach still defines how I work today.

How I Build

At my core, I’m an engineer and a product person. Building things excites me.

I like taking ideas from zero to something real. That usually means shaping the idea, designing the system, writing the first version, deploying it, maintaining it, and keeping it alive until it’s stable enough for a team to take over. That’s how most of the products I’ve worked on were created.

I work across backend, frontend, and infrastructure. I don’t see these as separate jobs. I see them as parts of the same responsibility: ownership.

Technically, PHP has been home for a long time. Open source still matters to me. WordPress gave me a global playground early in my career, while Laravel and React allow me to build structured, modern SaaS systems beyond plugins and themes. I care deeply about performance, architecture, maintainability, and building systems that last longer than trends.

weDevs and Beyond

I founded weDevs during my undergraduate years as a small experiment while learning and freelancing. Over time, it grew into a global product company serving hundreds of thousands of users across more than 140 countries, with a distributed team of 90+ people.

Through weDevs and beyond, I’ve co-founded and helped build multiple companies and products across SaaS, eCommerce, developer tools, education, healthcare, and enterprise software. Some of these grew under the weDevs ecosystem, while others were independent ventures.

Across all of them, my role has been consistent:

  • Product vision and direction
  • Technical architecture and early implementation
  • Shipping the first real version and stabilizing it

Once a product reaches maturity, I step back and let teams scale it further.

Open Source and Community

Open source shaped my career. WordPress, in particular, gave me access to a global ecosystem early on. I’ve contributed to WordPress core and served as a Bengali WordPress locale maintainer.

Open source taught me long-term responsibility. Real software isn’t just written, it’s maintained, supported, and improved while people depend on it.

This Blog

This site is where I share parts of my journey.

Most posts are technical. Some are deep dives into systems, infrastructure, or architecture. Others are reflections from building and running products over the years. I write primarily for myself and for people who enjoy practical, real-world software engineering.

If you care about craftsmanship, ownership, and building things that last, you’ll probably feel at home here.

Speaking

I spoke at few events, conferences and meetups.

Recognition