Hi, I’m Tareq Hasan. I’m an engineer, a builder and an 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.
From one person to a hundred
I founded weDevs during my undergraduate years as a one-person company. It grew into a global product company serving 520k+ customers across 160+ countries, and at its peak into a team of 100 people.
Most of what followed was born out of need. A problem worth solving became a product, and when the product outgrew its home it became a company of its own. Dokan, WP ERP, FlyWP, Klasio and weLabs are all part of that family.
Others came from collaborating with fellow founders, which is how I came to co-found them: Sokrio in distribution software, Enzaime and Rx71 in healthcare, and TEDFO in export trade. The newest, Safura, makes pure, natural food in Naogaon, Bangladesh.
The full list is on the home page.
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.
Across all of these companies, 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.
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.
PHP has been home for a long time. 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.
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.
Speaking
I have spoken at a few conferences and meetups.
- 2015 · e/f-Commerce Meetup: building e-commerce websites with WordPress
- 2014 · WordPressian Meetup: How to upload your plugin to WordPress.org
- 2014 · CMS Developers Conference: Composer, the package manager for PHP
- 2011 · phpXperts seminar: WordPress theme and plugin development best practices
Recognition
- 2015 · weDevs won the BASIS award in the Startup Company category. BASIS is the national software industry association.
- 2015 · Named in Future Startup’s 15 Under 35 list of entrepreneurs in Bangladesh, along with an interview.
- Profiled in “টেকি সফল উদ্যোক্তার গল্প” (Successful Tech Entrepreneur Stories), a Bengali book by Nazmus Sakib about 25 young tech entrepreneurs from Bangladesh.
This blog
This site is where I share parts of the journey. Most posts are technical; some are reflections from building and running products over the years.
If you care about craftsmanship, ownership, and building things that last, you’ll probably feel at home here.