Web Developer & Designer in Toronto — Websites, Stores & Software

Web developer & designer · Toronto & the GTA

Websites, stores and software that earn their keep.

Eighteen years of building the thing a business actually needs — then handing over the keys. Fixed quotes agreed before the work starts. Nothing bundled you did not ask for. You own every file at the end.

Available for new projects Fixed quotes No pitch decks You own the result
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What I do

Thirty-two services, in four categories

Most projects use two or three of them. Nothing is bundled — if you need a faster store and nothing else, that is the whole job.

A designer working on a website layout
Websites & Stores · 6 services

The stack

Built on the tools your business already runs on

Eighteen years across the WordPress, PHP and JavaScript ecosystems — plus the mobile and AI platforms behind the newer work. Nothing proprietary, nothing you cannot hand to another developer.

See what I build with them →
WordPress WooCommerce Elementor PHP JavaScript MySQL Node.js React Flutter Swift Kotlin Joomla Stripe Google OpenAI Cloudflare GitHub Docker TypeScript Next.js Vue.js Tailwind CSS Laravel Python Shopify Figma Amazon Web Services Anthropic PostgreSQL GraphQL Redis Linux

WordPress ecosystem

WooCommerce, Elementor, Rank Math and custom plugins — extended properly through the APIs rather than bolted on with more plugins.

AI platforms

Agents, integrations and automations built on the major model APIs, wired into the systems you already use every day.

Beyond the browser

The other half of the work is not a website at all

A good share of what I build never renders in a browser tab. If your problem is a process rather than a page — someone re-typing orders into a spreadsheet, a system that will not talk to another system — this is the part that applies.

01

Software & AI

Custom AI agents, AI integrations and AI-powered software, plus workflow automation for the processes that currently eat someone's entire afternoon.

  • AI agents
  • AI integrations
  • Workflow automation
  • API development
02

Platforms & plugins

Custom WordPress plugins, Joomla modules and advanced CMS functionality — including commercial templates and plugins sold on other platforms.

  • WordPress plugins
  • Joomla modules
  • CMS functionality
  • Commercial templates
03

Mobile

Native and cross-platform apps for the cases where a website genuinely is not the right answer, built to share a back end with whatever you already run.

  • Swift
  • Kotlin
  • Flutter
  • React Native

Four stages, one joined-up process

You always know what happens next

Good projects do not disappear into a black box. The deliverables change from job to job, but the rhythm stays the same: understand the problem, make the plan visible, build in the open, then improve on what real users teach us.

01

Start with the real problem

We talk about your customers, current bottlenecks, business goals and what success needs to look like. No proposal arrives before the problem is clear — and sometimes the honest answer is that you do not need a new website at all.

  • Business goals
  • Audience
  • Current bottlenecks
  • Success measures
02

Turn direction into a roadmap

You get a practical scope, priorities, milestones and a clear recommendation on the right technology — in language you can act on. Decisions that are expensive to reverse get made here, while they are still cheap.

  • Scope
  • Priorities
  • Milestones
  • Tech recommendation
03

Build, test and refine

Design, development, integrations, content and SEO are shaped together rather than handed between silos, with review points along the way. You see working pages early, not a reveal at the end.

  • Design
  • Development
  • Integrations
  • Content & SEO
  • Review points
04

Launch with a next step

We handle the final checks, go live carefully, and leave you with a site that can keep improving. Launch day is a milestone in the plan — not the moment I stop answering the phone.

  • Pre-launch checks
  • Careful go-live
  • Handover
  • Measurement
Where it starts

A great idea starts here

Every project on this page began as a sentence somebody said out loud. The work is turning that into something that runs, earns its keep, and still belongs to you afterwards — in four steps.

Step 01 · Websites & Stores

The public face of the business

Sites and online stores built around your offer, your audience and the one action you actually need them to take — not around a template that happened to be for sale.

Step 02 · Software & Applications

When the problem is a process, not a page

Custom applications, APIs and platform work for the jobs a website cannot do — replacing the spreadsheet nobody trusts and the system that will not talk to the other system.

Step 03 · AI & Automation

The work that eats an afternoon

Agents, integrations and automations wired into the tools you already run, built on the major model APIs — so the repetitive part stops costing you a person's day.

Step 04 · Growth & Care

What happens after launch day

Local SEO, speed, analytics, security and maintenance. The part that decides whether the thing you paid for keeps earning — measured rather than guessed at.

Choose your starting point

The process adapts to your goal

Use the paths below to see what the first conversation normally covers. You can switch between them without leaving the page.

Make the first impression work harder

We map your offer, audience and conversion path, then build a fast, responsive website that makes it easy for the right people to take the next step.

The first conversation covers

  1. Who you need to reach, and what should happen when they arrive
  2. Which pages actually earn their place
  3. What the site must do that the current one cannot
Custom website design →
Placeholder — new website

A modern build needs a strong foundation

Designed for people, search engines and real devices

Three things get checked on every project before it is called finished, because they quietly decide whether the site earns its keep.

Performance

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Core Web Vitals are treated as a build requirement, not a report you read afterwards. Fast pages convert better and rank more easily.

Accessibility

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Keyboard navigation, real contrast and sensible structure — so the site works for everyone who lands on it, on any device.

SEO foundations

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Clean markup, correct structured data, a sane URL structure and internal linking that helps search engines understand the whole site.

Built to hold up. Every project is scoped, priced and handed over the same way — so the thing you paid for still works, still loads fast, and still belongs to you long after launch day.

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Selected work

What the last eighteen years look like

A booking portal that replaced a shared spreadsheet. Staff scheduling, customer bookings and invoicing in one place, built to survive the busiest week of the year.

A trades business that stopped losing quote requests. A rebuilt enquiry path, clearer service pages and a form that actually reaches the inbox.

Found for the searches that bring customers. Service pages rewritten around real local intent, with the technical foundations to match.

A store that stayed fast as the catalogue tripled. Template rebuild, query tuning and image handling, so checkout held up through a seasonal spike.

An agent that handles the first reply. Enquiries triaged, answered and routed automatically, with a human handover the moment it matters.

A half-finished build, picked up and shipped. Someone else walked away mid-project. Audited, repaired, documented and launched.

Talk about your project

About

Hi — I am Milad

Toronto, Ontario

I am a Toronto-based programmer and full-time software developer with 18 years of professional experience building custom digital solutions. Most of that has been with small and mid-sized businesses who needed one person to take the whole thing seriously rather than a team who each owned a slice of it.

The work splits roughly in two. On one side, websites for businesses across Toronto and the GTA: design, development, local SEO, e-commerce and the ongoing care that keeps them working. On the other, software — AI agents, integrations, automations and applications for the problems a page cannot solve.

All of it is built with the same priorities: scalability, clean architecture, usability, and whether it actually works for the business paying for it.

Questions

The things people ask before we start

A good fit is as much about working style as technical skill. These come up in almost every first conversation.

How much does a website cost in Toronto?
It depends on what it has to do, which is why the quote comes after the first conversation rather than off a price list. What I can promise is that the number is fixed against an agreed scope before any work begins, so the final invoice matches the one you approved.
Do I need to know exactly what I want before we talk?
No. Bring the business problem, the current site, or even a rough idea scribbled on the back of something. The first conversation exists to clarify the opportunity and work out what should happen next — not to extract a decision from you.
Can you work with the website I already have?
Yes. Often the right answer is to improve what is there rather than start again. We can strengthen the current structure, rebuild only the parts holding you back, or plan a careful migration when a fresh start genuinely is the better option.
What do I own when the project finishes?
Everything — the site, its assets, the code, and a clear handover so another developer could pick it up tomorrow. Ongoing maintenance, SEO and development support are available if you want them, but never a condition of getting your own work.