I’m Dhanendran Rajagopal, a software engineer with 13+ years of experience building for the web. I currently work at Fueled, and over three companies I’ve worked across WordPress and Drupal, Node.js microservices, and front-ends in React, Angular, and Next.js. WordPress is where I go deepest — but the throughline of my career has been the same regardless of stack: designing systems that stay maintainable under real traffic and real teams.

My focus is the unglamorous part that decides whether a site lasts: API design and versioning, content modeling, caching strategy, observability, and the editorial experience that content teams actually live in. I care about systems that stay maintainable long after launch — and that survive the upgrade, the traffic spike, and the team you’ll never meet who inherits your code.

This blog is where I work those ideas out in the open: lessons from production, things I got wrong, and patterns worth reusing. Alongside it I ship open-source WordPress plugins — small, focused tools that solve problems I kept hitting myself.

When I’m not doing that, I’m still coding at midnight — old habits.

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