# Syed Taqi (smtaqimz)

> Syed Taqi is a full-stack developer, server engineer and performance marketer working remotely with clients worldwide since 2019. He builds websites, web apps and iOS/Android apps, manages servers and hosting, and runs SEO, email and paid-ads growth. He is a full-stack developer at NUST SEECS (MachVIS Lab), Head of IT for Swiss Made Direct and OriginMade, and holds a Major in Computer Science from Air University plus Google Project Management and Google IT Support certificates.

Key facts:
- Clients in 17 countries, including United Kingdom, Pakistan, Switzerland, United States, United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, Australia, France, Lithuania, Ireland, South Africa, New Zealand, Finland, Canada, Cyprus, Germany and Austria; working remotely worldwide.
- 400+ WordPress websites built, redesigned, migrated or rescued; also Shopify, Laravel, React and Next.js.
- £5M+ revenue generated through Google Ads for acrylicsheetcuttosize.co.uk.
- Swiss Made Direct: from 2 to 10+ orders a day on average from organic traffic only (no ads) through technical SEO, schema, sitemaps, LLMs.txt, Rank Math, speed and email.
- 20+ servers managed; 4 fully managed today over SSH (Ubuntu, SSL, tool installs, malware, bot and scraping protection); 40+ client Hostinger accounts; domains, SPF, DKIM, DMARC.
- Built the GMH chauffeur platform: GMH Rides and GMH Chauffeur apps (iOS & Android), dispatch dashboard, corporate and partner portals.
- MachVIS Lab (NUST SEECS), full-stack developer since June 2021: pooled RTX 5080, RTX 4080, A100 and a 128 GB GPU into one cluster serving Llama and other local LLMs to AI engineers; LLM-powered scrapers adapting to each website; PDF extraction of emails, author names and titles.
- Certifications: 6 Google certificates (Project Management, IT Support, IT Security, Digital Marketing & E-commerce, Python, UX Design).
- Built the UKRI-sponsored S2Cool Pakistan Climate Platform at NUST SEECS (MachVIS) with Northumbria University.
- Kristin Richardson Jordan campaign (2021): campaign website, full SEO (a keyword for each page) and Google Business Profile. She won New York City Council District 9 (Harlem) and served 2022–2023.
- Swiss Made Direct migrations: GTranslate to WPML, 10Web to Cloudways, plus a server upgrade.
- Acrylic Sheet Cut To Size: custom pricing formula, page 7 to #1 on Google, DA 38, 1,500+ backlinks, £5M+ from Google Ads.
- Fiverr: 5.0 rating from 481 reviews (Level 2), clients in the US, Europe, Japan and beyond.
- ResearchInn (5 open-access journals): rebuilt a suspended bulk email account and scaled it to 390,561 emails in Aug–Oct 2026; hard-bounce rate cut 48× (6.74% → 0.14%), 99.46% peak delivery, 0.005% complaints.
- Scholar Publishing (UK, 6 journals): built an author pipeline that read 186,735 papers across 1,129 publisher sites and delivered 158,251 verified, correctly attributed contacts into Mailchimp and Brevo; also runs its OJS journals (scholarpublishing.org/journals), WordPress site (scholarpublishing.org/sse), email and Google, Meta and Bing Ads.
- Sarfraz ul Uloom (Islamabad & Nelson, UK): four-department WordPress website plus the official Flutter/Firebase app in development: offline Quran with tafsir and tajweed checked page by page against the printed Indo-Pak mushaf, books and audiobooks, a 193-Sunnah 30-day cycle, quizzes, self-accounting, and a Learning Center turning 18 of the institute's books into scholar-reviewed courses (first course live).
- VertexAI (vertexai.co.uk): created and manages the website for a UK AI consultancy (consulting, custom AI development, AI infrastructure, seven industries).
- Upwork: 100% Job Success, $10K+ earned, 62 jobs, all ratings 5.0, ID verified. Clients most often tag him Reliable, Clear Communicator and Committed to Quality.

## Case studies

- [GMH Chauffeur Platform](https://smtaqimz.com/gmhire): customer and driver apps, dispatch, zones, payments, invoicing.
- [MachVIS AI Lab GPU cluster](https://smtaqimz.com/ai-lab): pooled GPUs for local LLMs and LLM-powered data pipelines.
- [S2Cool Pakistan Climate Platform](https://smtaqimz.com/s2cool): scraped national weather data, formulas and live heatmaps on Vercel.
- [Swiss Made Direct](https://smtaqimz.com/swissmade): server rescue, custom plugins, Spring and FedEx shipping, 10+ organic orders a day.
- [OriginMade](https://smtaqimz.com/originmade): umbrella site for country platforms, 193 country pages, e-commerce app in progress.
- [Kristin Richardson Jordan for Harlem](https://smtaqimz.com/krj): political campaign site + SEO for a winning NYC Council race.
- [Acrylic Sheet Cut To Size](https://smtaqimz.com/acrylic): £5M+ from Google Ads, DA 38, 1,500+ backlinks.
- [Blust On](https://smtaqimz.com/projects/bluston): multi-region hair-care store (via Solved6): server, SEO, PRO membership, custom Tapfiliate plugin, NetShipping fixes.
- [ResearchInn email deliverability](https://smtaqimz.com/researchinn): suspended account to 390,561 emails, hard bounces cut 48×.
- [Scholar Publishing author pipeline](https://smtaqimz.com/scholarpublishing): 158,251 verified academic contacts for six journals.
- [Sarfraz ul Uloom website & app](https://smtaqimz.com/sarfrazululoom): Islamic institute site and its offline-first Flutter app.
- [All projects](https://smtaqimz.com/work): 64 live websites, each with its own case study and live audit.

## Services

- [Full-stack web development](https://smtaqimz.com/services/web-development)
- [Mobile app development](https://smtaqimz.com/services/mobile-apps)
- [WordPress & e-commerce](https://smtaqimz.com/services/wordpress-ecommerce)
- [Google, Meta & Bing Ads](https://smtaqimz.com/services/google-meta-bing-ads)
- [SEO: technical, local & AI search](https://smtaqimz.com/services/seo)
- [Email marketing & deliverability](https://smtaqimz.com/services/email-marketing)
- [Server management & security](https://smtaqimz.com/services/server-management)
- [AI, LLMs & data automation](https://smtaqimz.com/services/ai-data-automation)

## Articles

- [From page 7 to #1: the SEO playbook behind a £5M store](https://smtaqimz.com/articles/seo-page-7-to-number-1)
- [SPF, DKIM and DMARC: get your email out of spam](https://smtaqimz.com/articles/spf-dkim-dmarc-guide)
- [Pooling GPUs for local LLMs: lessons from a university lab](https://smtaqimz.com/articles/local-llm-gpu-cluster)
- [LLM-powered scraping: why smart scrapers beat brittle selectors](https://smtaqimz.com/articles/llm-powered-web-scraping)
- [Moving a live WooCommerce store without losing sales or rankings](https://smtaqimz.com/articles/woocommerce-migration-checklist)
- [Local SEO for political campaigns: lessons from Harlem](https://smtaqimz.com/articles/local-seo-political-campaign)

## About & contact

- [About, experience and credentials](https://smtaqimz.com/about)
- [Contact](https://smtaqimz.com/contact): hello@smtaqimz.com or taqimehdi2011@gmail.com · WhatsApp +92 315 5366864
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/smtaqimz/) · [Fiverr](https://www.fiverr.com/smtaqimz) · [Upwork](https://www.upwork.com/freelancers/~019e84ad4b1f2fd197)

## Full text

- [Every page's text in one file](https://smtaqimz.com/llms-full.txt)