Preston, UK — Software Engineer

Bikram
Bishwakarma

Five years building the web. Now building the infrastructure underneath it — AWS, Docker, Jenkins, and Kubernetes, one production project at a time.

Bikram Bishwakarma riding a motorcycle at sunset
Preston, Lancashire
About

Built websites for five years.
Now I want to know what runs underneath them.

I started as a freelance web developer in 2018, shipping WordPress sites and custom themes for clients I never met in person. Since then I've built and maintained production sites for companies in the UK and abroad, handled the DNS and SSL and server config nobody sees, and picked up every plugin conflict along the way.

Right now I'm finishing an MSc in Software Engineering in London, and using the dissertation months to go deep on the layer I always outsourced before: cloud infrastructure. Terraform, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines that actually deploy something. I led the DevOps side of a six-person team project — Jenkins, Docker, AWS ECR and Elastic Beanstalk — and I'm still building on it every week.

5+
Years building production websites
300+
Freelance projects delivered
99%
Client satisfaction on Fiverr
The Route

How I got here

Not a straight line — a road, with a few honest detours.

MM 01
2018 – 2022

First mile

Started freelancing on Fiverr. 300+ small projects taught me how to ship, fix, and communicate under real deadlines.

MM 02
2022 – 2025

Production years

Front-end and WordPress work at Cubixtech and Grepsr — live sites, real traffic, real consequences for mistakes.

MM 03
2025 – present

Back to school

MSc Software Engineering, Regent College London. Led the DevOps stream on a six-person cloud deployment project.

MM 04 — NOW
Present

Next destination

Learning cloud and DevOps daily — AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes — heading toward a cloud/DevOps engineering role.

Toolbox

What I actually use

Front-end & CMS

Where I started

  • WordPress, ACF Pro, Custom Post Types
  • HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery
  • React.js
  • WooCommerce
Back-end

Server-side

  • Node.js, Express.js
  • PHP
  • MongoDB, MySQL
  • REST APIs, JWT auth
Cloud & DevOps

Where I'm headed

  • AWS — EC2, ECR, S3, IAM
  • Docker & Docker Compose
  • Jenkins, GitHub Actions
  • Terraform, Kubernetes (learning)
Everyday tools

Foundations

  • Linux CLI, Bash scripting
  • Git & GitHub
  • DNS, SSL, hosting
  • GA4, Search Console, SEO
Selected Work

Things I've shipped

ChargeMate

EV charging station finder & booking platform. Led the DevOps side — Jenkins pipeline, Docker, AWS ECR + Elastic Beanstalk, automated rollback.

JenkinsDockerAWS

Grepsr

Custom WordPress theme, ongoing maintenance, performance and SEO for a live commercial site.

WordPressSEOACF

Pline

Custom theme build and Custom Post Types for a production WordPress site under active use.

WordPressCustom Theme

Calilio

Front-end interfaces built with React, working alongside a design and backend team on a live product.

ReactFront-end
Get in touch

Let's talk shop.

Open to DevOps and cloud engineering opportunities, remote or based near Preston, UK. Also still taking on the occasional WordPress project.