About

I build websites. That is the whole business.

No agency layer, no account manager, no reselling your project to someone cheaper. The person who quotes you is the person who writes the code and picks up the phone two years later.

Ashin Iqbal, web designer and developer, Kolkata

I am Ashin Iqbal, a web designer and developer based in Kolkata, West Bengal. I am Chief Technology Officer at PBIS LLC in North East Ohio, co-founder of Web Goliath in Kolkata, and I still take freelance projects directly. Between them I have delivered 24 client websites across India, the USA, Canada, Australia, Nigeria and Malaysia — booking platforms, online stores, medical practices, schools and corporate sites.

Most people who come to me have been burned once already. A site built on a page builder that got slower every month. A developer who stopped replying. A "cheap" website that turned out to be a subscription they could never leave. So the way I work is a direct answer to that: fixed prices published on the site, a delivery date in writing, hand-written code with no builder licence attached, and full ownership handed to you on launch day.

Why hand-coded, in 2026

A page builder ships one to two megabytes of CSS and JavaScript your visitors never use. On a phone in Kolkata on a patchy 4G connection, that is the difference between a customer waiting and a customer leaving. Writing the theme by hand means the browser downloads only what your site actually needs — which is why these builds routinely score above 90 in PageSpeed Insights while a builder site struggles to pass 50.

How I price

Indian clients get a fixed one-time build cost. Overseas clients usually prefer a managed monthly plan that rolls design, hosting, updates and SEO into one number. Both are published on the pricing page, because making you sit through a call to find out the price is a sales tactic, not a service.

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24

Client sites shipped

6

Countries served

5.0

Fiverr seller rating

90 +

Typical PageSpeed score

Track record

Where the experience came from.

Four roles, three of them still running. Every company below is a live link — check them.

2024 - Present

Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

PBIS LLC North East Ohio, USA - Remote

Oversee technology and digital operations - WordPress and PHP systems, e-commerce, hosting, SEO, security and website infrastructure. Work alongside the business team to keep systems reliable and improve how the company runs digitally.

From 2024

Co-Founder & Web Expert / Delivery Head

Web Goliath Kolkata, India

Co-founded Web Goliath and built the business up with a small remote team. Responsible for project delivery, technical execution, client communication, quality control, and the complex WordPress, PHP and custom web builds.

2022 - 2023

Project Head

Ahaan Software Consulting Sector V, Kolkata - On-site

Ran web projects from planning through delivery: scoping, timelines, team coordination, domains, custom email, hosting, maintenance and technical support. Worked with developers to hold schedules and keep client sites stable and secure.

2020 - Present

Web Developer & Technology Services

Freelance Remote - Indian & international clients

Freelance work for businesses and individuals across graphic design, C++, PHP, e-commerce, SEO, hosting, maintenance and website optimisation. Where the fixed-price, answer-fast way of working came from.

Education

2019 - 2023

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech)

JIS College of Engineering West Bengal, India

Computer science and engineering fundamentals - databases, networks and algorithms - carried alongside live client work the whole way through.

2017 - 2019

Higher Secondary Education

Burdwan Model School Burdwan, West Bengal

Where the first line of PHP got written, mostly out of stubbornness about a school project.

Toolkit

What I actually work with.

Tools are not the selling point — but you should know exactly what your site will be built on before you commit to it.

Core

  • PHP & MySQL
  • HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript
  • React.js & Vite
  • REST API integration
  • Git & GitHub

WordPress

  • Custom themes from scratch
  • Custom plugin development
  • WooCommerce & Shopify
  • Database optimisation
  • Migration & security

Design

  • UI/UX design in Figma
  • Adobe Creative Cloud
  • Tailwind CSS & Bootstrap
  • Responsive & mobile-first
  • Accessibility (ADA/WCAG)

Growth

  • Technical SEO
  • Google Analytics & Search Console
  • Core Web Vitals tuning
  • Payment gateway integration
  • Hosting, DNS & Cloudflare

On AI

AI didn’t replace developers. It made us unstoppable.

It did not learn your business, sit on your discovery call, or decide what your homepage should say. What it did was delete the slow parts of my week — boilerplate, test cases, migration scripts — and hand that time back to the parts that actually decide whether your site earns money.

Shipped in weeks, not quarters A booking system that used to take two months now launches in three weeks — same code quality, less of it typed by hand.
More validation, fewer bugs in production Every input path, edge case and failure mode gets checked, because writing those checks is no longer the expensive part.
Agency-grade work at freelance rates The saving goes into your quote, not my margin. That is how a small business in Kolkata gets the same build a US agency charges five figures for.
1 // what changed in how I build
2 - 6 hrs writing boilerplate CRUD
3 - 4 hrs hand-testing every form path
4 - 3 hrs hunting a typo across 40 files
5
6 + 6 hrs understanding your customers
7 + 4 hrs designing the page that sells
8 + 3 hrs tuning speed & Core Web Vitals
9
10 // net: same week. better website.

Tell me what your business needs. I’ll tell you what it costs.

A fixed quote and a delivery date within one working day. No retainer to talk, no obligation, no sales script.

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