Somrat Sorkar
@somratsorkar
Development Team Lead at Themefisher, shipping five product brands and maintaining Sitepins, an open-source headless CMS.
BangladeshWhat I'm looking for
At Themefisher, I own technical architecture across five product brands serving 120,000+ developers and businesses, while leading a team of 5+ engineers and staying hands-on with production applications. I helped shift the company from selling static themes to building products, including an open-source headless CMS, an agency arm and internal tooling.
I’m the lead maintainer of Sitepins, a Git-based headless CMS for Astro, Next.js and Hugo, and maintain Hugoplate, Astroplate and Nextplate. I also built OpenHR, now used for the company’s HR operations, and work on performance, accessibility, technical SEO and readable code.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Themefisher operates five product brands — Themefisher, GetHugoThemes, Statichunt, Zeon Studio and Sitepins — serving 120,000+ developers and businesses.
• Own technical architecture across all five brands and lead a development team of 5+ engineers within a 15-person organisation: code review, release standards, mentoring, and a 95+ PageSpeed floor enforced on everything we ship.
• Build product
Own technical architecture across all five brands and lead a development team of 5+ engineers within a 15-person organisation: code review, release standards, mentoring, and a 95+ PageSpeed floor enforced on everything shipped. Build production applications end-to-end in TypeScript, Next.js, Astro, React and Node.js, covering data modelling, REST API design, authentication and role-based access, d
• Built and maintained Statichunt end-to-end in Next.js, Node.js and MongoDB — schema design, search and filtering, and the submission pipeline for an open directory of Jamstack themes and tools.
• Owned front-end architecture and build tooling across the premium theme catalogue: Hugo modules, shared build pipelines, and the TailwindCSS v4 migration.
• Led client delivery for web applications, mar
• Built and shipped premium themes across Hugo, Jekyll, Next.js, TailwindCSS and Bootstrap, contributing to a catalogue downloaded 1.4M+ times.
• Developed REST APIs and MongoDB data models for marketplace and directory features.
• Established front-end performance and accessibility standards later adopted across the catalogue.
Stack: JavaScript · Node.js · MongoDB · REST APIs · Hugo · Bootstrap
• Built responsive, production-ready themes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Bootstrap against a 95+ PageSpeed standard.
• Moved into Node.js and front-end tooling, taking ownership of individual theme releases end-to-end.
• Trained on the production theme stack: semantic HTML, CSS Flexbox and Grid, JavaScript and Git workflow.
• Shipped first production theme components within the internship period; converted to a full-time Junior Developer role.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
Bogra Polytechnic Institute
Master's Degree, Computer Engineering
CGPA 3.15 / 4.00
Bangladesh University
Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering
2019 - 2022
CGPA 3.76 / 4.00
Bogra polytechnic institute
Diploma in Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering
2014 - 2018
Gulta Bazar High School
Secondary School Certificate - SSC, Arts
2012 - 2014
Availability
Location
BangladeshAuthorized to work in
Website
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