Selected earlier projects
Smaller projects, recent and older, that show the same habit: building around the customer. A few of the ones that shaped how I work.
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AI promotional videos for online course businesses
Freelance clients, and my own products
- What the users needed
- People buying an online course want to see what they will learn and how the course works before they pay.
- What I built
- Wrote the scripts and produced AI-generated promotional videos end to end, from visuals to sound and editing, to market online courses and the web platforms they run on, for clients who sell courses and for my own products.
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Large searchable website with layered filtering
Energy Dynamics, Rockville, Maryland, USA · 2016
- What the users needed
- On a large site, people give up if they cannot narrow things down quickly.
- What I built
- Built a large searchable WordPress website with a custom four-layer filtering plugin so users could find what they needed fast.
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E-commerce store and search content
Energy Dynamics, Rockville, Maryland, USA · 2016
- What the users needed
- Shoppers arrive from search, so the words they use matter as much as the design.
- What I built
- Designed and developed an e-commerce website on BigCommerce, and wrote SEO-friendly content for pages, titles and descriptions targeting key search terms.
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Website, POS and marketing for a food truck
Grá Bia Gastro Truck, Ireland · Freelance, 2025
- What the users needed
- A small food business needs customers to find it, read the menu at a glance and pay easily.
- What I built
- Built the business website, integrated the point-of-sale system, and designed the menu banner and promotional leaflets.
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Online shops and interactive web modules
Micro Fox, Kathmandu, Nepal · 2009 – 2014
- What the users needed
- Each customer’s business was different, so each site had to be shaped around them.
- What I built
- Built WooCommerce shops with checkout and online payments, banner rotation, widgets and interactive modules used across many websites, and led a development team in Agile sprints.
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WordPress.org plugins
Open source · handle: mauriya
- What the users needed
- Site owners want simple tools that solve one problem well.
- What I built
- Contribute plugins to the WordPress.org directory.