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Sohel Rana

Curriculum vitae

Sohel Rana

Currently Senior Full Stack Developer at IWD Agency (remote). Building for the web since 2008, Magento since 2009.

Summary

I've worked with Magento for 17+ years, almost all of it remotely for teams in the US and New Zealand. Before my current role I spent over nine years at eCommistry, the last four as Technical Lead on Adobe Commerce Cloud, B2B and ERP integration projects. I hold 7 Adobe Commerce certifications and the Zend Certified Engineer certification, and I've built my own products: Nopwara for nopCommerce and Forgeline for commercetools. I now bring AI into delivery, with AI-assisted development, code review and testing, and I'm prototyping MCP servers for agentic commerce. I'm a Claude Certified Architect – Foundations (Anthropic).

Experience

  1. Aug 2026 to present

    Senior Full Stack Developer · IWD Agency

    Full-time · Texas, United States · Remote

    • Building and extending Adobe Commerce stores, from custom modules to checkout and catalogue features.
    • Developing Hyvä themes and migrating storefronts to Hyvä for faster, lighter frontends.
    • Integrating Adobe Commerce with ERP systems for products, stock, pricing and orders.
    • Building Laravel applications and services that sit alongside the stores.
    • Driving an AI-first delivery approach, with AI-assisted development, code review and testing built into the team's day-to-day work.
    • Prototyping MCP servers that give AI agents read access to catalogue, cart and order data.

  2. Oct 2021 to Apr 2026

    Technical Lead · eCommistry

    Christchurch and Wellington, New Zealand · Remote

    • Architected and led delivery of Adobe Commerce Cloud builds for multi-brand, multi-region retailers.
    • Designed and built B2B features including custom quote systems, company hierarchies and advanced pricing rules.
    • Led ERP integrations with LS Retail, GreenTree, RetailExpress, SAP and Dynamics 365, using Boomi for real-time sync.
    • Mentored and managed the development team and kept code quality in line with Adobe Commerce best practice.

  3. Feb 2017 to Oct 2021

    Senior Magento Backend Developer · eCommistry

    New Zealand · Remote

    • Magento 2 backend development.

  4. May 2015 to Nov 2016

    Senior Magento Backend Developer · MageInferno

    Cleveland, OH, USA · Remote

    • Built Magento 2 extensions including address verification, store locator, custom order numbers, canned responses, tracking import, quick order, affiliates and custom order management.

  5. Jan 2011 to Jan 2017

    Senior Software Engineer (Zend PHP / Magento) · Mindmovies LLC

    USA · Remote

    • Magento backend work on payment and shipping gateways, orders and invoices, and fulfilment system integrations.
    • Built XML-RPC, REST and SOAP web services (server and client), a sales funnel system and a custom order process.
    • Built Zend Framework 1 and 2 applications with jQuery, KnockoutJS and Bootstrap 3.

  6. Oct 2008 to Jun 2011

    Software Engineer, Magento Developer · Greenland IT

    Dhaka, Bangladesh

    • PHP and Magento backend development: payment and shipping gateways, orders and invoices, fulfilment integrations and web services.

More detail on LinkedIn.

Skills

Platforms
Adobe Commerce / Magento 2 · Magento 1 · commercetools · nopCommerce
Frontend
Hyvä · Tailwind CSS · Alpine.js · Next.js / React · Luma
Extensibility
Adobe App Builder · API Mesh · I/O Events · GraphQL · REST
Commerce domains
B2B Commerce · MSI · Checkout & payments · Search
AI
AI-assisted development · AI code review & testing · MCP / agentic commerce · Claude API & Agent SDK
Integrations
SAP · LS Retail · Dynamics 365 · GreenTree · Boomi · ERP / PIM / 3PL
Engineering
PHP 8 · Laravel · Zend Framework · MySQL · Redis · OpenSearch · Docker · CI/CD

Community

Certifications