ABOUT · WISCONSIN, USA

Built entirely from obsession.

Dru Abraham, WordPress developer and plugin engineer

I grew up in Florida taking electronics apart to see how they worked. Today I take businesses apart to see why they aren't converting, and then I rebuild them.

I am entirely self-taught. After thousands of hours in PHP and JavaScript, I build custom WordPress environments from the ground up. There were no bootcamp shortcuts. I learn by engineering systems that perform under pressure.

As a co-founder of Black Plague Gold, GloriBlends, and EfYeah Digital, I have paid for traffic that didn’t convert. That is why I build with a founder mentality: every pixel earns its place, and every system must drive ROI. I have navigated the nightmare of CBD marketing where standard ads are banned, forcing me to build organic pipelines that increased sales by over 300 percent.

AN ENTIRE AGENCY IN ONE PERSON
BLACK PLAGUE GOLD · CO-FOUNDER

At Black Plague Gold, I was the agency. Every discipline below ran through me, from the storefront to the Amazon A+ content. The only thing I didn’t make was the logo. I scaled the brand from five sales a month to over five consistent sales every single day.

✓ Web design
✓ Web development
✓ Graphic design
✓ Brand identity
✓ Automations
✓ Email marketing
✓ Digital marketing
✓ Content strategy
✓ Amazon FBA
✓ A+ Content
Logo

I have also run web projects as Web Project Manager for Just Men Shoes on Shopify, and directed Amazon FBA pipelines for five years.

Now, 150+ websites later, I can build for any business, any product, any service. Real estate, government, law, roofing, cleaning, auto transport, pet services, e-commerce, and many more. The niche changes; the engineering doesn’t. I adapt the technology to the goal of the business.

SITES SHIPPED
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CBD SALES, ZERO ADS
+ 0 %
SALES / MONTH → / DAY
5 → 0 +
AMAZON FBA
0 yrs
THE PATH

Florida

The tinkerer

Grew up dismantling electronics to understand how they worked.

Self-taught

PHP & JavaScript

Thousands of hours building custom WordPress environments from the ground up.

Founder

Black Plague Gold & Gloriblends

Co-owned and ran my own brands. That’s where I learned what actually drives revenue.

150+ sites

Every niche

Roofing, tour operators, cleaning, police, real estate, auto transport, pet services, e-commerce.

Today

Based in Wisconsin

Building revenue engines and custom plugins for clients worldwide via Upwork.

[ THE TRACK RECORD ]

Architected for scale.

Five companies, five different battlefields. Each one taught me something an agency never could. Open any role to see what I built there.

01ReefWP EcosystemFounder & Lead Architect6 plugins

Architecting a proprietary suite of zero-bloat WordPress plugins (Pulse Bookings, Echo Forms, ReefCRM, Spout SMTP, Glow Reviews, FathomLMS) designed to replace expensive SaaS stacks with native, custom-coded infrastructure. Every client I build a website for gets them free.

Operated as a one-man agency. Web design, development, graphic design, brand identity, automations, email marketing, digital marketing, content strategy, the Amazon FBA pipeline, and every A+ Content page. Everything except the logo. Scaled the brand from 5 sales a month to 5+ consistent sales every single day.

The same full-stack, one-person operation as Black Plague Gold, but in CBD, where paid advertising was legally off the table at the time. With no ads to lean on, I engineered high-converting organic pipelines and True SEO that increased total sales volume by over 300 percent.

Managed the web projects for the Shopify storefront, coordinating UI/UX, development, and conversion improvements to capture high-intent retail traffic and turn clicks into revenue.

Managed comprehensive web design and structural SEO. This is where my anti-agency philosophy was born: learning exactly where standard agency models fail clients, and how to build better, leaner systems.

[ BUILDING + MARKETING ]

Building websites and filling them.

I’ve been building websites with WordPress for 12 years, and marketing them on Meta (Facebook and Instagram) and Google for just as long. To me that’s one job, not two. I build the site knowing how the traffic will get there, and I run the ads knowing exactly what the page has to do when people land.

Twelve years in, I still build websites in my free time, for fun.

WordPress
Elementor
Custom plugins
Meta ads
Google Ads
Landing pages
Analytics
12
years
OF WORDPRESS
& PAID ADS
5
years
INSIDE AMAZON FBA
[ PLATFORM LOGISTICS ]

Engineering Amazon conversions.

Amazon is one of the toughest places on the internet to win a sale. I spent 5 years as an Amazon specialist running FBA for corporate catalogs: the listings, high-converting A+ pages, search rankings and the whole life of each storefront.

I ran the PPC too, on Amazon and on Meta, with my own ad images, audiences and wording. Clicks came in at around $0.10 each with a high conversion rate. The Meta ads sent people to a landing page that explained the product first, then on to the Amazon listing, so they showed up ready to buy.

If I can make a product stand out on Amazon, I can make your standalone brand a digital monopoly.

FBA pipelines
A+ Content pages
Search rank strategy
Corporate catalogs
Listing lifecycle
Amazon PPC
Meta ads
Landing pages
[ 12 YEARS OF EXPERTISE ]

The multidisciplinary stack.

01

Custom Web Architecture

Native WordPress development, custom PHP, application shells, and isolated database structuring.

WordPress
PHP 8.1+
Custom SQL
App shells
02

UI/UX Engineering

Visual page building with dark-mode aesthetics, custom CSS/JS, and zero-friction user journeys, all mapped to front-end editors for total client control.

Elementor
CSS / JS
React
Design systems
03

True SEO & Automation

Semantic DOM hierarchies, schema markup, and passing Core Web Vitals to earn search visibility, paired with deep backend automation workflows.

Schema
Core Web Vitals
Workflows
APIs
04

Digital Marketing & Scale

Paid traffic conversion, organic pipeline building, and operational logistics that turn a high-end website into a highly profitable digital asset.

Paid traffic
Organic SEO
Amazon FBA
CRO

Let's build your monopoly.

Send an invite on Upwork with your goals and I’ll reply with a plan.

IDENTITY TRAIT · 06 / 06

ROI-Driven Marketing.

"If it can't be measured, it can't be improved."

Beyond design, I build the systems that bring people in: True SEO that goes deeper than Yoast or Rank Math, email marketing, and landing pages built to lower your ad costs.

150+
Websites engineered
What this means for you
True SEO

Hundreds of high-quality, targeted pages generated from structured data.

Lower ad spend

Landing pages that convert paid traffic instead of burning it.

Clear tracking

Know exactly which pages and channels produce customers.

IDENTITY TRAIT · 02 / 06

Bespoke Architecture.

"Zero templates. Zero bloat. Built for you."

Every build starts from a blank file, not a $59 theme. I build the structure around how your business actually makes money: clean PHP, custom database tables when the data needs them, and a lean front end that loads fast and ranks well.

100%
Custom-coded foundations
What this means for you
No theme lock-in

You own clean, documented code, not a stack of conflicting plugins.

Built to scale

Architecture that handles new pages, products, and traffic without a rebuild.

Client-friendly editing

An intuitive editing experience so your team can update content without breaking layouts.

IDENTITY TRAIT · 01 / 06

Autodidactic Engineer.

"Self-taught. Battle-tested. Unstoppable."

Every skill I possess was earned through obsessive self-education instead of a classroom. From WordPress, Elementor, PHP, and JavaScript to CSS, Photoshop, email platforms, SEO, and Amazon, I taught myself everything by engineering real solutions under tight deadlines and real pressure.

12 Years
Building websites, self-taught
What this means for you
Thousands of hours

Spent learning PHP and JS by building production systems from scratch.

No shortcuts taken

I learn the fundamentals first, then build on top with no copy-paste engineering.

Relentless iteration

When something breaks, I debug it until I understand exactly why and document the fix.

IDENTITY TRAIT · 04 / 06

Conversion Automation.

"Every click should move someone closer to buying."

Traffic is useless if it doesn’t convert. I design funnels, forms and automations that capture leads, filter out bots and follow up automatically, so your site keeps selling while you sleep.

+42%
Daily leads at Secure Auto Shipping
What this means for you
Lead capture that works

High-intent forms, instant quotes, and clear calls-to-action on every page.

Zero bot interference

Custom spam filtering so your inbox only holds real prospects.

Automated follow-up

Leads routed to your CRM, email, or phone the moment they submit.

IDENTITY TRAIT · 03 / 06

Founder Mentality.

"I build like my own money is on the line."

As co-founder of Black Plague Gold and Gloriblends, I’ve lived the other side: paying for ads, chasing conversions and watching every dollar. I bring that same ownership to your project. Every decision gets measured against revenue.

2
Brands co-owned & operated
What this means for you
Owner-level decisions

I push back when something won’t drive results, and explain why.

Speed matters

Rapid execution, because every week without a working site costs you money.

Long-term thinking

I build for where your business is headed next.

IDENTITY TRAIT · 05 / 06

E-commerce Strategist.

"Checkout is where revenue is won or lost."

From WooCommerce builds to Amazon listings, I’ve run stores myself. I remove friction from product pages and checkout, add smart upsells, and build retention systems that turn one-time buyers into repeat customers.

500%
Average client growth
What this means for you
Low-friction checkout

Fewer steps, faster load, and trust signals where they matter.

Smarter upsells

Bundles and post-purchase offers that raise order value.

Repeat revenue

Automated reorder reminders and loyalty flows.