The people writing the work, not narrating it.
Every essay in the Haxtiv journal is written by a partner who shipped the work it describes. No ghost-written content, no SEO interns, no AI slop. Senior WordPress, Shopify, and editorial-web practitioners writing in their own voice.
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- Ahmad Hussain
SEO & Digital Marketing Lead
12 years running technical SEO, content strategy, paid acquisition, and lifecycle marketing for editorial brands, SaaS, and DTC ecommerce. Allergic to vanity metrics.
2 posts
- Ajmair Hussain
Founding Partner · WordPress, Shopify & Technical SEO Lead
15 years building WordPress and Shopify sites for editorial brands, DTC ecommerce, and senior B2B teams. Founded Haxtiv to ship the kind of work the agency world stopped doing well.
2 posts
- IVInés Vargas
Shopify & commerce partner
Shopify and commerce partner at Haxtiv. 9 years shipping Shopify Plus, B2B catalogs, and headless storefronts. Writes about app stack discipline, conversion craft, and the parts of Shopify work merchants under-invest in.
2 posts
- MRMarlow Reeve
Performance & technical SEO partner
Performance and technical SEO partner at Haxtiv. 12 years shipping WordPress and Shopify performance work. Writes about Core Web Vitals, render-aware engineering, and the parts of speed work that don't fit on a Lighthouse report.
2 posts
- Eliza Park
UX Research & CRO Lead
8 years running hypothesis-led CRO and qualitative research. Cares less about which button color won and more about whether the experiment was worth running.
0 posts
- James Holloway
Shopify Plus Lead
9 years inside Shopify and Shopify Plus — custom themes, B2B, checkout extensibility, ERP integrations, and the operational layer that separates real DTC brands from theme installs.
0 posts
- Marco Linder
Headless & Performance Lead
10 years engineering React, Next.js, and headless commerce stacks. Spends most of his week measuring real-user Core Web Vitals — not Lighthouse scores.
0 posts
- Sarah Bennett
Editorial Design Director
12 years art-directing editorial websites for publications, agencies, and content-led brands. Believes the design system is the product — not the deck.
0 posts
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