Gautam Khorana, twelve years, 12,000+ sites, two production directories, and one running podcast

I have been building websites professionally since 2013. The headline number is 12,000+ sites shipped at Seahawk Media, the agency I co-founded, where I run operations as Co-Founder & COO. The numbers that matter more to me personally are the production builds I treat as proof of the patterns I write about: HostList.io (25,000+ web hosting companies, Next.js + Supabase) and Deluxe Astrology, my parents' Vedic astrology platform (125,000+ pages across 30 languages, Astro + Supabase), where I am the tech brains, marketing, and advisor. Then there is the podcast, WP Legends, where I interview the people building the WordPress ecosystem.

The work is a mix of three: agency operations at Seahawk, my own production sites for proof, and consulting engagements for clients who specifically want the modern-stack version of agency-grade work. The consulting brief shows up most often as a WordPress-to-Next.js or WordPress-to-Astro migration, a wholesale or B2B ecommerce build (especially the gemstone trade, I have the only public gemstone catalogue at scale), or a GEO / AI SEO programme.

Part of the week goes to Seahawk Media operations, agency systems, hiring, training, and the parts of running a 70-person team that never show up on a website. The rest is hands-on: shipping the production directories, writing the blog you are reading, recording WP Legends, and the client work that comes in through this site.

The constant through all of it is the writing. The blog is the longest-running thread, and it is where I work out what I actually think before it shows up in a build or a client engagement.

I take on a small number of consulting engagements at any given time. The shape that fits best: an existing business with a serious site (10k+ pages, B2B portal, multi-language, regulated industry, or a brief that has burned out a previous agency) where the modern stack is genuinely the right answer and the budget is real. The work is delivered with senior engineers from Seahawk under my direction; I am the senior on every engagement, the kickoff conversation is with me, and the handover at the end is real code with documentation.

The booking sequence is the simplest possible: book a 30-minute call, describe the brief, and by the end of the call you have a stack pick, a price range, and a delivery window. No sales deck. No qualification screen. If I am not the right person, I will tell you and refer you to someone who is.

I live in Notting Hill, London. I drink filter coffee from Hermanos most weekday mornings. I write about cafes, breakfast spots, and London life occasionally on the blog when something deserves it (the breakfast post is the most-shared example). My typing speed and reading appetite both predate the internet and continue to scale.

At home there is Tarini, my daughter, and Jazz, our beagle. girl.dad is launching soon in their honor: days out, guides, community, and a small apparel drop for dads raising daughters.

If we have not met and you got here from a Google search or a podcast appearance, the easiest way to know whether we should talk is to book the 30-minute call. The worst case is you walk away with a stack recommendation and no further commitment.