# Senior PHP & WordPress developer in Nepal — and a shipping partner you can trust.

I'm Umesh Ghimire. For more than a decade I've split my time between writing production PHP and JavaScript code and running the engineering teams that ship it. Based in Maharajganj, Kathmandu — working with clients worldwide.

## Twelve-plus years of shipping software in Nepal.

I started my career in 2012 building CodeIgniter and OpenCart e-commerce sites at E-prabidhi. From there, full-stack work at Sofos and telecom-scale PHP at Unifun shaped how I think about reliability — when your code runs on a carrier billing platform, "works on my machine" stops being good enough.

In 2017 I joined ThemeGrill, then helped build MantraBrain into a respected WordPress product company, where I led the engineering teams behind flagship plugins like **Yatra**, **Sikshya LMS** and the **User Registration Plugin**. Returning to ThemeGrill as Project Manager from 2023–2025, I owned sprint planning, hiring and product strategy for a portfolio used by hundreds of thousands of sites.

Today I take on senior freelance and retainer engagements: WordPress plugin development, Laravel SaaS, code rescue work, and fractional-PM roles for teams that need a senior hand to keep delivery predictable.

## What you can expect from me

- **Honest scope & estimates** I'd rather lose a project than over-promise. You'll get realistic timelines and trade-offs upfront.
- **Code your next developer can read** I write to WordPress / PSR coding standards, with documentation, tests where they earn their keep, and clean architecture.
- **Async-friendly communication** Weekly written updates, recorded walkthroughs, and clear next-steps — so you always know what's happening.
- **Stakeholder-ready reporting** Years as a PM mean I can talk to engineers, designers, founders and non-technical clients in their own language.

### Quick facts

**Role** Senior Software Developer & PM

**Based in** Maharajganj, Kathmandu, Nepal

**Working** Worldwide, async-friendly

**Time zone** UTC+5:45 (NPT)

**Languages** English, Nepali

**Response** Within 24 hours, weekdays

**Email** [me.umeshuser@gmail.com](mailto:me.umeshuser@gmail.com)

## Pragmatic, battle-tested tools

I pick the boring tool that gets your project shipped — not the trend du jour.