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.
How I workWhat you can expect from me
- Honest scope & estimatesI'd rather lose a project than over-promise. You'll get realistic timelines and trade-offs upfront.
- Code your next developer can readI write to WordPress / PSR coding standards, with documentation, tests where they earn their keep, and clean architecture.
- Async-friendly communicationWeekly written updates, recorded walkthroughs, and clear next-steps — so you always know what's happening.
- Stakeholder-ready reportingYears as a PM mean I can talk to engineers, designers, founders and non-technical clients in their own language.
Pragmatic, battle-tested tools
I pick the boring tool that gets your project shipped — not the trend du jour.
Languages & Frameworks
- PHP
- Laravel
- CodeIgniter
- JavaScript
- jQuery
- HTML5
- CSS3
CMS & Data
- WordPress
- WooCommerce
- Magento
- Joomla
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- MSSQL
DevOps & Cloud
- AWS
- Docker
- Linux
- Nginx
- Apache
- Git
- CI/CD
Process & Leadership
- Sprint planning
- Jira
- Code review
- Hiring & mentoring
- Stakeholder reporting