About

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.

My story

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 work

What 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.
Tech I reach for

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

Looking for a senior developer who actually delivers?

Let's talk. I'll review your brief and reply with honest feedback within one business day.

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