Umesh Ghimire
Senior Software Developer & Project Manager
Professional summary
Senior software developer and project manager with 12+ years of experience shipping production PHP, WordPress, Laravel and JavaScript systems — 4+ years spent in engineering leadership. Past employers include ThemeGrill and MantraBrain — two of Nepal's most established WordPress product companies — alongside telecom-scale PHP at Unifun. Comfortable wearing both hats: hands-on senior developer and the person running sprint planning, hiring and stakeholder reporting.
Experience
- Owned sprint planning and cross-team coordination for the WordPress theme and plugin teams.
- Ran developer recruitment, onboarding and performance reviews.
- Drove product strategy and quality assurance for a portfolio used by hundreds of thousands of WordPress sites.
- Led development teams shipping WordPress plugins, Laravel applications and JavaScript libraries.
- Owned project schedules, code review and stakeholder reporting across multiple platforms.
- Architected flagship products including the Yatra travel-booking plugin and the Sikshya LMS.
- Mentored technical staff and helped grow the engineering function.
- Built custom WordPress plugins and themes for a fast-growing product portfolio.
- Authored reusable JavaScript libraries with Grunt-based build pipelines.
- PHP framework development for telecommunications platforms running on carrier infrastructure.
- Web services, billing integrations and WordPress customizations under strict reliability requirements.
- Full-stack development across HTML5/CSS3, Magento, Joomla, WordPress and early Laravel.
- CodeIgniter, WordPress and OpenCart e-commerce builds — first professional shipping experience.
Featured projects
WordPress plugin · MantraBrain
End-to-end WordPress tour-booking plugin with package management, multi-currency payments, departures and admin dashboards. wpyatra.com
WordPress plugin · MantraBrain
Learning-management plugin for course authoring, enrollments, quizzes and certificate flows. wordpress.org/plugins/sikshya
WordPress plugin
Drag-and-drop registration plugin with custom fields, conditional logic and admin notifications. wordpress.org/plugins/user-registration
Open source · jQuery library
Lightweight jQuery icon-picker library for admin and form-builder UIs. github.com/ughimire/icopick
Skills & technologies
- Languages & frameworks
- PHP, Laravel, CodeIgniter, JavaScript, jQuery, HTML5, CSS3
- CMS & e-commerce
- WordPress, WooCommerce, Magento, Joomla, OpenCart, Easy Digital Downloads
- Databases
- MySQL, PostgreSQL, MSSQL
- DevOps & cloud
- AWS, Docker, Linux, Apache, Nginx, Git, CI/CD (GitHub Actions)
- Project management
- Sprint planning, team leadership, project tracking, stakeholder management, Jira, MS 365
Highlights
- 12+ years in software development; 4+ years in project management and team leadership.
- 50+ projects delivered across PHP, WordPress, Laravel, Magento and Joomla.
- Active open-source contributor — plugins published on WordPress.org, 70+ public repositories on GitHub.
- Comfortable with end-to-end product ownership: from architecture and code through deployment, support and stakeholder reporting.
Languages
English (professional), Nepali (native).
References
Available on request.