# 12+ years as a PHP & WordPress developer in Nepal.

From CodeIgniter e-commerce builds in 2012 to leading engineering teams behind plugins used on hundreds of thousands of WordPress sites — here's the path so far.

April 2023 — August 2025

## Project Manager · ThemeGrill Pvt. Ltd.

Returned to ThemeGrill to own sprint planning, recruitment and performance management for the WordPress theme and plugin teams. Led product strategy and quality assurance for a portfolio used by hundreds of thousands of sites worldwide.

- Sprint planning & cross-team coordination
- Developer recruitment & performance reviews
- WordPress theme strategy & plugin QA

February 2018 — April 2023

## Senior Software Developer & Project Manager · MantraBrain Pvt. Ltd.

Co-built MantraBrain's engineering function. Led development teams shipping WordPress plugins, Laravel applications and JavaScript libraries. Owned project schedules, mentored engineers, and authored architecture for flagship products including **Yatra** and **Sikshya LMS**.

- Architecture & lead-dev role on flagship plugins
- Hiring, mentoring and code review
- Stakeholder reporting and roadmap

May 2017 — January 2018

## Senior Software Developer · ThemeGrill Pvt. Ltd.

Built custom WordPress plugins and themes plus reusable JavaScript libraries with Grunt-based build pipelines. Helped raise the engineering bar for a fast-growing WordPress product company.

June 2015 — April 2017

## Software Developer · Unifun Pvt. Ltd.

PHP framework development for telecommunications platforms — web services, billing integrations and WordPress customizations at carrier scale. Where I learned what "production-grade reliability" actually means.

September 2014 — June 2015

## Software Developer · Sofos Pvt. Ltd.

Full-stack development across HTML5/CSS3, Magento, Joomla, WordPress and early Laravel projects — wide exposure that shaped how I evaluate frameworks today.

December 2012 — September 2014

## Software Developer · E-prabidhi Pvt. Ltd.

CodeIgniter, WordPress and OpenCart e-commerce builds — where my journey shipping production PHP started.