Kamal is available for hire

Kamal Ahmed

Verified Expert in Engineering

WordPress Developer

Sylhet, Sylhet Division, Bangladesh

Toptal member since September 13, 2021

Expertise

PHP WordPress Development MacOS REST API CSS JavaScript MySQL Vue.js React.js AJAX Elementor jQuery SQL Node.js

Bio

Kamal started with web development at the end of 2012. Currently, he serves as a senior WordPress developer at Toptal and a lead developer at TechyDevs. He knows the ins and out of WordPress and delivers great results that work on a large scale. Kamal worked on big products such as Essential Addons, a library actively used by millions of users. He also worked with big companies like rtCamp and Ubersuggest and gained real-life experience.

Portfolio

TechyDevs

PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, WordPress, React, Vue

rtCamp

PHP, WordPress, WordPress VIP, JavaScript, REST APIs, HTML, CSS, PHP 7, React...

Ubersuggest

PHP, JavaScript, WordPress, REST APIs, HTML, CSS, jQuery, APIs...

Experience

JavaScript - 10 years
PHP - 10 years
WordPress - 9 years
WooCommerce - 8 years
MySQL - 7 years
REST APIs - 7 years
Vue - 4 years
React - 3 years

Availability

Full-time

Preferred Environment

PHP, WordPress, JavaScript, MySQL, WooCommerce, WordPress Plugins, WordPress Themes, MacOS, PhpStorm, iTerm2

The most amazing...

...project I've led the development for is Essential Addons for Elementor, used by more than one million users.

Work Experience

Lead Developer

2014 - PRESENT

TechyDevs

Helped develop 15+ professional products that were being sold on ThemeForest.
Created three WordPress themes — hotel booking theme, education theme, and multipurpose theme.
Made a widely-used professional website template using React and Vue.js.

Technologies: PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, WordPress, React, Vue

Senior WordPress Engineer

2022 - 2022

rtCamp

Contributed to developing the rtMedia open-source plugin, which efficiently helps users manage their media on a WordPress site's front end.
Integrated BuddyPress and bbPress plugins and developed all add-in features (about 37).
Worked with WordPress VIP clients on WordPress VIP cloud solution.

Technologies: PHP, WordPress, WordPress VIP, JavaScript, REST APIs, HTML, CSS, PHP 7, React, PHPUnit, Gutenberg Editor, Ajax, APIs, WordPress Plugins

WordPress Plugin Developer

2021 - 2022

Ubersuggest

Helped develop an on-page auto-optimization feature before publishing a page for best SEO score.
Optimized large images on the fly to reduce page load speed and increase lighthouse score.
Found missing important tags on pages like H1 and H2 and gave users advice on their content quality for better SEO ranking.

Technologies: PHP, JavaScript, WordPress, REST APIs, HTML, CSS, jQuery, APIs, WordPress Plugins

Lead WordPress Developer

2020 - 2022

WPDeveloper

Contributed to developing the Essential Addons plugin for Elementor, which provides 70+ free widgets to build a website with a drag and drop feature. More than one million users use this every day.
Led the development of EmbedPress plugin that fetches and embeds content from more than 170 websites. More than 50,000 people use this plugin every day.
Helped EmbedPress grow from 7,000 to 50,000 active installations with a 99% five-star rating in less than six months after I've started working on it.
Started working on the SchedulePress WordPress plugin and also led its development for a few months.

Technologies: PHP, WordPress, WooCommerce, JavaScript, MySQL, REST APIs, HTML, CSS, APIs, WordPress Plugins

WordPress Plugin Developer

2018 - 2020

Themexclub

Developed one of the most customizable plugins called OneElements for Elementor page builder. This plugin provides beautiful widgets with a lot of customization to build any design.
Developed an auto social posting plugin called ContentFlow that would fetch posts from different platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram and publish them on the site. It could also auto-publish to social platforms just like buffer does.
Developed a hover effects plugin called iFects which is being sold on CodeCanyon. This plugin can provide some beautiful elements for a website, like showing featured content that would change on hover or images with beautiful hover effects.
Developed a law and legal firm WordPress theme called Zonus. It is built with Elementor page builder so that everything is easily customizable and plays well with Elementor.

Technologies: PHP, JavaScript, Vue, WordPress, MySQL, REST APIs, jQuery, Ajax, Cron, CSS, HTML, Elementor, WooCommerce, APIs, WordPress Plugins

Experience

Essential Addons for Elementor

https://github.com/WPDevelopers/essential-addons-for-elementor-lite

Developed a WordPress plugin used by more than one million users every day. I contributed to this plugin by adding useful widgets like the login registration widget and WooCommerce product comparison. I have 399 commits in GitHub, where I ranked fifth in the contribution list. This plugin provides different widgets and content blocks to build a beautiful website just by dragging and dropping.

EmbedPress

https://github.com/WPDevelopers/embedpress

EmbedPress is a WordPress plugin that fetches content from more than 170 websites and embeds them in a WordPress site. For example, it can embed content from YouTube, Twitch, SoundCloud, and Google Docs. I am currently leading the development of this plugin.

SchedulePress WordPress Plugin

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-scheduled-posts/

This plugin publishes posts on a scheduled time and date and automatically posts to social media like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Pinterest. Users can also customize the template for sharing posts on social media. I have recently started to lead the development of this plugin.

Trizen | Hotel Booking WordPress Theme

This theme allows booking hotel rooms and other facilities. It has a beautiful design and custom booking system and no dependency on any paid plugin, as everything comes free with the theme. This theme is also 100% compatible with the Elementor page builder and provides many widgets which can be used by dragging and dropping to build a layout. It is also compatible with WooCommerce plugin, so users can easily take payments and manage orders.

rtMedia

https://github.com/rtCamp/rtMedia

rtMedia is the only complete media solution for WordPress, BuddyPress, and bbPress, and is WordPress.com VIP compatible.

I provided bug fixes for both the rtMedia free and premium versions. Most of the time I worked with rtMedia premium version, whose URL is not public.

Education

2009 - 2013

Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration (BSc)

National University of Bangladesh - Dhaka, Bangladesh

2007 - 2009

Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) in Business Administration

Sylhet Government College - Sylhet, Bangladesh

Certifications

FEBRUARY 2024 - PRESENT

WordPress Gutenberg Block Development with React JS and PHP

Udemy

FEBRUARY 2024 - PRESENT

Package Development for Laravel & PHP

Udemy

JUNE 2023 - PRESENT

Advanced WordPress Plugin Development - TailwindCSS, Webpack

Udemy

NOVEMBER 2022 - PRESENT

CSS Development (with CSS3!)

Udemy

AUGUST 2022 - PRESENT

Gutenberg Blocks for WordPress and React Developers

Udemy

AUGUST 2022 - PRESENT

Learn jQuery by Example Course

Udemy

APRIL 2021 - PRESENT

Optimizing WordPress for More Speed and Revenue

Udemy

NOVEMBER 2020 - PRESENT

WordPress Plugin Development

NOVEMBER 2020 - PRESENT

Vanilla JavaScript: Ajax and Fetch

NOVEMBER 2020 - PRESENT

Learning React.js

NOVEMBER 2020 - PRESENT

Learning Node.js

NOVEMBER 2017 - PRESENT

Web Hacking for Beginners

Udemy

JULY 2015 - PRESENT

Beginner Photoshop to HTML5 and CSS3

Udemy

Skills

Libraries/APIs

REST APIs, React, Vue, jQuery, Node.js

Tools

PhpStorm, Cron, Gutenberg Editor, Composer, PageSpeed, Photoshop CC, Webpack

Languages

PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL, CSS3, PHP 7, HTML5

Platforms

MacOS, WordPress, WooCommerce, WordPress VIP

Frameworks

Express.js, PHPUnit, Laravel, Tailwind CSS

Storage

MySQL

Other

iTerm2, WordPress Plugins, APIs, Ajax, Accounts, Business, Statistics, Tax Audits, Fetch API, Elementor, WordPress Themes, Optimization, Security

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