Karun Shakya, Developer in Kathmandu, Central Development Region, Nepal
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Karun Shakya

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WordPress Developer

Location
Kathmandu, Central Development Region, Nepal
Toptal Member Since
July 6, 2020

Karun started his career as a PHP developer and then moved on to working with WordPress. He's been developing websites for over eight years— blogs, brochure sites, eCommerce, real estate, and more. Karun has also been managing teams and projects for the last two years where he conducts requirement analysis and plans accordingly for the team to carry on the development smoothly.

Portfolio

Elevate Consulting
WordPress, jQuery, PHP, ACF PRO, WordPress Themes, Google Maps API, Stripe...
Game Changers Foundation Inc
WordPress, Project Management, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Google Maps API...
Wiremedia
WordPress, jQuery, PHP, ACF PRO, Timber, Advanced Custom Fields (ACF)...

Experience

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

WordPress Plugins, Skype, Slack, Sublime Text, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), MacOS, Windows

The most amazing...

...thing I've developed is a real estate site where I created custom advanced filters including radius and distance search and results with infinite scrolling.

Work Experience

WordPress Developer

2021 - PRESENT
Elevate Consulting
  • Converted custom PSD designs to WordPress templates.
  • Added new features and updated existing features as per the requirements.
  • Built web pages based on ACF Pro using Flexible Content. Implemented other features such as clone, repeater, relationship, etc., for better management.
  • Created dynamic email templates based on the custom design on MailChimp.
  • Tracked and fixed bugs and issues on multiple websites.
Technologies: WordPress, jQuery, PHP, ACF PRO, WordPress Themes, Google Maps API, Stripe, Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), Web Project Management, Gravity Forms, HTML to WordPress, Mailchimp, Responsive Email Templates, Stripes, MemberMouse, Payment APIs, Front-end, Web Development, Plugins, Responsive Web Apps

WordPress Developer

2022 - 2022
Game Changers Foundation Inc
  • Integrated Ninja Forms with WP Store Locator. Users submit and apply for partnerships. Once necessary arrangements are completed, the admin verifies and publishes the partners' details. Details are displayed on the map along with additional features.
  • Created the volunteer application form and restricted certain pages to be accessed by approved volunteers only.
  • Coordinated with server support for setting up and facilitating a staging website.
  • Imported the existing records from Google Spreadsheet to the website.
Technologies: WordPress, Project Management, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Google Maps API, WordPress Themes, Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), HTML to WordPress, Web Development, Plugins, Responsive Web Apps

WordPress Developer

2021 - 2021
Wiremedia
  • Integrated static HTML to WordPress template based on Timber using the Twig template engine.
  • Tracked and fixed bugs using Jira as a reporting tool.
  • Built sections based on ACF Pro using Flexible Content. Implemented other features such as clone, repeater, and relationship for better management.
Technologies: WordPress, jQuery, PHP, ACF PRO, Timber, Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), Web Development

WordPress Developer

2012 - 2018
EB Pearls
  • Built eCommerce sites using WooCommerce, Jigoshop, WordPress eCommerce, easy digital download, and Opencart.
  • Developed real estate sites using WordPress and custom themes developed as per customer's requirements.
  • Developed multilingual sites integrating WPML and custom translations.
  • Built portfolio sites for photography, books, personal blogs, etc.
Technologies: ACF PRO, Contact Form 7, PHP, WPML, WooCommerce, WordPress Themes, WordPress Plugins, JavaScript, Real Estate, Google Maps API, Gravity Forms, Elementor, WordPress Design, HTML5, MySQL, Learning Management Systems (LMS), Payment APIs, Figma, REST APIs, Front-end, Accessibility, HubSpot, Divi, Web Development, Plugins, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Responsive Web Design (RWD), Responsive Web Apps, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Elegant Themes

PHP/WordPress Developer

2010 - 2012
Himrose IT
  • Developed websites per the client's requirement on core PHP.
  • Developed and managed a PHP library to ease future development of a similar kind.
  • Introduced and implemented the first WordPress powered website.
  • Created theme options, metaboxes, widgets, shortcodes, and TinyMCE custom buttons as per project requirements without the use of plugins.
Technologies: WordPress, jQuery, PHP, WooCommerce, Google Maps API, Stripe, Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), Gravity Forms, PayPal, HTML to WordPress, WordPress Design, WPBakery, HTML5, MySQL, Payment APIs, Front-end, Web Development, Responsive Web Design (RWD)

New Members Onboarding and Fly Menu

A smooth process of onboarding new users. I handled mostly the back-end and some front-end scripts library like jQuery to complete the project. Once a user signs up and login for the first time, they are taken to the first pages to update their preferences and interested groups.
For the same project, I created a fly menu where the menu would smoothly fly in from the left of the screen when the user hovered or clicked on selected elements or buttons.

Real Estate Websites for Swiss Based Client

I was mostly involved in the back end and JavaScript part of the project. On the back end, I created an XML import system when all the property data would be imported via an XML file. One challenge was that the XML used a different coordinate system which we were unaware of and we had to create a function to convert the coordinates to our normal lat/long coordinate system.
I created an advanced filter system which allows users to search by location, distance, price, and type. A user could also draw on the map and find locations based on their selected area.

KS Password Tester

https://wordpress.org/plugins/ks-password-tester/
While working with WordPress during the start of my career, I created a simple plugin to check the strength of the password. It would display colors to mark the strength of the password being used. Green denoted the most strong password.
As WordPress now has the feature inbuilt, this plugin has been closed.
2012 - 2015

Master's Degree in Information Technology

Punjab Technical University (Distance Learning) - Punjab, India

2008 - 2012

Bachelor's Degree in Information Management

Tribhuwan University - Kathmandu, Nepal

MARCH 2020 - MARCH 2021

Licensed Scrum Master

Scrum Inc.

Languages

PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, HTML5, Timber

Tools

Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), ACF PRO, Git, Sublime Text, Slack, Skype, bbPress, WPML, Mailchimp, MemberMouse, WPBakery, Figma

Platforms

WordPress, WooCommerce, HubSpot, Windows, MacOS, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Other

WordPress Plugins, WordPress Themes, Web Development, HTML to WordPress, Event Calendars, Gravity Forms, eCommerce, Elementor, WordPress Design, Payment APIs, Front-end, Accessibility, Plugins, Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), Web Project Management, Scrum Master, PayPal, Square, Wordfence Security, Contact Form 7, Responsive Email Templates, Real Estate, Learning Management Systems (LMS), Responsive Web Apps, Elegant Themes

Frameworks

Divi, Stripes

Libraries/APIs

Google Maps API, REST APIs, jQuery, Stripe

Paradigms

Responsive Web Design (RWD), Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Scrum, Kanban, Agile Project Management

Storage

WP Engine, MySQL

Industry Expertise

Project Management

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