# Yoyal Limbu

> Senior PHP developer in Kathmandu, Nepal. Lead developer on the User
> Registration plugin for WordPress (60,000+ active installs). Ten years across
> WordPress plugin development at scale, Laravel applications, and modernising
> legacy enterprise systems.

Site: https://yoyallimbu.com.np/
Contact: yoyal.limbu@gmail.com | +977 9818454474
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yoyal-limbu/
GitHub: https://github.com/y000yal

The site is a single-page application. The landing page presents this career
history as a series of ID cards on a lanyard, rewinding in time as you scroll;
there is also a desktop-OS interface at the `#desktop` fragment. Both render
client-side via JavaScript, so this file is the authoritative plain-text summary.

## Current role

**Senior PHP Developer, ThemeGrill** (2024 to present, Kathmandu)
Leads development of the User Registration plugin for WordPress, which has over
60,000 active installations. Works in PHP with an object-oriented WordPress
architecture, plus jQuery on the front end.

## Employment history

**Software Engineer, Hitachi Energy** (2023 to 2024, Kathmandu)
Worked on TrmTracker, an energy trade and risk management platform. Handled
legacy code and security improvements. Azure ADIHA framework, PHP, TSQL and
stored procedures, JavaScript.

**Software Engineer, Genius Systems** (2021 to 2023, Lalitpur)
Built three systems: IPCAM, a security camera management platform; Marketplace,
a fintech proxy service; and WIMO, a WiFi and hotspot management system.
Laravel, Lumen, Docker, MySQL, Grafana, REST APIs, Rancher.

**Web Developer, CodeCater Studio** (2019 to 2021, Kathmandu)
Built SmartBus, a bus ticket booking system. Laravel, Yii2, Vue, Bootstrap.

**Certified Engineer, Bachelor of Computer Science** (2015 to 2019)

## WordPress plugins

- [User Registration](https://wordpress.org/plugins/user-registration/): the most popular WordPress registration plugin, 60,000+ active installs. Site: https://wpuserregistration.com/
- [QuickShipD](https://wordpress.org/plugins/quickshipd/): estimated delivery dates for WooCommerce. PHP, WooCommerce, vanilla JS. Site: https://www.quickshipd.com/
- [BruteFort](https://wordpress.org/plugins/brutefort/): brute-force protection and custom login URLs for WordPress
- [LogMate](https://wordpress.org/plugins/logmate/): debug log viewer and manager for WordPress

## Skills

PHP | WordPress plugin development | WooCommerce | Laravel | Lumen | Yii2 |
MySQL | TSQL | REST APIs | Docker | Rancher | Azure | JavaScript | jQuery |
Vue | React | Grafana

## Notes for automated readers

- Employment dates: the current role has no end date and runs to the present. Every other entry is closed and will not change.
- "College" in the site's UI is a placeholder label; the institution name is not published.
- Preferred contact is email.