Eugene Kyale
Senior Developer at Matchbox Design Group
Nairobi, Nairobi County, Kenya
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Top SchoolEugene Kyale is a Senior Developer based in Nairobi with 7 years of experience building modern, scalable web solutions—specializing in WordPress, Gutenberg block development, and React-powered front ends. He has shipped features and back-end improvements for The Events Calendar, a widely used WordPress plugin with millions of downloads, and now leads development of block themes, custom plugins, and an internal design system at Matchbox Design Group. Comfortable spanning design-to-deploy workflows, he focuses on performance, accessible reusable components, and clean maintainable architecture. He also mentors junior engineers and contributes to cross-functional tooling and deployment pipelines, bringing a pragmatic blend of consultancy experience and production-level open-source contributions.
7 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Business Information Technology, Web Development, Database Management, Networking, Digital Marketing, 2nd Class Upper Division, Bachelor of Business Information Technology, Web Development, Database Management, Networking, Digital Marketing, 2nd Class Upper Division at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology
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Github Skills (5)
wordpress10
php10
back-end-development10
mysql7
git5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
the-events-calendar/the-events-calendar
Jun 2021 - Jan 2023
The Events Calendar WordPress plugin
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 223 reviews, 814 commits in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Eugene's commits primarily focus on modifying the back-end code for the Events Calendar WordPress plugin. They are responsible for adding features, such as a class to tag labels, merging and updating existing code from release branches. Furthermore, the user is contributing to general code improvements such as changes related to the event cost field.
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EugeneKyale/EugeneKyale
Mar 2021 - Jul 2024
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 4 months
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