Kyle Nel
Senior Web Developer at IGrow Wealth Investments
Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
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Top SchoolKyle Nel is a Senior Web Developer and Full Stack Engineer with over a decade of experience building enterprise-grade web platforms, specializing in PHP, WordPress/WooCommerce, React, and AI tooling. He has led performance and architecture projects at Automattic that cut server load by 40%, standardized AI deployments, and rebuilt the React-powered WooCommerce marketplace UX, while contributing front-end improvements to the highly visible woocommerce/woocommerce open-source repo. Equally comfortable in backend, DevOps, and frontend UX, Kyle pairs hands-on engineering with mentoring, documentation, and customer-facing enablement to drive real business outcomes. He runs a consultancy focused on accessible, high-conversion e-commerce and advises clients on pragmatic AI adoption, and now leads web strategy for a property-tech firm in South Africa. Outside work he volunteers as an AV and IT team lead for a digital-first church, blending technical governance with community leadership.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Medical Biology, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Medical Biology at University of LancashireWinstanley College
English
Stackoverflow
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30reached
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Github Skills (11)
html10
css10
woocommerce10
php10
javascript10
front-end-development10
ecommerce10
react10
ui-design9
css-grid9
wordpress6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
woocommerce/woocommerce
May 2019 - Feb 2025
A customizable, open-source ecommerce platform built on WordPress. Build any commerce solution you can imagine.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:162 reviews, 52 PRs, 116 pushes in 5 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Kyle primarily focused on front-end development within the WooCommerce project. Their contributions involved creating and integrating user interface components, including footers, search components, and product cards. The user also worked on theming, layout, and styling, utilizing CSS Grid, and implementing responsive design principles. Furthermore, they were responsible for adding features like the account menu and the marketplace tour.
ecommercecommercewordpressautomatticphp
kdevnel/family-recipe-book
Jan 2020 - Feb 2025
A plugin for allowing you to store family recipes and display them on your WordPress website.
Contributions:8 PRs, 35 pushes, 11 branches in 5 years 2 months
recipeswordpresspluginwordpress-websitewordpress-plugin
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