Nilambar Sharma
Co-owner CTO at Akala Web Studio
Kathmandu, Bagmati Pradesh, Nepal
Summary
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Top SchoolNilambar Sharma is a seasoned full-stack software leader and co-owner/CTO based in Kathmandu with 12 years of experience building PHP and WordPress-driven products and teams. He combines hands-on engineering in Laravel, CodeIgniter and WP plugin/theme development with MBA-trained business strategy, having co-founded two companies and led product engineering since 2016. As a WP-CLI committer, he has improved core CLI UX—adding alias support, back-compat shims, and clearer command examples—demonstrating attention to developer experience beyond typical theme work. His background in electronics engineering and a track record across startups and agencies give him a pragmatic systems view that bridges product, ops, and developer tooling.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Business Administration, Master of Business Administration - MBA, Business Administration at Apex CollegeBachelor of Engineering - BE, Electronics and Communication, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electronics and Communication at Kantipur Engineering College
Nepali, English
Stackoverflow
1,740reputation
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90answers
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Github Skills (14)
command-line10
wordpress10
command-line-interface10
php10
documentation10
cli10
yaml7
woocommerce6
javascript6
shortcode6
jquery6
insert6
mysql6
custom-post-type6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
wp-cli/wp-cli
Dec 2015 - Dec 2016
⚙️ WP-CLI framework
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 323 commits, 240 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Nilambar contributed primarily to the command-line interface functionality of the WP-CLI framework. Their work involved adding and improving examples for various commands, enhancing documentation, and fixing command-related errors. They also refactored code to improve the user experience, adding features such as alias support and back-compatibility shims, and refined formatting for consistency. These changes suggest a focus on improving the user-facing aspects of the CLI.
wp-cliwordpressphpcli-frameworkframework
ernilambar/npf-framework
Apr 2015 - Feb 2020
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 4 years 10 months
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