Kamal Hosen (@ikamal) – WordPress user profile

Kamal Hosen

WordPress Engineer at Toptal

@ikamal Dhaka, Bangladesh joined Feb 2017

kamalhosen.com github.com/ikamal7 Slack: @Kamal Hosen

Teams Community Core AI Core Core Performance Core Program Hosting Polyglots Test Themes CLI

Languages bn

Bio

I’ve been working as a WordPress Developer for almost 7 years, and I enjoy what I do. Passionate about code, solving problems, learning new technologies, and helping teams.
My goal is to find a position where I can utilize my experiences as a WordPress Developer to help solve complex software engineering problems.

Interests

Programming, Travelling, Reading Books, Open Source pro,

WordPress Origin Story

2024: Become Hall of fame: All Star mentee
2024: Core Contributor for WordPress 6.7.
2024: Contributed as a Test Contributor.
2024: Organizer for WordCamp Sylhet 2024.
2023: Attended WordCamp Sylhet 2023.
2023: Became a WordPress Meetup Organizer.
2019: Attended WordCamp Dhaka 2019.
2017: Received my first WordPress contribution badge.
2016: Started my journey with WordPress.
2014-15: Began learning WordPress theme development.
2013: Discovered WordPress for the first time.

Badges

CODE

4 badges

Core Contributor '24 Pattern Author '22 Plugin Developer Theme Developer

CONTENT

1 badge

Photo Contributor '22

COMMUNITY

2 badges

Meetup Organizer '24 WordCamp Organizer '24

PRACTICE

1 badge

Test Contributor '24

POLYGLOTS

2 badges

Translation Contributor '21 Translation Editor '21

Current Job

WordPress Engineer

Present

Toptal · Freelance

Recent impact

Score weights high-impact work (commits, releases, approved translations, props) at 3x routine activity.

Last 30 days

7contributions

high3

medium4

score13

Last 90 days

25contributions

high17

medium8

score59

Last 12 months

64contributions

high55

medium9

score174

Team focus

Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

WordPress releases

Contributed to 2 releases

Time commitment

12 hours per week

On my own time 12 hrs/wk

Contributions

Type

September 2026

Sep 01 Tue · 01:12

Playground high

Pull request #4289 merged into WordPress/wordpress-playground:
[i18n] Add Bengali (bn) translation for the troubleshooting page

August 2026

Aug 29 Sat · 15:23

Playground med

Submitted pull request #4289 to WordPress/wordpress-playground:
[i18n] Add Bengali (bn) translation for the troubleshooting page

Aug 17 Mon · 16:04

Meta med

Wrote a comment on the post WordPress 7.2 Call for Volunteers, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I’d love to volunteer as a Triage Lead for the WordPress 7.2 release cycle. I…

Aug 13 Thu · 15:32

Core med

Submitted pull request #13040 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
Comments: Update the "Mine" count after AJAX moderation and reply actions.

Aug 08 Sat · 09:04

GitHub high

Pull request #181 merged into WordPress/test-handbook:
Add Test Chat and Bug Scrub Facilitator Plugin guide sections

Aug 08 Sat · 07:46

GitHub med

Submitted pull request #181 to WordPress/test-handbook:
Add Test Chat and Bug Scrub Facilitator Plugin guide sections

Aug 04 Tue · 21:28

Meta high

Joined the organizing team for WordCamp Sylhet 2026