Helping Businesses Scale with WordPress, Laravel & Shopify

Full-stack developer building production software for startups, agencies, and the open web.

Kamal Hosen
Open for collaboration

Building for the web

Since 2018 · Remote, worldwide

7+ Years

Full-stack development & WordPress engineering

Toptal Vetted

Top 3% of global freelance talent

100+ Sites

Shipped for startups, agencies & Toptal clients

Founder

Codelabs Digital — 5 products shipped

★ Top 3% TalentToptal VettedVerified Shopify Specialist

Need a Top 3% WordPress, Shopify & Laravel Engineer?

From WordPress plugins to Shopify storefronts and Laravel backends, I build production software that scales. Contract securely through Toptal, or work with me directly.

Studio

Codelabs Digital — a software studio, built on the side

An independent product studio I founded and run, shipping focused tools for developers, WordPress, WooCommerce, and Shopify teams — one product at a time, each built to last.

IDInspectDevDeveloper tools & Chrome extensions
SCStoreWCWooCommerce plugins & extensions
FCFlowCartShopify apps & themes
AFACFAddonsAdvanced Custom Fields enhancements
About

Behind the code

WordPress engineer & product builder — crafting tools for the open web.

01

Full Stack

PHP, WordPress, Laravel, React

7+

Years of experience

Dhaka, BD

Available remote

Toptal

Vetted freelancer

Cloud

AWS hosting

The story

Seven years shipping WordPress plugins, WooCommerce extensions, and Laravel apps — for startups, agencies, and product companies.

Currently a WordPress Engineer at Toptal, building open-source tools, and running @flowplugins. Contributor to WordPress Core (6.7, 6.8).

Open for collaboration
Kamal Hosen

Currently

Consenti

Building

ACF Addons

Updating

Optiq

Live
@flowpluginsToptal

Clients

Startups · Agencies · Product companies

Connect

Open Source

WordPress Core contributor

Patches merged in 6.7 & 6.8

8 plugins shipped · Gutenberg · WP-CLI

Flow Plugins

@flowplugins

Building tools for the WordPress ecosystem

Community

WordCamp Sylhet

Organizer · 2024

Local WP Meetups

Organizer · since 2023

Core Stack & Tools

Technology I Work With

ShopifyReactNext.jsNode.jsLaravelPHPGraphQLPostgreSQLMySQLAWSREST APIsWebhooksAI AgentsRAGLangChain
Services & Expertise

What I Build

Engineering capabilities organized around real business outcomes, automated workflows, and high-performance commerce.

01

WordPress & Plugins

Custom plugins, blocks, and admin tooling built to WP Core standards.

  • Custom WordPress plugins
  • Gutenberg block development
  • WooCommerce extensions
  • REST API endpoints
  • Performance & security
02

Shopify & E-commerce

Custom storefronts, apps, and automated commerce architecture.

  • Custom Shopify themes
  • Shopify apps
  • Headless commerce
  • Shopify Plus implementation
  • CRO & performance
03

Laravel & SaaS Software

Robust web applications, APIs, and scalable software platforms.

  • SaaS platforms
  • API integrations & webhooks
  • Database architecture
  • Cloud deployment (AWS)
  • Enterprise systems
04

AI & Automation

Intelligent systems and LLM pipelines that automate workflows.

  • AI agents
  • RAG systems & knowledge bases
  • LangChain pipelines
  • LLM applications
  • Business workflow automation
Blog

Latest from the blog

How I Use Claude for WordPress Plugin Development (Real Workflow, Not Hype)
Tips

How I Use Claude for WordPress Plugin Development (Real Workflow, Not Hype)

I’ve been building WordPress plugins for over six years. For the last year or so, Claude has been part of my daily workflow. Not in the “AI does everything” way you see in Twitter threads — more like having a senior developer available at any hour who’s read every piece of WordPress documentation and has […]

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WooCommerce Hook Reference for Developers: Actions & Filters You Actually Use
WooCommerce

WooCommerce Hook Reference for Developers: Actions & Filters You Actually Use

WooCommerce has hundreds of hooks. The official documentation lists them all, which sounds helpful until you’re staring at a wall of hook names trying to figure out which one fires where you actually need it. After building WooCommerce extensions for a few years, I keep coming back to the same couple dozen. This is a […]

14 min read
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WordPress

WordPress Custom Post Types & Taxonomies: Complete Developer Guide

Custom post types are how you tell WordPress that your data isn’t a blog post. Products, events, team members, properties, courses — any content with its own structure and its own admin screen needs a custom post type. The same goes for taxonomies: if you need to categorise that content in a way that doesn’t […]

11 min read
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