About
Kamal
Hosen.
I build products, then the teams and systems that keep them running.
- Shipping since
- 2018
- 8+ years
- Now
- CTO
- Awe Design Studio
- Products live
- 4
- my own products
- Toptal
- Top 3%
- vetted network
The short version
I started in 2018 building WordPress sites and plugins for clients. Tinkering with PHP turned into a career across agencies, product teams and Toptal: Happy Monster, Awe Design Studio, Six2Eight.
Along the way I worked on Happy Elementor Addons (400K+ installs), led a headless WordPress build with React, shipped Laravel apps, and kept publishing plugins on WordPress.org.
Now I lead technology as CTO at Awe Design Studio and build my own products: ACF Addons, InspectDev, Inventory Buddy, and ClipMind. I ship them with coding agents running in parallel, and next I'm going deeper on infrastructure and DevOps.
Full career changelog →Toolbox
- PHP
- Plugins
- WooCommerce
- Gutenberg blocks
- REST API
- Headless WP
- Orca
- Claude Code
- Codex
- OpenCode
- Next.js
- React
- TypeScript
- Astro
- Tailwind
- Vue
- Node.js
- Laravel
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- SQLite
- Swift
- SwiftUI
- Flutter
- Cloudflare
- Docker
- GitHub Actions
- Git
- UI design
- Performance
- Developer experience
WordPress.org
Contributor badges, plus organizing WordCamp Sylhet 2024 and local WordPress meetups.
WordCamp Sylhet, the write-up →- Core Contributor2024
- WordCamp Organizer2024
- Meetup Organizer2024
- Test Contributor2024
- Plugin Developer2022
- Theme Developer2022
- Pattern Author2022
- Photo Contributor2022
- Translation Editor2021
- Translation Contributor2021
How I work
Ship quality, not complexity.
Simple under the hood: clean architecture and readable code that solves the problem without over-engineering.
Users first, always.
Performance, accessibility and usability are requirements from day one, not polish at the end.
Built to last.
Tested, documented, well-structured software doesn't need a rewrite every two years.