Deepak Kumar

Open source

96 pull requests accepted across 8 projects, from WordPress core to a CRM in TypeScript and a Kubernetes CLI in Go. This list refreshes daily from GitHub.

• WordPress core

  3.5K stars · PHP

  Fixes committed across administration, accessibility, media, sitemaps and PHP 8.6 compatibility. Credited in the 7.1 release.

  11 committed 8 in review

  • Sitemaps: Don't return a 404 status for valid sitemap requests when the main query has no posts (opens in a new tab)
  • Media: Exclude IMG from cross-origin injection in media templates (opens in a new tab)

  All 19 pull requests On GitHub (opens in a new tab)

• Twenty

  57K stars · TypeScript

  2023 to 2024

  Open source CRM. Built the password reset and change password flows, reCAPTCHA on login, and frontend error tracking with Sentry.

  15 merged

  • GH-3652 Add forgot password on sign-in page (opens in a new tab)
  • GH-2829 Add Sentry on frontend (opens in a new tab)

  All 15 pull requests On GitHub (opens in a new tab)

• Presence API

  32 stars · PHP, JavaScript

  One of the maintainers

  Real time presence for WordPress. Performance work on polling and SQL aggregation, network wide presence over REST and WP-CLI, plus authorization, accessibility and test coverage.

  35 merged

  • perf: coalesce presence polling across tabs of the same user (opens in a new tab)
  • feat: expose network presence via REST and WP-CLI (opens in a new tab)

  All 35 pull requests On GitHub (opens in a new tab)

• kPrompt

  40 stars · Go

  AI Kubernetes CLI. Fan out across cluster contexts, LLM provider presets, detection of unused cluster resources, shell completions, and security test coverage.

  17 merged

  • feat(pipeline): fan out graph across --contexts (opens in a new tab)
  • feat(cleanup): detect unused PVCs and Services with no endpoints (opens in a new tab)

  All 17 pull requests On GitHub (opens in a new tab)

• Gutenberg

  12K stars · JavaScript, PHP

  The WordPress block editor. Fixes across DataViews, the Pattern block, date controls and component accessibility.

  10 merged 11 in review

  • Pattern block: Run autoembed() before do_blocks() (opens in a new tab)
  • DataViews: Pass the WordPress locale to the date/datetime calendar controls (opens in a new tab)

  All 21 pull requests On GitHub (opens in a new tab)

• moneymatter

  143 stars · TypeScript

  Personal finance app. Import batch history with undo and rollback, and recurring income support.

  3 merged 1 in review

  • feat: add undo/rollback for import batches (opens in a new tab)
  • feat(subscriptions): support recurring income/deposits (opens in a new tab)

  All 4 pull requests On GitHub (opens in a new tab)

• WP-CLI

  A site generator command, archive filename formats, and runcommand() documentation.

  3 merged

• BlockNote

  Block based rich text editor. List indentation and paste handling fixes.

  2 merged

• Go MySQL driver

  Exporting the date and time parsing helpers.

  1 in review

Projects

• twitter-feed-benchmark (opens in a new tab)

  Benchmarking push, pull and hybrid fan out for a Twitter style feed

• caching-proxy-server (opens in a new tab)

  A CLI that runs a caching proxy in front of any server

• type-safe-blocks (opens in a new tab)

  A TypeScript first architecture for enterprise Gutenberg blocks

• decouplix (opens in a new tab)

  Headless WordPress plugin for secure previews, webhook management and automatic CDN cache invalidation

• wp-cli-command-testing (opens in a new tab)

  Testing WP-CLI commands with PHPUnit and Behat

Experience

1. Jul 2024 to present

   Senior Software Engineer

   rtCamp

   • Worked on a travel booking platform from its rebuild off Drupal, through launch in November 2024, to 18 months in production.
   • Led the project from July 2025, supervising the engineers on it and owning pricing, business logic and architecture decisions.
   • Migrated a news group's sites, three titles and a shared hub, onto WordPress VIP.

2. Jul 2022 to Jun 2024

   Software Engineer

   rtCamp

   • Built and maintained WordPress platforms for a travel group, an automotive company (a migration off Adobe Experience Manager) and a dog adoption and e-commerce site (a headless React and GraphQL build).

3. Jan 2022 to Jun 2022

   Software Engineer Intern

   rtCamp

   • WordPress theme development in PHP and JavaScript, React and TypeScript components.

Education B.E. Computer Science, Chandigarh University, 2022.

Writing

1. 5 Sep 2026

   Testing WP-CLI Commands with PHPUnit and Behat (opens in a new tab)

2. 21 Aug 2026

   I Built a Twitter-Style Feed to Find Out What Fan-Out Actually Costs (opens in a new tab) Part 2

3. 21 Aug 2026

   Celebrities vs. The Rest of Us: Designing a Twitter-Style Feed (opens in a new tab) Part 1

4. 26 Jul 2026

   Enterprise Gutenberg Blocks: A TypeScript-First Architecture for WordPress at Scale (opens in a new tab)

5. 2 Aug 2025

   Software Architectural Patterns (opens in a new tab)

6. 16 Nov 2024

   Building a Caching Proxy Server in Node (opens in a new tab)

7. 2 Nov 2024

   Building a CLI app in Node.js (opens in a new tab)