DevXpert Labs is the experimental arm of Anup Kankale. It's a workbench where freelance client projects and self-driven experiments get built side by side, just to see how far an idea can go.
Before the lab ships anything of its own, it gives back. These are the places I contribute time and code to the open web, freely.
Credited among 875-plus contributors on a WordPress core release used by millions of sites. Code that helps everyone, owned by no one.
See the release creditsA free, open-source (GPL) plugin on the official directory. Built for a real problem, given to the whole WordPress community to install and use.
View on WordPress.orgContributing to open-source tooling beyond WordPress, pitching in on a project release for the wider developer community.
View the releaseThis part matters to me most. I contribute to WordPress core and open source without expecting anything back, because the tools I build my work on were given to me the same way. The lab is my way of paying that forward.
Client work or late-night what-if, most builds land somewhere in here.
Purpose-built plugins wired to your business logic, not a generic settings page you'll never fully use.
Custom blocks and full-site-editing patterns that feel native to the editor and are easy for your team to reach for.
Checkout tweaks, custom flows and integrations for stores that have outgrown the defaults.
Endpoints and third-party hooks that let WordPress talk cleanly to the rest of your stack.
Chatbots and LLM-powered helpers that capture leads and quietly remove repetitive busywork.
Audits, caching and the unglamorous bug-hunts that make a WordPress site fast and quiet again.
New builds get added over time, each with a link to dig in, live on WordPress.org or open on GitHub.
Built for a travel agency drowning in form submissions and priced out of a CRM. It turns Forminator and Contact Form 7 entries into trackable leads inside WordPress, with statuses, feedback notes and CSV export. Rated 5 stars.
View on WordPress.orgStarted as a "can an LLM live inside WordPress cleanly?" test. Now a free plugin for drop-in support and lead capture, minus the heavy setup.
View on GitHubA curiosity build to see how far content could route itself: an LLM automation that carries a draft from prompt to published with barely a hand on it.
View on GitHubFive years studying Computer Science, a bachelor's then a master's, followed by three to four years building software professionally and contributing to WordPress core and the wider open-source community. Somewhere in there, a pattern became hard to ignore.
The same real-world problems keep coming back, and most tools answer them by piling on complexity instead of removing it. DevXpert Labs is the response: pick one problem, understand it properly, and build the smallest thing that genuinely solves it.
A bachelor's then a master's, learning how software works from the ground up.
Three to four years shipping real software for real users and clients.
Credited as a contributor on WordPress 7.0 "Armstrong" core, and on projects like NudgeBee.
Taking the problems that keep resurfacing and solving them one focused build at a time.
DevXpert Labs is the experimental workshop of Anup Kankale, a WordPress & PHP developer from Mumbai. It's the place where client deadlines and personal what-ifs get worked out with the same care.
The lab exists for one reason: to keep asking how things actually work, then build the answer. The useful experiments become plugins and tools; the rest become lessons. Either way, something ships, usually alongside an uncountable number of cups of chai. ☕
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