Where curiosity turns into working code.
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.
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.
One real problem at a time.
Five years studying Computer Science, a bachelor's then a master's, followed by four years of corporate job experience 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.
Five years of Computer Science
A bachelor's then a master's, learning how software works from the ground up.
Corporate experience
Four years of corporate job experience, shipping real software for real users and clients.
Giving back to open source
Credited as a contributor on WordPress core releases 7.0 "Armstrong" and 7.1 "Mary Lou", plus projects like NudgeBee.
Turning problems into tools
Taking the problems that keep resurfacing and solving them one focused build at a time.
Contributing to the community, no strings attached.
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.
WordPress 7.1 "Mary Lou"
Credited among 800-plus contributors on the latest WordPress core release (August 2026), shipped to millions of sites worldwide.
See the release creditsWordPress 7.0 "Armstrong"
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 creditsDevXpert Lead Dashboard
A 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.orgNudgeBee v1.3.0
Contributing 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.
Want to build something together?
A client project, a plugin idea, or a "could we actually build this?" Bring it to the bench.