Profiles

Bio

I’m Md Aminul Islam — known online as @theaminulai. I’m an engineer, designer, and philosophy enthusiast with a deep passion for the art of coding. I believe great software isn’t just built — it’s a dream thoughtfully realized.

I work across the stack, mostly with JavaScript, React, WordPress, PHP, Next.js, and REST APIs. I care about clean architecture, performance optimization, and accessibility-first design — always striving to create experiences that feel intuitive and genuinely user-friendly.

Find me around the web as Aminul Islam (@theaminulai) or at theaminul.com.

WordPress Origin Story

2019: Started using WordPress (October 2019).

2020: Built my first website with WordPress 4.9.
2020: Completed training in Advanced WordPress Development.
2020: Created my portfolio website on WordPress.

2021: Started freelancing as a WordPress Developer.
2021: Began a full-time career in the WordPress industry, where I continue to work today. For example:
— ElementsKit Lite: https://wordpress.org/plugins/elementskit-lite/
— GutenKit Blocks: https://wordpress.org/plugins/gutenkit-blocks-addon/

2025: Began contributing on WordPress.org as a First-Time Contributor #71775 — Gutenberg 21.8 (October 2025): https://make.wordpress.org/core/2025/10/08/whats-new-in-gutenberg-21-8-08-october/ .
2025: Attended WordCamp Dhaka, participated in seminars, and engaged in other community activities.
2025: Joined the Contributor Day of WordCamp Dhaka.
🤖 Last contribution of the year (Nov 2025): Pull request merged in WordPress AI Team — included in AI Experiments plugin v0.1.0: https://make.wordpress.org/ai/2025/11/27/announcing-the-ai-experiments-plugin-v0-1-0/

2026: Started contributing to the WordPress Performance Team. Submitted my first (PR #2281) to the Performance repository, which was successfully merged.

Badges

CODE
8 badges
C Core AI Contributor '25 Core Contributor '25 C Core Performance Contributor '26 Hosting Contributor '25 Meta Contributor '25 Pattern Author '25 Plugin Developer Theme Developer
CONTENT
1 badge
Photo Contributor '25
PRACTICE
1 badge
Accessibility Contributor '25
POLYGLOTS
2 badges
Translation Contributor '25 Translation Editor '25

Current Job

Front End Engineer ||
Present
Roxnor

Recent impact

Score weights high-impact work (commits, releases, approved translations, props) at 3x routine activity.

Last 30 days
24contributions
high3
medium21
score30
Last 90 days
60contributions
high29
medium31
score118
Last 12 months
116contributions
high57
medium59
score230

Team focus

Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

WordPress releases

Contributed to 1 release
  • 6.9

Time commitment

10 hours per week
  • On my own time 10 hrs/wk

Contributions

Type
October 2026
Oct 05 Mon · 17:10
GitHub high
Pull request #1088 merged into WordPress/ai:
Document the architecture and developer-facing APIs for Embeddings
Oct 05 Mon · 15:40
Core med
Closed pull request #83100 on WordPress/gutenberg:
Interactivity API Router: Add navigation lifecycle state
Oct 05 Mon · 12:39
Core high
Pull request #83092 merged into WordPress/gutenberg:
Interactivity API: Add a data-wp-html directive
Oct 02 Fri · 03:26
GitHub med
Submitted pull request #1100 to WordPress/ai:
Add core/comments-query ability: single-comment lookup by ID
Oct 01 Thu · 16:01
GitHub med
Submitted pull request #1088 to WordPress/ai:
Document the architecture and developer-facing APIs for Embeddings
September 2026
Sep 29 Tue · 14:03
GitHub high
Pull request #1040 merged into WordPress/ai:
Fix: AI Request Logs record HTTP error responses (4xx/5xx) as success
Sep 25 Fri · 13:02
Core med
Submitted pull request #83532 to WordPress/gutenberg:
CSS line-height values must be unit-less
Sep 25 Fri · 12:30
Core med
Submitted pull request #83530 to WordPress/gutenberg:
Fix endless sideload loop when the browser can't decode a big image
Sep 24 Thu · 15:29
Core med
Submitted pull request #83499 to WordPress/gutenberg:
Block Editor: let plugins register custom Inspector tabs
Sep 19 Sat · 14:16
Forums med
Created a topic, FluentCRM database index repair fails with “Specified key was too long”, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hello, I am getting a database error when FluentCRM…

Developer

4 plugins

Contributor

1 plugin

Themes

1 theme