Scouting report
Dominican backend/Linux engineer shipping PHP integrations and a WordPress plugin
assessed from open-source footprint
A 14-year GitHub veteran with a backend/DevOps focus (PHP, Shell, Vim Script) and a Linux/*nix bent. His most concrete OSS is practical: ciqb-integration, a CodeIgniter + QuickBooks Online SDK integration (7 stars, his most-starred repo), and the PE Category Filter WordPress plugin. The footprint is small (9 original repos, 8 total stars) and roughly half-dormant (abandonedRatio 0.56), but the work shows real systems-integration and plugin-maintenance experience rather than demos.
Authorship & open source
What they build
Industry experience
- Web & CMS
- Developer Tools
- Fintech & Payments
Signal breakdown
8
top repo 7
9
10% forks
12
14 yr
4
Active
56% stale
Strengths
- Verified author — wrote 100% of commits on ciqb-integration
- 19 merged pull requests
- Original builder — 9 of their own repositories
- Ships to production — 4 live demos
- Backend focus with DevOps
- Domain experience in Web & CMS & Developer Tools
- Core stack: PHP, Shell, Vim Script
About
Skills
- PHP
- Shell
- Vim Script
Featured work
Ciqb Integration
CodeIgniter + QuickBooks Online PHP SDK Integration
- PHP
by Pavel Espinal
PE Category Filter
Github home for the WordPress Category Filter plugin
- PHP
by Pavel Espinal
vimrc
PHP development oriented .vimrc file.
- Vim Script
by Pavel Espinal
Slackware Es Theme
WordPress theme for the Spanish version of the Slackware Linux project's website.
- PHP
by Pavel Espinal
Hyperdrive Test
Disposable PoC using Cloudflare Workers + Hono + Hyperdrive (through private tunnel)
- Code
by Pavel Espinal
Bank Statements
Bash tools for bank statements generation.
- Shell
by Pavel Espinal