Speakers

Pankaj Agrawal

Pankaj Agrawal is founder of Next Software Solutions Pvt Ltd. He has worked on several eLearning platforms and is a significant contributor to the latest eLearning standard called Experience API. GrassBlade xAPI Companion, the brain child of Pankaj, has been a great step towards bringing eLearning content from major authoring tools to WordPress that was never before possible. He believe that LMS technology needs to be significantly simplified and he finds WordPress as a great solution. With an educational background in electronics, he has been a robotics enthusiast and educator before he returned back to Nepal and found love in software.

Sakin Shrestha

Sakin Shrestha is the Founder of Catch Internet Pvt. Ltd. the company building World Class WordPress Sites and Products such as Catch Themes and Devote Press. He is been hacking into WordPress since last 6 years. When you don’t find him working on WordPress, then you will find him blogging, reviewing themes, taking photographs, traveling or playing the Guitar.

Saurabh Shukla

Saurabh Shukla is a WordPress developer. He has co-authored 5 open source plugins for WordPress with a combined download count of over 1,60,000. He is one of the creators (and till recently, was the lead developer) of rtMedia, one of the most popular plugins for BuddyPress. He is a FOSS evangelist, choice fanatic and has extra love for WordPress.

Utsav Singh Rathour

Utsav Singh Rathour is a WordPress enthusiast and a developer by passion. He bumped over WordPress some 5 years ago but let it go back then. Until he fell for it again 4 years back and since then the love has only grown. Working as senior PHP developer, he works on WordPress whenever free and keeps himself updated. He is the CEO of Code Pixelz Media and blogs at his site http://codepixelz.com for which he tweets as @codepixelzmedia while his personal twit address is @rathour

Santosh Raut

Santosh Raut is Managing Director of Ocean Web Technology where he has been developing and servicing various WordPress, Joomla and SEO projects. He has provided freelance technical support for Catalyst House as WordPress Developer for 3 years. He is also Working for Visual Reflection GmbH as a lead Joomla Developer. He has worked as freelancer in Odesk and Freelancer.com for over 3 years.

Raushan Jaiswal

Raushan Jaiswal is the Co-founder of Codewing Solutions, a digital agency which works in WordPress platform. At Codewing Solutions, Raushan manages WordPress projects and ensures standard of websites powered by WordPress. He has been using WordPress from last 2 years and is great fan of WordPress’s simplicity! Raushan calls himself a WordPress enthusiasts. He is a passionate salsa dancer and public speaker.

Roshan Bhattarai

Roshan Bhattarai has previously worked in various IT companies in Nepal and India as a Software Engineer and Technical Lead. Currently, he co-owns and is working as a CTO at Proshore. He co-authored the book PHP Ajax Cookbook from Packt Publishing. Sometime, he writes about web development stuffs on his blog as well.

Mahadev Subedi

Mahadev Subedi is an independent Security Researcher. He has been acknowledged by Google, Facebook, Mozilla, Paypal, Nokia, 37signals, GetPocket, Sproutsocial, Yahoo, Opera, Adobe, Zendesk, Kaneva, Swipely and so on for reporting several flaws in their web application and api.

Jimba Tamang

Jimba is a freelancer, a front-end web developer. Most of his waking hours are spend obsessing over innovations in IT world. Unlike people of his age, he is dedicated, focused, time oriented and a perfectionist. He loves to challenge himself. Within 8 years of his professional life, he has worked in various IT companies as a senior developer.

He has been using wordpress as a primary CMS for the last 4 years and has built 100+ custom wordpress sites/themes. Jimba is the conceptual developer of free wordpress theme “Sampression Lite“. He is an enthusiastic traveller and a music lover.

Ujwal Thapa

Ujwal (pronounced – “ooze-wol”) is a Nepali coffee farmer, activist, and an IT entrepreneur living in Nepal. He build leaders and entrepreneurs. He also provokes Nepalis to change themselves first to change Nepal. He is actively helping build “विवेकशील नेपाली” a rising political, entrepreneurial and social force which will create a peaceful, prosperous Nepal.

Chandra Maharzan

Chandra likes to call himself a hobbyist. He is mostly using the artistic side of his brain, working on creative things such as photos/videos and music. He has founded a tiny company—Nhuja Concepts to work on small ideas on the web of which building unique, minimalist and revolutionary WordPress themes has been pretty successful. He has also partnered with a top WordPress theme shop—Graph Paper Press. He has to his credits being mentioned as one of the top 7 amazing theme designers in 2009, several of his themes being listed as top 100 free themes for 2010 by Smashing Magazine and one of his themes being used by various Mozilla blogs. His theme “Gridspace”, made for Graph Paper Press, has been trending as Top 10 Most Popular theme at WordPress.com since a year and most recently Chandra has been interviewed by CodePoet, an Automattic run library of resources and inspiration.

Philip Aurthur Moore

Philip Arthur Moore is the Premium Theme Team lead at Automattic, Inc., where he spends the majority of his waking hours feverishly obsessing over making premium themes a world-class experience for all WordPress users. Philip is a third culture adult, global nomad, music lover, and comedy fanatic.