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Tripad is a freelance UI\/UX designer and a closet coder. He has helped worked on a wide variety of WordPress & WooCommerce projects in the past. He is an open source enthusiast with a passion for DIY and undying love for Coffee. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alex is a known face in the WordPress Community in India, primarily because of his work as Meetup Organizer and WordCamp Organizer in Mumbai.<\/p>\n

He runs a digital agency in Mumbai which focuses on developing websites in WordPress, other than provide Inbound Marketing and SEO Services.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t

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Kushal\u00a0is a Frontend Engineer at\u00a0GitLab<\/a>\u00a0for past 2 years and is maintainer of both GitLab CE and EE. His job includes working mainly in Plan and Portfolio Management side of things in GitLab EE, he also is a Merge Request Coach (i.e. assisting community contributors in contributing to GitLab). Prior to GitLab, he worked at\u00a0Saba Software<\/a>\u00a0for over 4 years designing enterprise webapps on Learning (LMS), Talent and Certification domains, with extensive experience working with ExtJS at scale and migration of ExtJS apps to React and Angular 2. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When not writing code, he’s mostly playing games on PS4, flashing Android custom ROMs, exploring Linux distros, watching gadgets on YouTube, playing acoustic guitar, movies, and a short road trip to a hill nearby.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSaurabh Dixit\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
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Saurabh is a Software Engineer lead and mentor at Axelerant. His forte is web development with WordPress and he\u2019s contributed various WordPress plugins to the community\u2014with several plugins are having 50K+ active installs. He spends one-third of his work hours contributing to Open Source technology and spends all of his free time with his wife and baby girl.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t

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Imran’s WordPress journey began in 2015, where he started learning WordPress and Javascript. <\/p>\n

Imran is a Translation Contributor, Plugin and Theme Developer currently associated with rtCamp. He received inspiration from Sayed Taqui, a core contributor to WordPress projects and also Imran’s mentor. He also has experience in Node and React and Laravel.<\/p>\n

Apart from this, Imran has a passion for teaching and sharing knowledge which led him to start his YouTube<\/a> channel in 2013, where he teaches Programming on WordPress and Laravel.  <\/p>\n

Openness and inclusiveness is something he dearly loves about the WordPress community.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMakarand Mane\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
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Makarand is WordPress enthusiast, working on WordPress from last 7 years. From label of full freelance status he now turned into Agency with special brand for WordPress Service known as WPGenius<\/a>.in<\/a>  
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Although WordPress is built with PHP, Makarand learnt PHP and jQuery after he started using WordPress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Makarand is General translation editor for Marathi language and active in the polyglot community. Outside of WordPress, he loves travelling visiting new places, programming workshops in colleges, trying new things and spiritual practice.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t

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Anam Hossain is a passionate WordPress Developer and developing at ThemeXpert for 3+ years. He likes to play with the technology and implement those into themes and plugins. On weekends he tries to contribute to the WordPress community and helps to solve problems in the WordPress Forums.
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Developer from St. Lucia (In the Caribbean)…I work as the product manager of Revive Old Posts from Revive Social, which is a product owned by ThemeIsle.<\/p>\n

I’ve been working with ThemeIsle for about 2+ years, WordPress has changed my life and because of it I’ve been able to attend WordCamp US, WordCamp EU twice, and now WordCamp Pune.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tVachan Kudmule\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
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Vachan became an entrepreneur in 2002, at 17, when he started his firmKDC<\/a>. It has grown into a full-fledged web solutions agency.<\/span><\/p>\n

He\u2019s studied architecture and started his second firm KDC Inc in 2006 which provides architecture and interior design solutions.<\/span><\/p>\n

He ventured into eCommerce Consulting in 2009 and started\u00a0KDC Pay<\/a>\u00a0which assists startups in building full-fledged eCommerce sites with Payment Gateway onboarding and integration.<\/span><\/p>\n

At present Vachan is involved with all the three while also heading the design and technology teams for\u00a0White Shadows<\/a>, a digital marketing agency &\u00a0KDC eduVents<\/a>, the parent firm of\u00a0FOSS.tech<\/a>; an initiative to assist the FOSS community to grow.<\/span><\/p>\n

Vachan\u2019s motto is \u201ceverything can and must be designed<\/i><\/b>\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

He\u2019s passionate about FOSS (Free Open Source Software) and helping start-ups grow their business.<\/span><\/p>\n

Self-learning and exploring new ideas keeps him motivated, and he has pioneered many industry-first concepts in alternative access mediums.<\/span><\/p>\n

He\u2019s presently experimenting with Native Mobile App Development.<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t

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Harshvardhan Pawar is Digital Marketer with 8+ Years of Experience. He is currently working as Freelancer and as a consultant at Campus Times Media, All Angles Software Solutions and Avail Advertising. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He has started the YouTube channel “<\/a>Digital Marketing Marathi<\/a><\/em><\/strong>“<\/a> to provide information about Digital Marketing to Marathi audience.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t

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Business Manager at Hummingbird Web Solutions Pvt. Ltd. Manage the WordPress division at Hummingbird. Look after CyberChimps.com, WPEka.com and SlideDeck.com.<\/p>\n

Digital Marketer, WordPress theme\/plugin developer, Past WordCamp speaker.<\/p>\n

Blogs at jiteshpatil.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Prasad works with rtCamp<\/a> – an enterprise-grade WordPress agency which is also one of WordPress.com VIP partner. In his 9 years journey at rtCamp, he has been involved in different roles such as theme development, plugin development, hiring, firing, project management & project delivery. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

His current role at rtCamp is VP – Delivery. Prasad has also contributed to WordPress as a core contributor, plugin developer & translations contributor<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t

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Sujay is co-founder and mastermind of Brainstorm Force, a WordPress products development company that has introduced several successful WordPress products such as Astra theme, Ultimate Addons, Convert Pro, Schema Pro and CartFlows.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His WordPress plugins and themes collectively power more than 2 million WordPress websites.
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPriyanka Behera\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
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Priyanka is native of Odisha India, currently providing WordPress development through Multidots. She is using and working in the WordPress platform since 2013. She was the Organizer of first WordCamp Ahmedabad 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In her free time, she likes to write blogs related to traveling, contributes to the community and photography.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tKarthikraj Magapu\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
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Karthikraj is Co-Founder and Chief Explorer of Hummingbird Web Solutions (http:\/\/hbwsl.com<\/a>), which builds and supports products for Web developers and Web Designers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hummingbird offers WordPress themes (http:\/\/cyberchimps.com<\/a>), WordPress plugins (http:\/\/wpeka.com<\/a>,\u00a0http:\/\/slidedeck.com<\/a>) and a SAAS commerce CRO tool (http:\/\/humcommerce.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He also practices Yoga, loves Open Source, and still hopes he will one day learn to ride a Unicycle \ud83d\ude42
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Based out of Pune, Vikram is a WordPress Developer & Business Consultant. With over 11 years of experience, the field of Web Development, WordPress and Business Consulting \u2013 Vikram spends most of the time creating beautiful websites and helping businesses run online smoothly. He has helped many startups, non-IT businesses & SMEs in implementing new business practices, integrating IT systems to existing setup and leverage web & cloud-based technologies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An MBA by qualification, he started programming during his high school days. After exploring numerous platforms and technologies, he finally settled on WordPress based development and customisations. He is the founder of Kulkarni Technologies<\/a> (formerly VIKCON).<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t

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Vaidehi is currently working in a market research company as a Digital Marketer. But above all, there are two things that she can’t live without. One is her blogs and another is Kathak. She extremely loves WordPress as it helped her in reinventing herself both personally as well as professionally.<\/p>\n\n\n

To know more, visit her personal blog, Vaidus World<\/a> or follow her on Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t

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Ionut is a young entrepreneur running several small & medium businesses with the help of a 20+ person team. His WordPress journey started with the launch of CodeinWP in 2012, a year later ThemeIsle was born.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fast forward to 2019, products like Hestia, Neve or OrbitFox are used by half a million people, while CodeinWP and ThemeIsle blogs are visited by more than a million people every month.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":15329875,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/Pa1ZDV-8","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12,"url":"https:\/\/pune.wordcamp.org\/2019\/organizers\/","url_meta":{"origin":8,"position":0},"title":"Organizers","author":"Shailee Sheth","date":"June 27, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Pune WordPress Knowledge Exchange\u00a0is\u00a0a group of WordPress enthusiasts who meet at least every fortnight to discuss and learn more about WordPress through formal and informal sessions. (Meetup,\u00a0Facebook,\u00a0Twitter). We are (in no particular order): Organizers Design Wrangler Content Wrangler Swag Wrangler Venue Wrangler Website Wrangler","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pune.wordcamp.org\/2019\/files\/2018\/12\/WCPune-logo-2019-100x100-1.png?fit=100%2C100&resize=350%2C200#038;ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":19,"url":"https:\/\/pune.wordcamp.org\/2019\/code-of-conduct\/","url_meta":{"origin":8,"position":1},"title":"Code of Conduct","author":"Shailee Sheth","date":"June 27, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Purpose WordCamp Pune believes our community should be truly open for everyone. As such, we are committed to providing a friendly, safe and welcoming environment for all, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, disability, ethnicity, religion, preferred operating system, programming language, or text editor. This code of conduct outlines our expectations\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pune.wordcamp.org\/2019\/files\/2018\/12\/WCPune-logo-2019-100x100-1.png?fit=100%2C100&resize=350%2C200#038;ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pune.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pune.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pune.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pune.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15329875"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pune.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pune.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1263,"href":"https:\/\/pune.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions\/1263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pune.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}