{"id":879,"date":"2019-02-11T18:11:47","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T12:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2019.pune.wordcamp.org\/?post_type=wcb_speaker&#038;p=879"},"modified":"2019-02-13T17:46:36","modified_gmt":"2019-02-13T12:16:36","slug":"vachan-kudmule","status":"publish","type":"wcb_speaker","link":"https:\/\/pune.wordcamp.org\/2019\/speaker\/vachan-kudmule\/","title":{"rendered":"Vachan Kudmule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif\">Vachan became an entrepreneur in 2002, at 17, when he started his firm<a href=\"https:\/\/kdc.in\/?utm_medium=speaker&amp;utm_source=wcp19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/kdc.in\/?utm_medium%3Dspeaker%26utm_source%3Dwcp19&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1549975245584000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGH6LTRlWg9lk3TPVy73nbwgd8hTQ\">KDC<\/a>. It has grown into a full-fledged web solutions agency.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif\">He\u2019s studied architecture and started his second firm KDC Inc in 2006 which provides architecture and interior design solutions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif\">He ventured into eCommerce Consulting in 2009 and started\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/gateway.kdcpay.com\/consult\/?utm_medium=speaker&amp;utm_source=wcp19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/gateway.kdcpay.com\/consult\/?utm_medium%3Dspeaker%26utm_source%3Dwcp19&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1549975245584000&amp;usg=AFQjCNH9DC5CThzwjuc7b0Sd-aoTwKXSWg\">KDC Pay<\/a>\u00a0which assists startups in building full-fledged eCommerce sites with Payment Gateway onboarding and integration.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif\">At present Vachan is involved with all the three while also heading the design and technology teams for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ws.ai\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/ws.ai\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1549975245584000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGZrv4NHpde7XTsTk9M9CzdC4K0jQ\">White Shadows<\/a>, a digital marketing agency &amp;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/eduvents.co\/?utm_medium=speaker&amp;utm_source=wcp19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/eduvents.co\/?utm_medium%3Dspeaker%26utm_source%3Dwcp19&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1549975245584000&amp;usg=AFQjCNG4ehak_Ui1rFSt5-x2vsH_DyD95A\">KDC eduVents<\/a>, the parent firm of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/foss.tech\/?utm_medium=speaker&amp;utm_source=wcp19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/foss.tech\/?utm_medium%3Dspeaker%26utm_source%3Dwcp19&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1549975245584000&amp;usg=AFQjCNG6K6_cXQc5IjQwdYxCke5qis80cw\">FOSS.tech<\/a>; an initiative to assist the FOSS community to grow.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif\">Vachan\u2019s motto is \u201c<b><i>everything can and must be designed<\/i><\/b>\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif\">He\u2019s passionate about FOSS (Free Open Source Software) and helping start-ups grow their business.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif\">Self-learning and exploring new ideas keeps him motivated, and he has pioneered many industry-first concepts in alternative access mediums.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif\">He\u2019s presently experimenting with Native Mobile App Development.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vachan became an entrepreneur in 2002, at 17, when he started his firmKDC. It has grown into a full-fledged web solutions agency. He\u2019s studied architecture and started his second firm KDC Inc in 2006 which provides architecture and interior design solutions. He ventured into eCommerce Consulting in 2009 and started\u00a0KDC Pay\u00a0which assists startups in building &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pune.wordcamp.org\/2019\/speaker\/vachan-kudmule\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Vachan Kudmule&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7694169,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_wcpt_user_name":"vachan","footnotes":""},"speaker_group":[],"class_list":["post-879","wcb_speaker","type-wcb_speaker","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa1ZDV-eb","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ff0592894ef07993e93ef422e56196f97e7ff41a6f4e2cc285f88b12e7871a6b?s=24&d=mm&r=g","48":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ff0592894ef07993e93ef422e56196f97e7ff41a6f4e2cc285f88b12e7871a6b?s=48&d=mm&r=g","96":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ff0592894ef07993e93ef422e56196f97e7ff41a6f4e2cc285f88b12e7871a6b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","128":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ff0592894ef07993e93ef422e56196f97e7ff41a6f4e2cc285f88b12e7871a6b?s=128&d=mm&r=g","256":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ff0592894ef07993e93ef422e56196f97e7ff41a6f4e2cc285f88b12e7871a6b?s=256&d=mm&r=g","512":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ff0592894ef07993e93ef422e56196f97e7ff41a6f4e2cc285f88b12e7871a6b?s=512&d=mm&r=g"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pune.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pune.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pune.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wcb_speaker"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pune.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=879"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pune.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2077,"href":"https:\/\/pune.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/879\/revisions\/2077"}],"sessions":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pune.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/999?_embed=1&context=view"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pune.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wporg\/v1\/users\/wordcamp"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pune.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wcb_speaker_group","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pune.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker_group?post=879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}