Speakers

  • Abhishek Deshpande

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    Abhishek is a web technology consultant based in Nagpur, currently working as Solutions Architect at Peenak Solutions with 10+ years of experience in Web Development, Digital Marketing across various domains.

    Abhishek started with his WordPress version 1.8 as a blogger in 2006. He has been active in the WordPress Community for the last six years. He is a serial WordCamper and Twitter addict, and you can find him on Twitter at any random hour.

    Abhishek will be speaking at WordCamp Kochi 2019 on the topic – Let Amazon Alexa talk about your WordPress Content

  • Aditya Kane

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    Aditya works on the WordPress Community Team. He has lived much of his life in the two cities of Mumbai and Pune in India. He loves reading books and secretly wants to be a world-famous philosopher. He believes that the core tenets of Open Source culture and philosophy should make its way into education, politics, law, economics and more.

    Aditya will be presenting a lightning session on the topic Building and nurturing a local open-source community

  • Aditya Shah

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    His passion for WordPress began in 2012, and ever since then, he hasn’t looked back. An avid contributor in the WordPress community, he is currently employed as a support superhero at WPMUDEV.

    Aditya will be speaking at WordCamp Kochi on the topic – Website Optimization – The Right Way

  • Ajay Aravind

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    An Entrepreneur in love with WordPress, Founder and C.E.O. of Midnay, A specialist WordPress Agency from Kozhikode.

    Ajay has been working around WordPress for 12 years as a developer, architect, assistant. advisory, community member and many more roles which makes people smile with WordPress and its principles.

    Ajay will be presenting a lightning session on the topic – Building a WordPress Agency

  • Anitaa Murthy

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    A software developer from Chennai, India, Anitaa is a member of the Automattic mobile team where she works on WordPress and WooCommerce for Android apps. She has previously worked in multiple startups in and around India – where she specialized in building mobile apps related to advertising and payment at Airloyal and Brontoo.

    Anitaa will be speaking at WordCamp Kochi 2019 on the topic – Contributing to the WordPress mobile apps

  • Gaurav Srivastava

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    Blogs in Hindi at Digitalgaurav.in. Co-founder and trainer at Digi Path A Premier Digital marketing institute.WordPress Polyglot, TEDx Hindi translator. Podcasts a Hindi Digital Marketing Show. Apart from PC, Books are the major shareholder of my time.

  • Hardeep Asrani

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    Hardeep Asrani is a developer and Star Wars fan from Kanpur. He loves contributing to the WordPress community in many ways, including support, themes, plugins and more. You can find him on Slack pretty much all the time exploring different parts of the WordPress community.

    Hardeep will be taking a workshop on – Building Blocks for Gutenberg

  • Imran Sayed

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    Imran is a Web Engineer at rtCamp. He is also a WordCamp Speaker, Meetup Organizer, and a regular contributor to the open-source community. He has a rich experience in GraphQL, Node, React and Laravel.

    He is also the author of the popular Twenty Nineteen WordPress theme ported over to Frontity in React. Apart from this, Imran has a great passion for teaching and sharing knowledge. You can check out his YouTube channel, where he teaches Programming. As a hobby, Imran likes to write blogs on Medium and has a passion for photography.

    Imran will be taking a workshop on – Building a WordPress Site in React in 30 Min – with Frontity

  • Jack Lenox

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     Jack is an Engineer on the WordPress VIP team at Automattic. He is very interested in environmental issues and is currently studying for an MSc in Sustainability and Behaviour Change. He is also a parliamentary candidate for the Green Party of England and Wales.

    Jack will be live-streaming his session and will introduce all of you on the topic – How better performing websites can help save the planet

  • Kumar Abhirup

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    Kumar is a 16-year-old JavaScript React Developer who builds cool projects since 2018. He’s specialized in building full-stack applications that use React in frontend and GraphQL in the backend.

    Kumar will be speaking at WordCamp Kochi on the topic – Headless WordPress with React

  • Md Saif Hassan

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    Saif is currently working as a Product Manager at weDevs. He’s a passionate speaker; you can find him in Bangladesh talking about WordPress, community & open-source projects.

    He is an entrepreneur at heart as he founded his own managed WordPress hosting company by 17. Deeply passionate about technologies that make human lives more comfortable.  A longtime WordPress enthusiast, he believes that websites and the tools used to build them should be well crafted, intuitive, and accessible.

    Saif possesses excellent knowledge of Human-Computer Interaction and loves building products that users love to use.

    His session on WordCamp Kochi will be on the topic – Human Computer interaction 101

  • Menaka S

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    Currently working at Automattic’s WooCommerce division as Code Wrangler, she started developing software 22 years back and have been intermittently working on research projects and as a developer. Menaka has a PhD in Natural Language Processing, and enjoy all aspects of working with software – development, testing and support.

    She has been working with WordPress for the past 7 years, of which the last 2 years have been in WooCommerce.

    Menaka is going to speak on the topic – Local WordPress Development – What, Why and How

  • Prathamesh Palve

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    Prathamesh Palve works as a Support Ninja with WPMU DEV. He has been working on WordPress from 2009 since he started making websites. He has worked with a few companies in India in the past, and also ran a small web development firm in Mumbai. He loves the open-source culture and also contributes by doing translations in Marathi and Hindi for many themes and plugins. He is also an avid WordPress.tv contributor.

    At WordCamp Kochi 2019, Prathamesh will be delivering a session on the topic Remote Work, WordPress & Life.

  • Rohan Sadanandan

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    He has been using WordPress for more than 10 years. Prior to joining OnTheGoSystems, he was working as a PHP Web Developer & has developed hundreds of sites in WordPress over a span of 10 years, and have developed many custom themes & plugins in WordPress, and likes to experiment, discuss & contribute to the WordPress community.

    Currently working at OnTheGoSystems(the company behind WPML & Toolset) as WordPress Technical Support Engineer for the WPML plugin. His job is to provide technical support for the customers using the WPML plugin to ensure that their website is running smooth & without any issues.

    Rohan will be talking at WordCamp Kochi, on the topic – Internationalization & Localization

  • Sathish Kumar

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    Sathish is a Senior Accessibility Consultant working at Deque Software, Hyderabad. He’s a passionate accessibility evangelist spreading awareness of inclusivity and accessibility across the globe.

    His session on WordCamp Kochi will cover on the topic – Anatomy of Accessible forms

  • Saurabh Gupta

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    Saurabh is a Tech enthusiast with over a decade of experience in the software industry. His focus areas and expertise are around DevOps, Cloud Automation, Containers, Kubernetes and Security. He’s currently associated with DigitalOcean as a Sr.Developer Advocate, and you can find him often speaking at communities, and conferences.

    Session – DevOps & Open Source: Marriage made in Heaven

  • Shifa Shaji

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    Shifa started her career as a PHP developer, and eventually, got hooked to the world of WordPress. Her career in WordPress started after joining Appmaker.xyz. and ultimately setting footsteps in plugin development.

    Shifa will be presenting a lightning session on the topic – WordPress REST API Integration

  • Sudeep S

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    Sudeep is a technological enthusiast who has a great passion for working on codes and designs. Coding gives the greatest joy to him. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Language and Literature but holds extraordinary love for engineering.

    Whatever he has learned or achieved so far is a result of his hard work and perseverance, he believes that learning by oneself is more fun and experimenting can teach you a lot more than textbooks.

    His talk on Malayalam will be for the topic – What Is WordPress and How to get started with it