Day 2Speakers
Omkar Bhagat
Omkar works as a Happiness Engineer at Automattic (the company behind WordPress.com). He’s a WordPress enthusiast and an illustrator. Before joining Automattic, he used to work as an illustrator for a YouTube channel called MinuteEarth to explain cool stories about our planet. Now he continues to do that on his own channel called TheCuriousEngineer which has about 70,000 subscribers and also works on his own comic strips.
Riya Parikh
Riya Parikh is student of 8th standard in st mary’s school. Couple of times she got proficiency award who stood first in school. Her area of interest is computer programming, playing tennis, playing music and reading literature. She is regularly attending WordPress meetup. She also received certification in Google Digital Marketing and Microsoft Azure. Also she is the lovely princess of his father.
Firoz Sabaliya
Firoz Sabaliya is working at Hiddenbrains Infotech Pvt Ltd. He has worked on multiple WordPress projects comprising on e-commerce, CMS, Learning management etc. He has a fantastic relationship with WordPress development which is still growing more and more and now focusing in the core area of Performance and Security. He has also comprehensive experience in cloud technologies and automation tools.
Tejaswini Deshpande
She is WordPress Developer working on WordPress since 2008 winter. She has developed more than 25 WordPress plugins and a couple of custom WordPress themes. She is also a co-founder of Webfanzine Media where she develops custom functionalities for WordPress users, She is mostly involved with development, maintenance and support to the users. Along with WordPress, she loves working on Vue.js due to its flexibility and ease of use.
Apart from work, She loves playing badminton, cricket and she runs a lot. she has a very adorable Labrador dog named Ajax and a fierce kitty named Bob, playing with them and talking about them is what She enjoy a lot.
M Asif Rahman
Asif is long time WordPress Enthusiast, Serial Entrepreneur and Tech Evangelist. He is the CEO of large WordPress product company weDevs. Asif is also Founder of A. R. Communications, Alo Ventures, WPDeveloper.net etc etc. He does read a lot and writes too, he founded The Tech Journal, The Dhaka Times etc and serving information to millions. He loves to help startups and proudly involves with Trance App, Leanplum, FutureStartUp, Geeky Social, Facebook and several other companies from their early stage. Among many other things he was an Early Google Glass Explorer, and has appeared in various (40+) WordCamps around the world. And most importantly Asif is a blessed Dad of two super cute little princesses, and husband of a lovely wife! Though now he lives at Orlando, Florida, but he is originally from Bangladesh.
Vatsal Shah
With 14 years of industry agnostic exposure and the mission of bringing transformation and enlightenment to organizations and individuals, he founded Pragmatic Consultancy and Disha Institute of Management & Communication.
He has experience in IT, E-Commerce, Strategy Planning, BPR, Branding, Sales Channels Development, People Management and CXO Coaching. He is expert in transforming IT organisations, Service Companies, SMEs, Retail Chains and Family Run Business. He has been dealing with clients in India, UK, China, USA and Africa.
@Pragmatic, he act as thinker, business coach and mentor for others and own organization. He has produced remarkable results for various clients from diverse industries like IT, E-commerce, Retail, Jewelry Manufacturing, Telecom, Fashion, Educational Institutions, BPO, etc. As a trainer he has designed courses and led various Management Development Programs for Middle management, CXO and Business Owners.
Nirav Mehta
Nirav has built a rather eventful track record over the last 18 years. He launched India’s first electronic magazine, a thriving web agency that went down in 2009, made a heroic return and recovery, then a string of successful product businesses in parallel. Nirav is the founder of StoreApps and products like icegram. He’s a published author of three books and speaks at various tech and business events.
But hey, numbers and all the claim-to-fame apart, what’s most important about him is that he is down to earth, has great knowledge and experience and loves to help. So if you have any questions about WordPress, WooCommerce; starting up, running or scaling a tech business, he’s your goto guy!
Rahul Bansal
Rahul is the founder and CEO of rtCamp – only WordPress.com VIP Partner from Asia.
His WordPress journey began in 2007 when he was looking for ways to customize his blog. Later on, he moved from professional blogging to freelancing, and from freelancing to starting rtCamp in 2009.
At work, Rahul plays multiple roles, switching between sysadmin (his favorite), to sales and everything else company demands from him.
Over the years, Rahul has contributed to the WordPress community in different ways as a WordCamp speaker, organizer, volunteer, polyglot, theme/plugins developer.
Outside of WordPress, he loves spending time with his son and is a self-proclaimed foodie.
Chetan Satasiya
Chetan Satasiya is a Sr. WordPress Developer in Multidots. Chetan loves interacting with beginners and help people by exchanging knowledge. He started his career as a WordPress Developer in 2012 with Multidots.
He started contributing to the WordPress as a core contributor for version 4.7 to latest 4.8.1 He also contributed to BuddyPress, plugins, translation contributor, editor on the Gujarati Polyglot team for WordPress. He also has recently started contributing to the WordPress Docs, Meta, WP-CLI and WordPress Support forum team.
When not working, you can find him in Slack #forums channel where he contributing the WordPress support forums.
Devin Walker
Devin Walker is the creator of several highly rated and award winning WordPress plugins. His work is actively being used by hundreds of thousands of websites and has been featured in Product Hunt, WP Tavern, Torque, and several other widely regarded online publications.
As an advocate for open source, Walker has given back extensively to the WordPress community in the form of code contributions, WordCamp and Meetup organization and speaking efforts, and fostering and supporting popular online groups like Advanced WordPress (AWP) and WordPress for Nonprofits.
As a business owner, Walker founded his WordPress company WordImpress and has grown it to a team of more than 10-employees within two years of incorporation. Popular plugins include GiveWP, the top-rated donation and fundraising platform for WordPress, WP Rollback, Google Maps Builder, Yelp Widget Pro and WooCommerce Quick Checkout. In total, his plugins on WordPress.org have been downloaded more than one million times and have accumulated more than three hundred and fifty 5-star reviews.
Outside of work, Devin enjoys traveling the world, going to concerts, and a leisurely round of golf.