WordCamp Kerala 2023

Speakers

  • Aditya Kane

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    I believe that the core tenets of open-source culture and philosophy should make its way into education, politics, law, economics and more.

    I have been working as a marketing professional and also community builder for the past 13 years in the WordPress ecosystem. I have worked as a community team deputy for Make WordPress since 2015 and have been sponsored in the past to work full time for a couple of years on the community team for WordPress.org project.

    I have also worked with rtCamp – a WordPress agency where I worked on their content, strategy and also on developing training material for onboarding new employees via their training platform.

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  • Akshat Choudhary

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    Akshat Choudhary is the Founder and CEO of BlogVault, MalCare and WP Remote – successful WordPress plugins designed for complete website management. He has always prided himself on his ability to teach himself things. Since starting BlogVault, Akshat has transformed his side-project into a profitable venture that is scaling new heights in the Indian startup space. As a member of the WordPress community for almost a decade, Akshat’s core belief when building any product is to ensure the end-user doesn’t need assistance and to assist them in the best possible manner if they do.Sessio

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  • Akshaya Rane

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    Akshaya started her career in WordPress in 2013 as a WordPress developer. Currently, she is working as Team Lead at WisdmLabs.
    She helps small, and Medium size businesses, and B2B partners in achieving their business goals, ensuring projects get delivered with quality output within the deadline. She participated in meetups, WordCamps, Contributor day events, the WordPress Community Giveaway program, etc. She is a core contributor and is happy to be part of an exciting & enthusiastic WordPress community.Sessions

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  • Alexander Gounder

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    Alexander runs Ink my web, a digital agency specializing WordPress development and inbound marketing in India. He has been fostering the local community for some time now, by organizing WordCamp Mumbai since 2014, as well as the WordPress Mumbai MeetUp Group.Sessions

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  • Anooja Bashir

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    Anooja is a serial entrepreneur, acclaimed marketing & brand strategist, business leader & coach, startup mentor to more than 15+ incubators, Startup’s & SME’s. Featured in Forbes, Entrepreneur and Fortune India for her incredible achievement in the field of innovation & strategies, she is also the Co-Founder & CMO of FlexiCloud, a managed cloud hosting solution integrating public cloud with 24*7 continuous support. She has won multiple awards as 40 under 40 awardee for being Women in Tech. She is multiple times TedX Speaker, Josh Speaker and Speaker to various National and International forums. Anooja is also a CII -IWN State president for Branding, WICCI National for branding & marketing council along with President, Womennovator, Kerala. She is passionate about empowering woman & children in action, and also works hard to facilitate DEIB (Diversity Equity Inclusion and Belonging) in technology and community spaces.

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  • Aravind Ajith

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    Aravind Ajith is the CEO of the cloud product studio Awsm Innovations. He has guided a team of WordPress core contributors for the past two decades and his philosophy of being happy while spreading happiness is instrumental in the company having delighted clients and enthusiastic employees.

    It was his vision to create a happy, creative workspace that had ended up with reputed WP plugins like WP Job Openings, AWSM Team and Embed AnyDocument and blog WP-Content.co. He is a familiar face at WordPress gatherings and is an active member of the Kerala WordPress community organizing, sponsoring and attending WordCamps and meetups.  

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  • Arun R Shenoy

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    Arun R Shenoy is a Software Engineer at Newfold Digital who has been revolutionizing the WordPress user experience for over a year. Specializing in the latest WordPress technology, such as Site Editor and Block Themes, Arun is dedicated to creating cutting-edge solutions on WordPress that exceed user expectations. With a proven track record of expertise in Node.js, Python, PHP, React and WordPress development, he is always striving to improve and innovate. Beyond his love for technology, Arun also enjoys playing Badminton and the Violin.Sessions

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  • Asha Anie Bose

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    Asha is the Co-organizer of Magento Meetup Kochi, Senior Magento Developer at Ceymox.

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  • Ashutosh Gaur

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    Ashutosh has been a part of the startup ecosystem since the age of 22. In 10 years he founded two IT firms and an online radio portal. He currently heads his online radio platform called Riddleman FM and his agency called Riddleman Tech. Creating content and music is Ashutosh’s outlet to cool down, and he believes that ideas are in the air, pick one and start building. This belief has made him help many startups with a roadmap for go-to-market strategy

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  • Deepak Pathania

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    Deepak is a full-stack developer with a proven record of building scalable products and leading high-performing teams. He currently leads the developer productivity team for WooCommerce Payments at Automattic, a distributed organization focused on making the web a better place.

    He is passionate about developer experience and frequently shares his learnings with the community through speaking at conferences and meetups. Deepak is also a seasoned hacker – has won 10+ hackathons and co-founded HackSociety – a platform to organize and discover hackathons all over the country.

    In his free time, Deepak enjoys reading about startups, technology and manga.Sessions

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  • Dominyka Miksenaite

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    Dominyka is the Community Manager at Hostinger, a web hosting provider on a mission to help everyone succeed online.

    Although she had always appreciated WordPress, since attending WCEU 2022, the WordPress community has become the center of her life. This led her to create a position for herself at Hostinger as the first Community Manager, and her life has never been the same.

    A digital nomad, Dominyka moves around the globe forever pursuing summer. Because of this, she understands the weight of Hostinger’s mission. Delivering dependable and robust hosting makes it possible for herself and others to live out their horizon-seeking lives.

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  • Gijo Varghese

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    A web performance enthusiast. Founder of FlyingPress. I write on http://wpspeedmatters.com

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  • Hardik Gohil

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    I am working with Incsub LLC – WPMU Dev as an ISTQB Certified QA Engineer with 10+ years of profound experience in quality assurance and quality control. I am passionate about software testing and QA as I strongly believe in delivering quality work to the end-user and making the world a better place.

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  • Hitha C K

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  • Karan Desai

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    Karan Desai leads a team of Solutions Architects at AWS in India. He has 13 years of tech industry experience including 7 years at AWS in the US and India during which he has designed secure, cost-efficient cloud architectures for more than 500 companies. Prior to AWS he has worked at Akamai where he built cloud infrastructure solutions for some of the world’s largest media companies such as Facebook, Disney, Verizon and more. He is actively engaged with AWS users community across India and South Asia, and an experienced public speaker having presented at top tech conferences in the US, UK, Singapore and India.

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  • Kavya Gokul

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    Kavya is a seasoned WordPress professional with over 12 years of experience in the web and internet industry. She’s donned various hats during here career, including co-founder, software developer, designer, and has been working as a Happiness engineer at Automattic for 6 years now.

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  • Lax Mariappan

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    Lax is a web developer, Open Source enthusiast, and lover of all things WordPress. Lax has been tinkering with websites since high school but it all changed when he discovered WordPress in 2010. When unplugged, he reads a lot and enjoys traveling around the PhilippinesSessions

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  • M Asif Rahman

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    M Asif Rahman is an accomplished leader and entrepreneur who has been recognized with the prestigious TOYP 2022 Award. He is the founding President of JCI Dhaka Founders, has demonstrated exceptional leadership in fostering growth and development in the community, and has been instrumental in the establishment and growth of over 25 pioneering companies through visionary leadership and strategic investments. Asif has a track record of success in the technology industry, with a focus on software, media, IT service, consumer technology, agrotech, food, crowdsourcing, social networking, content marketing, analytics, and many others. He is also a regular speaker at international conferences and is well-known in the business startup community for discovering and mentoring high-potential entrepreneurs.

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  • Mujeebu Rehman

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    I am a developer who has been in the WordPress ecosystem for nearly a decade. I work at Mozilor Technologies as a Senior Developer and Product Owner, providing solutions to help people simplify their work in their businesses.

    I firmly believe in the community, learning from it, and giving back to it as much as possible. I am an active member of the community and have been contributing to WordPress core and StackOverflow. My WordPress and Slack handle is @mujuonly.

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  • Namith Jawahar

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    In Love with WordPress since 2009. I am primarily a Plugin Developer who also find everything within the WordPress eco system interesting.

    I have worked on over a thousand WordPress themes and plugins and been part of teams of all sizes from one person companies to the biggest MNCs on WordPress driven projects.

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  • Nathan D’Mello

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    I am passionate about helping SMB’s and Individuals succeed online. With over 8 years of experience in the web presence industry, I have had the opportunity to work on a variety of WordPress projects for businesses and organizations of all sizes, helping them establish and enhance their online presence. In addition to my WordPress development experience, I have also provided technical support for web hosting, email hosting, domain names and other related products.

    Currently, I serve as a Product Manager for Bluehost India, where I work on products and solutions specifically designed around WordPress and WooCommerce to equip small businesses with the tools and support they need to establish and grow their web presence.Sessions

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  • Nikita Sawarkar

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    I have 7+ years of technical writing experience. I have also worked for National Informatics Centre (NIC), Pune as Technical Writer. I currently work as a CMO at WPMudra Solutions. I have pursued Masters in Computer Technology. When I am not a workaholic, I pursue Kathak dance form. I have recently developed an interest in contributing photos and patterns projects in make.wordpress.Sessions

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  • Nisha Elza

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    Nisha Elza is the Managing Director of Talk Digital, a subsidiary of Talk Digital Australia, with a background in software development. She has shown strong leadership and helped the company expand to Infopark, India. Focused on innovation and adaptability, Nisha and her team work on products and projects aimed at solving real-world problems. Their goal is to make Talk Digital a global leader in business process digitisation. 

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  • Prince Kumar

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    An almost no-code code generalist, helping businesses with their online presence using WordPress and other tools and simplify some of their operations with spreadsheet and automation. A psychology and philosophy geek by interest and an almost graduate by luck who founded hmhub during college, which got him into WordPress.Session

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  • Rajendra Zore

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    Rajendra Zore is the CMO & Product Strategist at RunCloud where he leads growth and community. He is also the founder and lead WordPress consultant at Host My Blog – originally founded in 2015 and now serving hundreds of bloggers with various technical services, Raj has been working with WordPress since 2012 (with his first venture Ética Studio). His primary focus is spearheading RunCloud along with his three partners based in Malaysia – where they are focused on helping website owners, developers, agencies, and hosting providers take their cloud infrastructure and experience to the next level. 

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  • Renjini Narendranath

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    Hi I am Renjini, I am a content marketer, web designer and linguist. I am mom to an awesome boy (13 years old, who is also a wannabe speaker this time). I am a WordCamp2018 Kerala Speaker, sponsor and an ardent advocate of WordPress, the ultimate open-source content management system. I earn a living by combining, webdesign+Content+SEO as the major source of income for my freelance agency. I am wanna teach mompreneurs like myself how to earn by working freelance and earn a decent income from the comfort of home.\Sessions

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  • Robin Chalia

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    10+ years of agile and experienced programming with a demonstrated and diverse history of working in the software engineering and services industry.

    Skilled in NodeJS ecosystem, Express, Advanced PHP, WordPress, Laravel, Magento, Front-end technologies, UI-UX databases, Grafana, Tableau, Git etc.

    Strong background of architecture-solution design and exposed to different phases of the software development life-cycle.

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  • Rohit Motwani

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    I am Rohit Motwani, an open-source enthusiast from Kanpur, India. I have a passion for automation and low-code technologies and enjoy contributing to projects such as WordPress. Currently, I work as an Integrations & Community Support Engineer at IFTTT.Session

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  • Saurabh

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    Saurabh is the Director of Training & Performance at LevelUp Support. In various roles and capacities, he has been involved in WordPress education and elearning with WordPress throughout his career.Session

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  • Stifan Hiwale

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    My self Stifan Hiwale – currently working with Hostinger International as Country Manager. I hold 8+ years of experience in Webhosting and Domain Industry and worked along with different Web Hosting companies and Domain Registrar. I have my hands on Web Hosting technical as well as sales and operational side.Session

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  • Vachan Kudmule

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    Vachan’s motto is “everything can and must be designed”. He’s passionate about FOSS (Free Open Source Software) and helping start-ups grow their business. Self-learning and exploring new ideas keep him motivated and he has pioneered many industry-first concepts in alternative access mediums. He’s presently experimenting with Native Mobile App Development.

    Teams involved with:
    WordPress Polygot PTE – Hindi; WooCommerce
    WordCamp Asia 2023 Organising Team
    WordCamp India 2020 Organising Team
    WordCamp Mumbai multple Organising TeamSession

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  • Vinod Chacko

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    Vinod is a Jack of all trades and master of many. He has worn multiple hats of employee, freelancer, founder and co-founder and senior executive.

    Vinod is presently working as the Director of Business Development – India, at Vultr Cloud.

    He is the founder of FlexiCloud Internet, and advisor & investor at OureanSoul Private limited which is a marktech agency. Vinod has worked with clients across the world providing them technical consulting and implementation assistance on cloud onboarding and server management.

    He is associated with many tech forums and communities and an active contributor to the open source community!

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  • Vishnu Gopal

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    Vishnu is an engineer with strong product & user-experience skills, with experience in product development, web development, and engineering management. He was part of the initial team that built SlideShare Inc., which then went on to be acquired by LinkedIn. He has led technology teams at two companies and has worked in the product engineering space for over ten years.

    Currently, he works as a Senior Engineering Manager at Automattic.Sessio

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