Prathamesh Palve
Topic: Challenges of Working Remotely
Prathamesh Palve works as a Support Ninja with WPMU DEV. He has been working on WordPress from 2009 since he started making websites. Before this, he has worked with a few companies around India & also ran a small web development firm in Mumbai. He loves open-source culture and also contributes by doing translations in Marathi and Hindi for many themes and plugins and is also a WPTV contributor.
Mizanur Rahaman Mizan
Topic: Social Media Automation for Free!
I am a Computer Science and Engineering post-grad. I have been working with PHP based application development since 2007. I have started working with WordPress since 2012 and since I have fallen in love with it.
Being a former lecturer at the University of Information Technology and Sciences (UITS) here at Bangladesh, I love to share my knowledge. I have been a speaker at various local events and conferences.
I am also an official WordPress Meetup Organizer for the city of Chittagong, Bangladesh. I am working and contributing towards making WordPress more popular in my city.
Here is the link to the meetup.com group: https://www.meetup.com/Chattagam-WordPress-Meetup/
I am always open to new opportunities to share and gain knowledge.
Code is poetry and I am constantly trying to be a great poet.
Abul Khayer
Topic: Speed Up WordPress
Abul Khayer is working as a WordPress developer for several web development agencies for the past five years. He is the CTO of Search English and proprietor of his own web development agency Biggestech. He’s specialized in WordPress Security and WooCommerce. He’s one of the organizers of Dhaka WordPress Meetup and a deputy of the global community team.
Chetan Prajapati
Topic: My Experience of Giving Back to WordPress
I am WordPress Lover! I am a Freelancer, WordPress Developer. I started my career with PHP, then learned and explored WordPress. For the the past five years, I have been a WordPress Developer, developing websites and customizing themes and plugins. I also assist in designing, developing and testing websites too! I have been regularly contributing in WordPress since 4.9 version. I have contributed in many minor releases and major releases including 4.9, 5.0, 5.1, and 5.2. I am one of the Noteworthy Contributor in WordPress 5.1 and 5.2. Apart from that I am also contributing in Training, WordPressTV, Accessibility etc. I am always happy to meet new people in the WordPress community and see how I can help them achieve their goals. When I am not on Skype and WordPress, I love to watch cricket, photography, travel, bike riding and attend WordCamps!
Carl Alberto
Topic: WP Plugin Development Basics
A Senior Customer Success Engineer in Pantheon Systems where he assists site launches, optimizations, security and troubleshooting complex WordPress builds on the platform. He is also a co-organizer in the WordPress User’s Group Philippines and part of the Global WP Community team, where he helps the community grow in the PH though meetups and collaboration with other local tech groups.
Being a tech fanatic, he proudly based the name of his three daughters from Operating Systems – Unix, RosaLinux and Kali, and ironically her wife’s name is Mac. When outside of work and contributing to WordPress, he can be found road-trippin’ with his family and doing Aerial Photography. More info in his blog https://carlalberto.code.blog/
Rupok Chowdhury Protik
Topic: Don’t Put your WordPress Site at Risk
Rupok started his career as LAMP Stack Web Application Developer, currently working at WPMU DEV as Support Superhero for more than 3 years. Rupok is a WordPress evangelist, UI/UX specialist, an Open-Source fanatic and an Organizer of the WordPress Meetup Dhaka Chapter and WordCamp Dhaka. He is working with WordPress for the last 6 years and is very active in the local WordPress community. He loves to travel a lot and take lifestyle pictures everywhere. In his idle time, he writes stories at his personal blog: https://www.rupokify.com/
Nizam Uddin
Topic: Making multi million dollar from WordPress plugin without paid marketing
Nizam is the Co-Founder and CEO of weDevs, one of the renowned WordPress product companies in the world. He always contributes to the community and has already successfully organized many local meetups, translation days and other WordPress programs. Nizam is a WordPress business specialist and has what it takes to market any WordPress product. His interest is in – Entrepreneurship, Growth Hacking, Inbound and Outbound Marketing, Business Development etc. From the early stage of his career, he has been looking for ways to put a profound impact on the lives on millions of people reduced to penury in Bangladesh and around the world and that will induce the posterity to become promising entrepreneurs to lead Bangladesh to a superpower. He has keen interest in Health Care sector and is the co-founder and former CEO of renowned Healthcare Startup Rx71 and co-founder and Managing Director of Enzaime Health. Apart from all these, he is the co-founder of Export Marketing Company Tedfo Bangladesh Limited.
Hasin Hayder
Topic: Using WordPress as an Application Development Framework
WordPress enthusiast since 2005. Author of “WordPress 2.0 Complete”. Speaker and Organizer of countless WordPress events here in Bangladesh. Hasin is teaching WordPress, PHP & JavaScript to countless people from LearnWithHasinHayder. He is the co-founder of HappyMonster, the team behind the beautiful HappyAddons plugin for Elementor.
Lincoln Islam
Topic: The Future of Web Development Career
Lincoln Islam Is the Founder & Visionary of CodeRex. A WordPress Agency based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He is an active Dhaka WordPress meetup organizer & co-organizer of WordCamp Dhaka 2019 and WordCamp Asia 2020.
Lincoln has traveled and contributed to many WordCamps in Asia & Europe by volunteering & speaking.
From small to a bigger agency, Lincoln and his team has worked with clients from all over the world and made their life easy, delivering top-notch services.
Lincoln has over seven years of experience with Open source projects and contributing them actively.
While he is making a living using open source to create and sell products, Lincoln has a dream to make a significant impact on the employment rate of his Country.
Ganga Kafle
Topic: Think Before you submit Themes on WordPress.Org
Ganga Kafle has more than 6 years of experience in WordPress; Community, contributions, and development – basically focused on WordPress themes and plugins. He had contributed as the lead organizer for WordCamp Biratnagar 2018. He has been volunteering as a theme review lead in the WordPress Theme Review team. Moreover, he has contributed to the WordPress community as WordCamp speaker, lead organizer, volunteer, documentation, core, translation, theme/plugins development. Furthermore, he is active in the WordPress community in Nepal since 2014 as a volunteer, sponsor or as a speaker.
François Forest
Topic: Build Better Products and Get More Customers by Creating a Feedback Culture
François is the CEO of Feedier an application that helps businesses to collect better Feedback and innovate through their customer relationship. He has 6 years of experience in building WordPress products that scale has a lead developer and head of support, whether it’s plugins or themes with over 15k installs. He has been working in Canada as a software engineer and is now working in France to grow Feedier. He loves rock climbing, scuba diving and running when he’s not in front of his computer.
Sanjay Willie
Topic: 10 First Steps To Secure Your WP Assets
Sanjay has over 15 years of experience in cybersecurity and currently runs multiple firms including one of the leading cyber army purple team of consultants in Malaysia, consulting for vast organizations ranging from the army, financial institutions and corporations. Sanjay believes that cybersecurity education is required by people from all aspects of life as it becomes a necessity moving into the fourth industry where everything will be connected.
Tareq Hasan
Topic: Future Prospects in WordPress: Business & Beyond!
Tareq Hasan is the Founder and CTO of weDevs – a WordPress product company. He is a full-stack developer, diehard coder, loves PHP and WordPress. He is been developing web applications for 9+ years, now focusing mainly on WordPress development and is a WordPress core contributor and WordPress Bengali maintainer. He is very much involved with Bangladeshi WordPress community and actively organizes meetups and community engagements.
Parvez Akther
Topic: Future Prospects in WordPress: Business & Beyond!
Parvez Akther is co-founder and CEO of a boutique WordPress shop called Themesgrove. He also founded and leading ThemeXpert – pioneer Joomla template shop. He is a veteran web developer working in this industry more than 14 years. He is very much active in open source community and volunteer wheres possible.
Purnendu Dash
Topic: Future Prospects in WordPress: Business & Beyond!
Purnendu is an open source developer by passion. This passion gave him the high to became the founder of WC Marketplace amongst his other ideas. He cares for his customer the most, because most of his ideas have come after having some intense dialogues with them. And he believes in going beyond the technology and providing his customers a practical solution for his or her business.
Purnendu is an open source developer by passion. This passion gave him the high to became the founder of WC Marketplace amongst his other ideas. He cares for his customer the most, because most of his ideas have come after having some intense dialogues with them. And he believes in going beyond the technology and providing his customers a practical solution for his or her business.
He started working with WordPress in 2008. The journey started with a theme development, then moved on to other areas like hooks & filters. Now WordPress made him an enthusiast entrepreneur leading an entire entourage of ‘Digital Age’ that services in anything WordPress, Moodle and Internet Marketing.
Though he has a Master’s degree in Computer Applications, he still considers himself a student who explores the media and the web to feed himself with anything geeky, ‘economicky’ and ‘businessy’. He might not sound that rabid here to say that – “Feel free to get in touch and we might end up having a cup of Indian tea or travel to Ladakh”. You may reach him on Twitter at @dashpurnendu / on slack @purnendu.
Abu Huraira Bin Aman
Topic: Headless WordPress and the future is here!
Abu Huraira Bin Aman is the co-founder of ThemesGrove and WpSpark. He is also an Open Source contributor and active Joomla user group Dhaka member. He started his career in 2008 as a web developer and worked on several local and international company. Now acting as a CTO of ThemesGrove.
His recent journey was related to headless WordPress using Gatsby, React and GraphQL. He is also a co-developer of Quix Joomla page builder.
Saif Hassan
Topic: Why Human Centric Design Is Important for WordPress & Its Community
Saif is currently working as a Product Manager at weDevs. He’s a passionate and 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.
Anam Ahmed
Topic: WordPress At Scale
Working in the industry for more that 14 years, Loves the web everything that’s making the web rich and beautiful. Been working with WordPress since version 1. Made and scaled many web application with it.
Tashfia Nabila Fareed
Topic: WordPress, SEO & Content Marketing- Know how to create an impression!
Tashfia is a technical writer for a WordPress-based company- Themeum. She is a certified content marketer and a Telecommunications engineer. Writing high impact content, ranking great across search engines and learning all about WordPress is her passion.
M Asif Rahman
Topic: Future Prospects in WordPress: Business & Beyond!
I am a long time WordPress Enthusiast, Serial Entrepreneur and Angel Investor. I am working closely with WordPress since 2004. I am the Founder CEO of ARCom, a media company that does everything in WordPress, helps Enterprise-Level WordPress clients, and serving several Fortune-500 Clients. Not just because my company creates and sale WordPress product, I am a very well spoken, about business in WordPress. I am also Founder of WPDeveloper, an Incubator & Marketplace for WordPress Products. I do read a lot and I write too, I foundered The Tech Journal, The Dhaka Times etc and serving information to millions. I invest and love to help startups and proudly involved with Trance App, Leanplum, FutureStartUp, Geeky Social, Facebook, and several other companies from their early stage. I was CEO of a large WordPress product company weDevs. Among many other things I was an Early Google Glass Explorer, and I appeared in various (100+) WordCamps around the world and spoken at over 25 WordCamps. And most importantly I am a blessed Dad of two super cute little princesses, and husband of a lovely wife! Though I lived few years in Orlando, Florida, but I am originally from Bangladesh.
Interestingly I just retired in 2018, at my 34th birthday, which I announced via a 10,000-word semi-autobiography in HeroPress, which you could read (pain) here – https://asif.im/hp