Speakers

  • Adam Silverstein

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    Adam is a WordPress core committer and image component maintainer, where he works to fix bugs and improve modern web capabilities. As a Developer Relations Engineer in the content ecosystem team at Google, he works to invigorate the open web by empowering and educating developers.

  • Aditya Shah

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    Aditya manages the Hosting Support team at WPMUDEV, he is a WordPress evangelist, and tech enthusiast. He has presented at several tech conferences including WC Kochi, organized TEDx, Microsoft Global Azure Bootcamp, etc. He has also been an active contributor to the community for years where he has organized numerous WordPress meetups in Bhopal, India …

  • Ajit Bohra

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    People call Ajit a tech geek, fitness enthusiast, super randonneur. Ajit calls himself a humble guy tapping his keyboard, helping his clients in India & Abroad. With an experience of over 12 years in WordPress, where Ajit traversed from basic WordPress theme setups to now implementing complex applications on top of WordPress, he runs a …

  • Alain Schlesser

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    Alain is a freelance software engineer, WordPress consultant and Google Developers Expert in Web Technologies living in Germany. He is the maintainer of WP-CLI, the command-line interface for WordPress and works on WordPress Core itself as a contributor and component maintainer. He offers higher-level consulting, code reviews and software design coaching, enabling companies to deal …

  • Alberto Medina

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    Alberto is a Computer Scientist by training. Born in Venezuela. He is living in the U.S. for a very long time. Alberto has worked in academic environments, research labs, startups, medium companies (~300M users), and large companies (~1B+ users). Currently, he is part of the Creator Relations team at Google, where his focus on Ecosystem …

  • Allie Nimmons

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    Allie is a 30-year-old, Austin-based, self-taught WordPress evangelist. In 2014, after dropping out of theater school, she started learning to code. She got her first internship in 2015, where she was introduced to WordPress. From 2016 to 2019, she built websites and provided WordPress support independently as Pixel Glow Web Design. She has spent time …

  • Amir Arabnezhad

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    I'm Amir and I have been a WordPress developer for several years. I worked remotely for most of career, but lately I've worked as a WordPress developer at uwpgroup.co.uk and right now, I am a Tier 3 WordPress Technical Support Engineer at Barn2.com. I know how to code with PHP and I love JS and …

  • Amit Bajracharya

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    Amit is a UI/UX & Website Designer and WordPress Developer with 12 years of experience. He has a knack for making things look good and work well. He loves working on projects that make an impact, whether it’s helping a business grow or making someone’s life easier.

  • Angela Jin

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    Angela Jin is the Head of Programs and Contributor Experience at Automattic. She is a dedicated volunteer with a passion for building strong, inclusive communities. In her spare time, Angela is a crisis counselor for Crisis Text Line, and a board member of Big Orange Heart. Originally from Washington, USA, Angela currently lives in Spain, …

  • Benjamin Evans

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    I'm a full-time contributor, sponsored by Automattic, contributing as a Faculty member on the Training Team. I've been using WordPress for 8 years, and spent almost 3 of those years as a WordPress customer support agent. I am fluent in both English and Japanese, and am leading efforts in the Training Team to increase localized …

  • Bhavesh Radadiya

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    Bhavesh Radadiya created his first commercial theme in 2008. He is the founder of a WordPress theme company known as templatic. After exiting the business, he now runs a design solutions agency called DzineInteract.com, where his mission is to provide Result focused design solutions For design-challenged founders, agencies, and SaaS companies.

  • Birgit Pauli-Haack

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    Birgit Pauli-Haack is the publisher of Gutenberg Times, a site with news around WordPress block editor and beyond. She hosts regular Gutenberg Live Q & As on YouTube and hosts the podcast Gutenberg Changelog. Birgit has been contributing to the WordPress open-source project since 2014 and contributes now full-time, sponsored by Automattic

  • Carl Alberto

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    A WordPress Solutions Architect at Pantheon Systems where he assists site launches, optimizations, complex configurations, security, and troubleshooting complex WordPress builds on the platform. He is also a co-organizer in the WordPress Users Group Philippines and part of the Global WP Community team, where he helps the community grow in the PH through meetups and …

  • Carl Alexander

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    Carl Alexander is a PHP developer from Montréal, Canada. He's the solo founder of Ymir, a serverless DevOps platform for WordPress. He also has a website where he publishes articles regularly. It's his way to help the WordPress community with these hard-to-learn topics. It's also why he's excited to speak at WordCamp Asia. It's another …

  • Carole Olinger

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    Carole joined the WordPress community in 2016 – during a four-year sabbatical to take care of her mental health – and it was life-changing! Carole quit her former job as a government administrator, left her home country Luxembourg, and threw herself into WordCamp volunteering, organizing, and speaking while traveling the world. Furthermore, she quickly became …

  • Chakkrisn Talawat

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    Web Designer & Developer, who has used WordPress since 2005, founded digital agencies in Bangkok, worked remotely from the mountains of Pai, and is now running the SeedWebs.com project.

  • Chris David Miles

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    Chris is a Product Manager for Bluehost in Salt Lake City, Utah. He has done freelance web design and front-end development for over a decade. He discovered WordPress in 2011 and has used it to build sites for clients and non-profits ever since.

  • Dario Jazbec Hrvatin

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    I am a Content Manager for OnTheGoSystems, the company behind WPML and Toolset plugins. Born in Croatia and now living in Slovenia with my wife, daughter, and our chihuahua dog. Also a seasoned musician and singer-songwriter. In the past, I've worked as a web developer and spent some years freelancing, then in a non-governmental sector, …

  • Edmund Chan

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    A Web Engineer who enjoys fiddling with WordPress and React. Currently working at XWP to help build a better web at enterprise scale.

  • Francesca Marano

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    "I support developers who build the open web, and help others use it."I am a second-generation woman in tech and I have been tinkering with computers since the age of 8. I am the Associate Director of Engineering at XWP, where we build a better web at enterprise scale. My focus is on the professional …

  • Hajime Ogushi

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    – Representative director of mgn, Inc. who builds, operates, and consults on WordPress-based websites.- Nickname is めがね.- He started using WordPress in 2008, and has been working almost exclusively with WordPress.

  • Hannah Del Porto

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    Hannah is the COO of an open-source web development firm based in the US. She has worked in web development for 22 years, both on the client management side and on the development side. Hannah has previously spoken at many conferences including WordCamp Bangkok 2019, and several times at DrupalCon in the US and Australia. …

  • Hari Shanker

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    Hari is a Community Wrangler at Automattic, and he contributes to the WordPress Community Team full-time as a Community Deputy. He was one of the Community Team Representatives for 2022, and the current focus of his work is on supporting, cultivating, and growing the Five for the Future program. WordPress is one of the biggest …

  • Hidekazu Ishikawa

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    Representative director and front-end engineer of Vektor, Inc., a Japanese WordPress theme and plugin development company. He released a responsive theme for business sites in 2012, and since then has continued to improve the theme and develop plugins. In 2022, we released the block theme "X-T9".Participates in various contribution activities, speaks at WordCamp, and actively …

  • Isabel Brison

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    Isabel is a front end engineer working at Automattic and has been a maintainer and full time sponsored contributor to WordPress for the past 3 years. When not coding, reviewing or otherwise wrangling software, she enjoys getting out in the sun, growing herbs and veggies, and working on art projects.

  • Jonathan Desrosiers

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    Jonathan has been using WordPress since 2007 to build sites of all sizes, covering the entire spectrum of local businesses to enterprises and large universities. He has been a contributor to WordPress Core since 2013, and a WordPress Core committer since 2018. He currently works as a Senior Software Engineer at Bluehost, where he is …

  • Jonathan Wold

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    I love WordPress and I'm focused on helping the WordPress ecosystem grow. My intention with the topics I speak on is to provide anchors and reference points to support the WordPress ecosystem, especially extenders. I've had the privilege of being full-time in the WordPress ecosystem for 17+ years, including 18 months at Automattic, leading community …

  • K. Adam White

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    K. Adam White started using WordPress in 2007, and stumbled upon his first WordCamp in 2011. He was heavily involved in the REST API project, and after the API was merged into WordPress core KAdam led the development of the REST API component until 2020. He is a WordPress core committer and a Principal Engineer …

  • Karim Marucchi

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    Karim Marucchi Was born in Rome and holds a Master of Architecture from La Sapienza University. Today as CEO of Crowd Favorite, a Digital Strategy and Engineering firm, he and his team work with Fortune 500 companies on planning and building tomorrow's Digital Transformations. His career has included founding multiple startups, working as an executive …

  • Kel Santiago-Pilarski

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    Kel Santiago-Pilarski was a nurse and tattoo artist, who's currently a WordPress.com Happiness Engineer at Automattic. She met her husband in a WordCamp! 🙂

  • Kin Ko

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    Writer. Instructor on blockchain. Blogging on ckxpress.com powered with WordPress for 15+ years. Published "The Sociology of Blockchain: Reimagining Money, Media and Democracy" and other 2 books. Member of Creative Commons and publish all works with open license. Fluent in English, Cantonese and Mandarin.

  • Laura Byrne

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    Laura started off her career with educational non-profits, where marketing was part of everyone’s job description. After dabbling in in Microsoft FrontPage for a few years, Laura found WordPress in 2006 when she and a friend decided to build a website with a blog and forum for fans to discuss a then little-known book called …

  • Le-an Lai Lacaba

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    Le-an Lai Lacaba is the CEO and Co-Founder of 2xYou, winner of the Stevie Award 2021 Employer Of The Year, an outsourcing company that specializes in hiring, managing, and growing remote executive assistants for solopreneurs and small business owners. She has been working from home since she was 15, published her own book at 18, …

  • M Asif Rahman

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    M Asif Rahman is a long-time WordPress Enthusiast, Serial Entrepreneur and Angel Investor. He has been working closely with WordPress since 2004. He is the Founder CEO of ARCom, a media company that does everything in WordPress, helps Enterprise-Level WordPress clients, and serves several Fortune-500 Clients. Not just because his company creates and sells WordPress …

  • Mashhood Rastgar

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    Mashhood leads the engineering team at Sastaticket.pk. He specializes in using the latest web technologies available to develop the best travel platform in the country. He is also an active developer community member, is currently serving as a Google Developer Expert and is speaking at several international conferences during the year.

  • Matt Mullenweg

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  • Matthias Held

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    Matthias is a web professional based in Germany with a focus on cybersecurity, product development, and other technology concepts. He works for Bugcrowd (Security as a Service) as a technical pentest manager. Prior to that, he has been the CTO and Product Manager for Raidboxes (Managed WordPress Hosting). For over 24 years he has created …

  • Michelle Frechette

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    Michelle Frechette is the Director of Community Engagement for StellarWP at Liquid Web. In addition to her work at StellarWP, Michelle is the Podcast Barista at WPCoffeeTalk.com, cofounder of underrepresentedintech.com, creator of wpcareerpages.com, the president of the board for BigOrangeHeart.org, Director of Community Relations and contributor at PostStatus.com, author, business coach, and a frequent organizer …

  • Milana Cap

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    Milana Cap is a WordPress engineer at XWP, WordPress Documentation Team representative, and Documentation Focus lead for WordPress 5.8 and co-lead for WordPress 5.9, 6.0, and 6.1 release cycles. She helped organise some of the largest WordPress conferences, WordCamp Europe 2018 and 2019, with a focus on Contributor Days. Being a single mum in Serbia, …

  • Miriam Schwab

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    Miriam is Head of WordPress Relations at Elementor. Having been an active member and leader of the WordPress industry for over fifteen years, as a blogger, five-time WordCamp organizer, and frequent WordCamp speaker, Miriam founded a leading WordPress development agency in Israel. Subsequently, Miriam co-founded Strattic, which offers a headless and static way of hosting and deploying …

  • Nirav Mehta

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    Nirav is an unusual combination of a geek + entrepreneur + storyteller + mentor. If you have any questions about WordPress, WooCommerce; running or scaling a tech business, he's your goto guy! Over the last two decades he launched India’s first electronic magazine, a 120 people web agency, lots of open source contributions and a …

  • Nuno Morgadinho

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    I'm the Founder and managing director at WidgiLabs, a digital agency that specializes in WordPress websites and ecommerce. Our work portfolio includes national and international brands, such as Forbes, Vodafone and others. I've worked on the launch of the biggest WordPress media installations in Portugal, Observador and ECO, both of which won awards. I've also …

  • Okamoto Hidetaka

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    Hide (ひで pronounced “Hee-Day”) is a Developer Advocate at Stripe, where he works on writing, coding, and teaching how to integrate online payments. He has organized several community conferences including WordCamp Kyoto and JP_Stripes Connect 2019, the first Stripe user conference in Japan. Prior to Stripe, Hide was a lead Software Engineer at DigitalCube, focused …

  • Petya Raykovska

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    Petya is the Director of Agency Operations at Human Made, a global distributed WordPress agency. In 15+ years of experience in the software development industry, Petya’s held roles in product marketing and event management, enterprise media, product development, business operations, project management, and resource management. Petya has volunteered, lead, and enabled global open source communities, …

  • Piccia Neri

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    Piccia Neri is a UX and accessible design lead, consultant and speaker, helping businesses and agencies win on the web by putting users at the centre. She loves educating designers and developers in the best UX, UI and accessibility practices via workshops, courses, and talks, in 3 languages. Piccia is currently UX and UI lead …

  • Prasad Nevase

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    Prasad consider himself lucky to be part of WordPress world where he also got an opportunity to speak at WordCamp Pune and WordCamp India (Online). Prasad has been managing WordPress projects since last ~11 years. His career journey traverses through different roles such as a Developer, Project Manager, Sales Representative, Director of Client Delivery, helping …

  • Rahi Prajapati

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    Rahi hails from Gujarat, India, and is currently working as an Engineering Manager at a WordPress agency, rtCamp. He has been working with WordPress since 2018. He is in love with the Gutenberg project, the FSE (Full Site Editing) initiative, and he contributes towards it over the weekends. Apart from WordPress, he enjoys food, games, …

  • Rahul D Sarker

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    Rahul D Sarker is a Digital Marketing consultant with over 8 years of experience in SEO, Brand communication, Conversion optimization, Sales & Acquisition Funnel, etc. He is a regular contributor to various projects (WPTV, polyglot, Diverse speaker support, Community) and is very active in the WordPress community. He is one of the team refs for …

  • Raushan Jaiswal

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    Raushan Jaiswal is a marketer and entrepreneur. He is co-founder and CEO of Codewing Solutions, the company behind Rara Themes, Blossom Themes and WP Travel Engine.  Raushan wears multiple hats at Codewing Solutions, including marketing and growth of the products. He has 10+ years of experience in marketing with extensive knowledge and experience with SEO, …

  • Sabirah

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    Starting my writing career as an academic writer on Upwork, I developed myself all the way and established my expertise in creating trendy, ever-green, and informative content. In my current position I am also responsible for reviewing blogs, effective SEO for getting a better position on Search Engines, topical mapping, Researching blog topics, reporting for …

  • Saif Hassan

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    Where developers are focused on code, architecture, performance, and engineering, Saif focuses on the big picture of "what are we trying to do" and on the details of the user experience, the feature set, and the way the product will get used. He is currently working as the Lead Product Manager at weDevs, overseeing SaaS …

  • Sekander Badsha

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    I have started with theme development back in 2012 and developed a couple of national daily newspapers online edition. In 2014, I joined weDevs as a happiness engineer and transitioned into a content writer, email marketer, digital marketing expert, partnerships manager, product manager and project manager. I have worked with a couple of international teams …

  • Shilpa Shah

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    Erstwhile co-founder at Hummingbird Web Solutions (managed a portfolio of popular WordPress themes and plugins – CyberChimps, SlideDeck, WPeka and others). Just getting started with my new WordPress blog called WPCubicle.com.

  • Subhasis Chatterjee

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    Subhasis Chatterjee is a Web Journalist, Content Architect, Content Analyst from Kolkata, India with an experience legacy of more than 27 years. He is an Author, Blogger, and a Keynote Speaker. He is a Social Media Influencer too. His core competency lies in the areas of Content Strategising, Personal Branding, Digital Marketing, Social Media Propagation, …

  • Sunita Rai

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    Sunita is a content marketer with more than seven years of experience. She specializes in WordPress SEO content writing, affiliate marketing, and email marketing. After working on popular WordPress blogs like AccessPress Themes, ThemeGrill, WPBeginner, etc., as a full-time writer, she is now more involved in hiring and training beginners, freelance writing, and managing some …

  • Tanvirul Haque

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    Experienced WordPress developer with a demonstrated history of working in the WordPress industry. Tanvirul loves to do everything with WordPress as a web development tool and feel great connecting with people especially if they have the same passion he has for what they do.

  • Tarun Sikder

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    Tarun is a WordPress enthusiast who loves to work within the platform & explore his creativity. He has been working in the WordPress eco-system & space for over 5+ years and worked as the Senior Content Writer & Manager in one of the leading WordPress-based software companies. Being passionate about content marketing, he specializes mainly in …

  • Thijs de Valk

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    I'm the CEO at Yoast. I have a Master’s degree in Pedagogical Sciences, which can be best understood as developmental psychology. As a behavioural scientist, I’m interested in how people interact with our products, services and how they view our brand as a whole.

  • Topher DeRosia

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    Topher lives in Grand Rapids MI with his wife Cate. A web developer for over 25 years, Topher has been working with WordPress for 12 years. A serial contributor, Topher has code in core, plugins in the repository, hundreds of training videos published, and attended more than 80 WordCamps. Topher also manages the HeroPress Network, …

  • Warat Wongmaneekit

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    Web Developer / Chief Product Officer at #WISESIGHT / Geek / Bkk.js / WEB GDE