Hari is an Open Source Program Manager at Automattic, and a full-time sponsored WordPress Contributor. A Community Program Manager on the Make/WordPress Community Team, Hari manages Five for the Future: The program promoting WordPress community’s contribution to the platform’s growth.

Hari also co-leads the WordPress Contributor Working Group, which has successfully run two editions of the projectwide contributor mentorship program. WordPress is one of the biggest passions in Hari’s life, and he has been tinkering with it since 2007. Hari has had a rather diverse career with significant experience in the domains of Retail Banking, Print & Web Journalism, Web Development, Entrepreneurship, Event Management, Professional Blogging, and Education.

Outside of work, he enjoys writing (blogging) as a hobby, and is also a compulsive bibliophile. He lives in the beautiful coastal city of Kochi, in Kerala, with his wife and their three cats.