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Afshana Diya
Afshana Diya is Digital Strategist & CMO of WPDeveloper where she is helping the company to accelerate growth and maximize conversion rates.
Prior to her current position, she has worked with a couple of WordPress brands to get results by changing the way they use their digital channels.
Along with the digital world, she lives to explore the beauty of nature and travel around somewhere you have loved or probably a very remote place where you have never been to.
Get connected with her on LinkedIn or follow her on Twitter.
Aldrich Christopher
Aldrich Christopher is a Webmaster Outreach Strategist at Google Asia Pacific, helping webmasters across the region to create better content and websites. As the Webmaster Outreach Lead for Indonesia, Aldrich promotes best practices and high quality web ecosystem by equipping content creators and webmasters with relevant resources and dependable support. Prior to this, Aldrich was a Community Manager for an Indonesian crowdsourcing platform, inspiring creative personnel to create impactful and meaningful content.
Carl Alberto
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.
Edmund Chan
Eric Tracz
I’m a Digital Nomad currently living in Kuala Lumpur. Co-Founder and CEO of PeepSo.com and TwistPress.com. I began my journey with Open Source about a decade ago and never regretted it. I care about creating beautiful and useful solutions for WordPress. What’s more important, solutions which are also fully supported by the very people creating them.
After years of hard work, I’m finally in a place where I can have myself and the company give back to the WordPress community by sponsoring WordCamps and sharing my knowledge and experience.
Francesca Marano
Francesca is the WordPress Community Manager at SiteGround, web hosting company. She is part of the WordPress community team, organizing meetups and WordCamps in Torino and taking part in many other WordPress events worldwide.
Francesca is a passionate speaker and you can find her in Italy and around the world talking about WordPress, community, open-source, women in tech, and small businesses.
Haley Brown
Haley is the straight-shooting head honcho of Brand Shack. A guru in all things design and project management on a mission to create the perfect work-life balance
As a first time mum she has managed to take 6 months leave whilst her business continued to manage clients needs and bring in a consistent income.
When she’s not busy designing or working with clients, she loves nothing more than travelling the globe on her quest to find the perfect pina colada.
Hazrul Azhar Jamari
I’m a family man, entrepreneur, software engineer, and foodie, and have been building startups all my life. I have gone through a complete cycle of E-Commerce from training, building online and mobile e-store, building payment gateways and building a fulflllment and distribution system throughout my career.
Hedren Sum
Hedren Sum is digital humanities project manager at Institute of Science and Technology for Humanity (NISTH), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He had developed and led several local and international digital scholarship projects using WordPress with particular expertise in interface design, knowledge aggregation, data organisation, archiving, and visualisation for analysis, access and discovery.
Henry Hoe
Henry has 5 years of eCommerce experience and runs a 7 figure local marketing agency Decisive Marketer with a team of 20 people.
Henry has sold on multiple eCommerce platforms such as Amazon, eBay, Qoo10, Lazada, Carousell, Shopee
Ian Labao
IT Geek, Enthusiast and Developer. An experienced and ambitious software consultant/engineer looking for challenging roles in the IT industry with expertise in working with the latest technologies in diverse types of projects.
Ivan So
Ivan has 15 years of experience of SEO and WordPress and has built over 350 WordPress sites for clients. He’s the co-organiser of Hong Kong WordPress meetup and the lead organiser of Hong Kong WordCamp 2019.
Ivan Yordanov
Ivan Yordanov is providing infrastructure and application support to the SiteGround enterprise clients. He has helped with the launch and has been involved in the maintenance of many complex multi-server infrastructures for big WordPress projects. Ansible automation helps Ivan to manage both hosting infrastructures and multiple WordPress applications quickly and efficiently, allowing him to optimize the workflow and the time management of his day-to-day tasks.
Jamie Madden
Jamie is the lead developer and founder of the WC Vendors Marketplace plugin and director of our parent company Red Panda Ventures. He is the co-organiser of Saigon WordPress Meetup in Vietnam. Jamie has been a WordPress user and developer since the early days of B2 Evolution. He has utilised WordPress for all levels of solutions including basic websites, blogs, e-commerce, auctions sites, marketplaces, help desk systems and more.
Jamie has extensive experience developing on the WordPress platform. He has been a systems administrator, support specialist and developer working with all levels of online technologies with over 20 years of experience. Jamie has founded and run several companies in the last 15 years. Outside of the IT world, Jamie spends his time scuba diving and capturing underwater stock footage. If he’s not under the water, he’s tending to his new garden or planning his next trip to the mountains to go snowboarding.
Lawrence Hughes
Lawrence is Co-Founder and Chief Scientist at Sixscape Communications and has a total of 45+ years in IT, in computer graphics, cybersecurity, messaging and networking.
Leonardo Losoviz
Leonardo Losoviz is an independent open source developer, creator of a framework for building modular websites called [PoP]. The only non-musician in his family, this doesn’t bother him, because coding is also making art. He lives in a loop: he dreams of code and, when he wakes up, he codes his dreams. He is based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
M. Asif Rahman
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.
Marikit Valmadrid
Kit is the Community Manager of the Philippine Web Designers Organization and an active core member of the WordPress User Group Philippines. She loves to contribute to the Tech Community.
Matt Knighton
I am an Entrepreneur, Business Consultant, Speaker, Software Developer, Business Analyst and Founder of multiple IT companies. Secondly, I have over 20 years experience in software development. And lastly, I have worked as a business analyst for some of the world’s largest banks and communications organisations. I specialise in maximising the value that businesses can get from their IT. I’m also really interested in making great websites, SEO, virtual reality, video production and online education.
Mike Schroder
Mike Schroder is a cross-cultural kid, coffee enthusiast, and supporter of Open Source. As a full-time contributor sponsored by GoDaddy, he’s a WordPress committer and previous release lead. He is one of the maintainers of media and authors of `WP_Image_Editor`, the current base infrastructure for handling images in WordPress.
Nicky Lim
I believe some of the best code ever written is in the Open Source community and it has become a key source of software that runs our digital world today. As such, it is valuable to understand the ecosystem to benefit our own projects and to enable us to contribute back. My Open Source journey started at a college hackathon and I have contributed since then to projects such as WordPress and Hyperledger – a cross-industry blockchain technology hosted by the Linux Foundation. I currently hold a BSc in Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana—Champaign (UIUC) and MEng in Computer Science from Cornell University.
Puneet Sahalot
Puneet is the CEO of IdeaBox, working with a team of brilliant tech professionals and creative minds. He is on a mission to help designers, developers, and entrepreneurs to strengthen their online presence with top-notch quality WordPress solutions. With his 8+ years of experience in the world of WordPress, Puneet endeavours to eliminate all the hurdles that pose a challenge in empowering the digital existence of an entity.
Ricky Blacker
Ricky is a self taught web professional who found and fell in love with WordPress, and the community behind it while looking for a CMS platform to build websites for clients.
He originally started his own web design business after being made redundant from a factory job in 2013, but now works for WP Engine as a Pre Sales Engineer, providing a Digital Experience Platform for WordPress user around the world.
He is a Co-Organizer for the Sunshine Coast & Brisbane WordPress Meetup Groups, as well as the Brisbane Web Design Meetup group, and was one of the amazing team who put together the Sunshine Coast WordCamp in 2016 and WordCamp Brisbane in 2017/2018, and has spoken at WordCamps in Australia and New Zealand.
Ricky is very passionate about building the WordPress community and helping others to learn how to use WordPress and what it can do.
Sam Suresh
Sam Suresh is the founder of MU DOT MY PLT, a tech development & training company based in Kuala Lumpur. He contributes to open source projects in his free time. Sam contributes to WordPress as a Global Community Team member. He also organizes WordCamps and Meetups.
Seiji Akatsuka
Seiji Akatsuka is a member of WordCamp Tokyo 2019, an organizer of AWS APAC User Community and AWS Samurai 2016. He is very interested in developing the tech community in APAC Area.
Shaan Nicol
Born in New Zealand, made in Singapore. With a long history in web design and development, Shaan has been building websites in various forms for over 20 years. As the founder of ChillyBin WordPress Web Design, Shaan is fanatical about making sure everything runs smoothly, and all his clients achieve all their business and target audience needs and go home happy.
Shramee Srivastav
I’m Shramee, I started coding at the age of seven. I love to travel and code. I also like playing football among other things. Popular plugins I have developed include: Caxton, Pootle Pagebuilder, WooBuilder, Pootle Slider, Storefront Pro, Storefront Blocks (Featured in WCUS 2018), Eighteen tags Pro
Stephanie Campanella
With a love for fine art and a knack for computers Graphic Design seemed the right ‘fit’ for me. As I moved out of college and started ‘working for the man’ I was retrenched and left stranded. I quickly realised I had to take action and forge my own destiny.
I’ve built 2 incredible brands and built up a talented team to help deliver to our clients.
It kills me to see other creatives not thriving in their business. Taking any work they can get and not charging what they’re truly worth.
I’m on a mission to change this.
My vision is that every creative is THRIVING in their business. Has a steady amount of recurring revenue in place and has a team in place they can rely on.
When I’m not mentoring creatives so they can THRIVE in their business and create the FREEDOM they SO deserve I’m eating my way through every Mexican restaurant in Sydney whilst wearing my Lorna Jane activewear.