Abhishek Rijal
Team: Support
Contributor Day Team Lead Type: National
Contributor Day Team Lead Bio:
Abhishek Rijal is a Sr. WordPress developer, currently working as a Team Lead at Nirmal Web Studio. His expertise and experience include WordPress themes and plugin development along with Web applications development in PHP and Laravel framework. He is also an instructor for WordPress development at Halftone Designs.
A frequent speaker and contributor to WordCamps and regular WordPress meet-ups in Nepal, Abhishek believes in giving back to the community.
While not sipping coffee and writing code, he loves to travel around and explore new things. Additionally, he engages himself in different social service projects in Nepal as a member of Lions Club International.
Biplav Subedi
Team: Theme Review
Contributor Day Team Lead Type: National
Contributor Day Team Lead Bio:
Biplav Subedi is the founder of WP Drizzle and has been working on WordPress for quite a while now. He is also a Theme Moderator on WP Theme Review team and loves to review themes as it was his first step to getting involved in the community. Now, Biplav looks to grow on Gutenberg and React and start developing future-proof products.
Biplav started getting involved on WordCamp from 2016 and fell in love with it ever since. He has since then attended every WordCamp held all around the country. He has tried to support the community event with everything he can and now he would like to take a step further and be on the organizing committee of WCKTM2019.
Other than that Biplav is an outgoing person, who loves to do anything and everything. He is your go-to friend to do anything exciting together from touring the country to watching movies, playing football, e-sports anything you name, he’s up for it. He also occasionally posts his Cover songs on Soundcloud, go give it a listen.
Regan Khadgi
Team: Support
Contributor Day Team Lead Type: National
Contributor Day Team Lead Bio:
A Senior Lead WordPress Plugin Developer at AccessPress Themes, Regan Khadgi is a programmer by choice and passion.
Today, he has had almost a decade of experience working with WordPress, and has developed more than 20 plugins. He also leads, manages, and guides a team of 6 programmers. A team that has developed over 100 plugins and has achieved the title of “Elite Author” in Envato in a surprisingly short time.
Also, over the years, Regan has been committed to not only learning from WordPress, but for giving back to the community too. He shared his programming knowledge as a speaker in WordCamp Nepal 2015, and in WordCamp Kathmandu 2016. In the year 2017, he contributed as a volunteer in WordCamp Kathmandu. Again in the year 2018, he spoke at WordCamp Biratnagar. And this year of course, he has been working as a speaker wrangler in WordCamp Kathmandu.
For someone who has worked so long in the field, Regan still goes to work with the same energy he had 8 years ago while he had just started. And when at times he is away from the computer, you can see him singing with a guitar in his hands or lifting weights at the gym.
Sandilya Kafle
Team: Theme Review
Contributor Day Team Lead Type: National
Contributor Day Team Lead Bio:
Mr. Kafle is the Co-Founder and theme review team lead at one of the fast growing WordPress themes marketplace – Template Sell based in Nepal.
In addition, he works for WPEntire and leads theme review team. Besides this, he volunteers as a team lead in the WordPress Theme Review team. He has contributed to the WordPress community as WordCamp speaker, organizer, volunteer, documentation, core contributors, translation team, theme/plugins developer. Furthermore, he is active in WordCamp Nepal and WordCamp Kathmandu since 2014 as a volunteer, sponsor or as a speaker.
He loves spending time with friends, families, reading blogs, traveling and listening to music.
Sudeep Balchhaudi
Team: Polyglots
Contributor Day Team Lead Type: National
Contributor Day Team Lead Bio:
Sudeep Balchhaudi is a WordPress developer. Using and building WordPress products such as Themes and Plugins since past 5 years. He has been contributing on WordPress as Translation Editor on Plygots Team, Theme Reviewer in Theme Review Team on dot Org. Here is his profile
Besides his professional work, he loves to watch Real Madrid play and often go on a short trip and listen to some good music.
You can follow him on social media, just search meissudeep.
Yoav Farhi
Team: Polyglots
Contributor Day Team Lead Type: International
Contributor Day Team Lead Bio:
Yoav Farhi is an Iñtërnâtiônàlizætiønër at Automattic, who works on everything related i18n (that’s internationalization) and l10n (localization) and of course, translation. A core contributor to WordPress for 10 years now, Yoav works hard to make the web a better place.
Learn how translation works in WordPress, and get real hands-on experience in translating a WordPress theme or a plugin – both from the WordPress.org repository and from third-party sources. Additionally, the workshop will introduce the community aspect of translation in WordPress – a great starting point to get involved.