Organizers

Utsav Singh Rathour is a WordPress enthusiast and a developer by passion. He dived into WordPress back in 2007 and there has been no looking back since. He runs theme and plugin shops along with a service company Code Pixelz Media, where he leads a team of 15+ awesome WordPress enthusiast.

He likes giving back to the already awesome WordPress community and which is why, you will see him running around in the event to make sure the event goes well. But that should not stop you from giving him a “hey” if and when you want to talk to him. He likes talking to people and when it’s WordPress, he is always in.

Surendra, CEO and Co founder of Rigorous Web, has worked as Software Engineer since 2010 and started his own web business in WordPress after getting potential knowledge of web design and development at early 2013. He is self learned and highly motivated Web Programmer, WordPress Developer and IT entrepreneur.

He would like to call himself as a Happiness WordPress Consultant. He empowers most of his client’s architectures with WordPress, helping them to better communicate their values and successes.

He is also Co owner at Rigorous Themes, and KeysThemes. He is also one of top most Certified Programmer at Codeable.

Surendra is one of active organizers at WordCamp Kathmandu 2016 and WordCamp Kathmandu 2017. He took part WordCamp Europe 2016 at Vienna, Austria, WordCamp Ubud 2017 at Bali, Indonesia and recently WordCamp Pokhara 2018, Nepal.

When he is not at work desk, you will find him taking photographs, traveling or watching Movies. You can find him on Twitter.

Shiva Shanker Bhatta is the CEO and Founder at AF themes. He has more than 7 years of experience in WordPress; Community, contributions, and development – basically focused on WordPress themes and plugins. He had contributed previous WordCamps as the organizer (Audio/Video Wrangler) for WordCamp Kathmandu 2016 and WordCamp Kathmandu 2017, Contributor Day Team Lead for Polyglots for WordCamp Kathmandu 2018. In 2017, he used to be the WordPress Kathmandu Meetup Coordinator. Also being an active WordPress community contributor, he is a Theme Reviewer, Theme Author, Plugin Author and General Translation Editor(GTE).

A Senior Lead WordPress Plugin Developer at AccessPress Themes, Regan Khadgi is a programmer by choice and passion. He says, the first fire for coding ignited within him as he debugged codes with fierce energy inside his college classroom. And that fire, soon turned into a flame, making coding his profession.

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.

Anil is an experienced Web developer and believes in quality output. He is a techno lover and loves coding. Stay connected with tech and technology is his passion from childhood. He started his career as a computer instructor, graphic designer, web designer and working as a web developer. He is team lead at Whitehat Agency and co-founder of fnclick.

He is an easy going person and believes in teamwork. When he isn’t glued to the computer screen, he spends time planning road tour and trek to beautiful places of Nepal, hanging out with friends,  and exploring new places.

He believes whenever anyone in the community grows, it helps push forward the entire community. It makes for a better product and experience for everyone. He is actively involved in the WordPress community in Nepal since 2015.

Sweta has been contributing to theme reviews at Catch Themes from last 3 years and loves her work. A graduate of Information Management, Sweta chose technology for a career and hasn’t looked back since.

At Catch Themes, she puts her experience with design, PHP, HTML, and CSS to good use as a theme reviewer.

Sweta is also a key contributor to WordCamp Kathmandu 2017 and 2018, overseeing the financial aspect of the whole event.

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.

Sudhama Thapa is a Front-end developer from Lalitpur. He is currently working at Theme Palace. He is very passionate and dedicated towards his work and loves playing with code. Sudhama is an active member of the WordPress community in Kathmandu as he’s been involved and contributed in different community events since a long time. He has been a part of the volunteering team for the past 3 years in WordCamp Kathmandu events (2016, 2017, and 2018).

Sudhama is an easy going person with a very welcoming personality. His kind and helpful nature is what makes him a go-to person for reliability. When not coding stuff and things, he enjoys traveling and riding motorbikes with his colleagues.

Umesh Balayar is a Sr. WordPress Developer at Whitehat Agency. He’s been contributing to WordPress community for more than 5 years and happy to be involved in this community. He is enthusiast and loves to play with code and bug fixing. He is always open to learn about new technology and share his knowledge. He also loves travelling and adventure.

An undergrad student and a full-time developer. I have been working as WordPress and Laravel Developer for last 3+ years. I started my Professional career when I was in the 3rd semester as a PHP developer in Pattern Fusion Lab and then never stopped since. I am currently working as a Project Manager at Bharyang Ventures.

I have been actively participating in Tech Events, WordCamps and meetups. I love contributing in open source communities and helping new-commers to the Tech Industry.

Shiva is a WordPress theme developer, a student of computer science and information technology. He is currently working as a theme developer. He started WordPress as a passion and build a career in it. He loves open source software and actively serving the community.

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.

Rabina Silwal (silwal) is a WordPress Developer.  It’s been a while she has been working as a WordPress developer and since then she has been contributing to the WordPress Community in various way including support, themes development, polyglots, themes review, etc. Besides that she love’s to listen music, travel and to have yummy foods.

Sapana Bajracharya is a student of Computer Science and Information Technology at Patan Multiple Campus. She is a tech enthusiast who loves exploring about new trends and technology.She has volunteered in wordcamp 2018 and looking forward to contribute more to wordpress community in such events. Moreover, she also has keen interest in web designing and development. Besides being tech-savvy ,she is also very much fond of art and paintings.

Ram Nepal is a WordPress developer. Currently, he is working as a theme developer at Code Themes. He had his first encounter with WordPress in 2015, and since then it has become his hobby, passion, and the center of his profession. He loves contributing to the WordPress community in many ways, including support, themes, plugins and more. Besides that, he loves to travel.

Ujjwal Shakya, founder of the Secret Shop Pvt. Ltd. A tech-freak from times when the tech was not even popular, crashing and rolling his way to learn it. Always a firm believer that technology and its awesomeness would change the world for better or worse. He owns Gaming Gears Nepal as well, which is targeted to gamers, who work blood and sweat on PC’s and consoles to enjoy some time. The Secret Shop, as a pool to earn and learn, is now very active and popular mainly among youth.
Always, a friendly openminded entrepreneur but a gamer and tech-freak by heart.

Suvechhaya Shrestha is a tech enthusiast, currently studying BSc.CIST in Patan Multiple Campus. She is 2018/19 fellow of Women Leaders in Technology. She is a beginner and has a keen interest in WordPress.

I am front end developer/designer at Access keys Pvt. Ltd for more than a year.
I am Interested in arts, design, photography and latest & greatest technologies.
Also interested to learn new skills and keep myself updated on technologies.

Besides tech, I like to travel, sketch, photograph and write some blogs in my spare times.
And I love to have coffee with friends.

I am currently working as a Senior Front End Developer in Access Keys Pvt. Ltd and have been involved in web technology for more than 5 years. An entrepreneur and a tech enthusiast, who loves the art of designing and developing websites and web apps.

Besides web development, I am very much into football (Premier League) and huge fan of Arsenal FC. Love to play football, travel and hang out with friends in free time.

Shishir Shrestha, Founder of SochWare and working as Chief Operation Officer in it. He is pursuing Bachelors in Computer Science and Information Technology at Madan Bhandari Memorial College. He is a tech enthusiast who loves to dive into the new technology and learn about it. He is also working as a Local Committee Vice President at AIESEC Nepal and Vice President at CSIT Association of Nepal. Apart from Study and profession he loves travelling to new places and experience the beauty of the different places , loves listening to soft and old music

WordPress developer by profession, I’ve been working on plugin development and working under WordPress in and out since 3+ years. Besides job, you can find me watching football especially Chelsea, listening to music, watching movies. And i am also internet freak, I always love to explore various new contents in the internet on either subject. You can also find me on twitter @vasanta301.

Bibek Sapkota is a passionate youth and an Information Technology Graduate. As a youth entrepreneur He is leading Cumulus Clouds Nepal Paragliding as Managing Direcotor and a Social Enterprise Urja Lab as Executive DIrector. He is also a former Council Member of United States Embassy Youth Council (USYC) . He is nominated as a Member of Federal Youth Parliament of Nepal by Ministry of Youths and Sports. Moreover, he was in organizing team of WordCamp Pokhara 2018 and a speaker of WordCamp Biratnagar 2018.

Sandeep Poudel, a tech freak whom people find to be an upbeat, self-motivated with good communication skills as he enjoys meeting newpeople and feel very enthusiastic to talk with them even though the environment is new. Besides these, he loves traveling different places every month and be in their environment enjoying, learning new ways. Similarly, for the past one year he has been working as Web developer in Stupa Technology where he flourished his knowledge and experience.

I am an enthusiastic and professional Web/Software developer that has enjoyed leading and being part of successful productive teams. I would like to define myself as an open source pragmatist and a team player. Currently, I’m pursuing my career as a freelancer at Toptal working for clients overseas developing and customizing themes/plugins.

It has been over 4 years now that I started working as a WordPress developer and since then getting involved in WordCamps and WordPress community has given me so much to learn. And always love giving back to the community with any ways possible.

In my free times, I like to travel, listen to music, meet like-minded people, read books and many more.

Kritika Poudel is currently studying BSC.CSIT. Being a student form IT background, she always try to learn new languages & skills. Her main areas of interest are Artificial Intelligence, graphics designing & Community Involvement. She loves watching Horrors and listening to Music.
You can connect with her on Linkedin OR on Twitter.

Nisha Pariyar is a FOSS, Linux and web technology enthusiast. She has experience on web technologies like HTML, CSS, JavaScripts and WordPress as her primary content management system (CMS). She is currently pursuing her Bachelor’s Degree in Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Information Technology (Bsc. CSIT) at Lumbini ICT Campus, Gaindakot, Nawalpur.

Nisha is one of the active volunteers in many FOSS communities, WordPress Bharatpur Community and has presented as speaker in WordPress meetups and workshops. Currently, she is one of the executive members of CSITAN-Chitwan. Besides technology, she enjoys riding her bicycle, reading books, debating with her colleagues and taste/cook new foods.

Omika is Content Analyst at HammerLab Creations. She is working as a content writer and has been looking after social media as well. She is one of the organizers of the event Tech-Trix 2019. As her recent work involve games, she is keen to write and explore the world of games. She looks after social media of HammerLab Creations and it’s clients. She says “New people and experiences are much more like reading a new book and you get to learn so much from them.” She loves to hear the stories as everyone has one or more. She believes in working as a team. She also says “Versatility is my thing”, as she used to actively participate in voluntary works during her scout days and has attended national training as well. She is a sportsperson and has participated in various competitions. She loves to explore places and cultures. She prefers either singing or dancing in her leisure time.

Summit Pathak, a web and Android Developer from Dulegaunda, Tanahun. He is a tech enthusiast and a geek who likes to play with latest technical stuff and loves programming. He is also a UI/UX designer for Mobile Application and has a keen interest in this technology. Besides this, he owns a web designing and web hosting company named Litchi Solution. He is currently perusing BSc (Hons) in Computing from Informatics College Pokhara.

Sambhav Bhurtel is someone who is passionate about technology, who strives to learn. He is a WordPress enthusiast and is proficient in writing content friendly with WordPress and search engine optimization. He is a continuous learner who wishes to contribute on Web Design and Development field. Being a computer science student, he is very much interested in WordPress and the community.

Prem Karki is WordPress theme developer. He is 22 years old an honest, self-motivated and hardworking boy. Recently studying at BSC.CSIT (8th Sem.) in Texas College, Mitrapark, Kathmandu. He wants to be professional in this field & has been working in WordPress for more than 2 years. He is fond of exploring new technology, playing with codes, fixing problems, robotics. He is positive attitude person with talkative habit

I am a student pursuing my bachelor degree in Bsc.CSIT at Birendra Multiple Campus. I am tech loving girl , a learner and a girl who keep courage to develop myself day by day. I am to be a web developer as I know HTML, CSS, little bit of Javascript, php and able to make the websites using WordPress themes and plugins.

Moreover, I use to engage in many group and community such as MSP 2018 and MSP 2019, Treasurer as Csitan CHITWAN and an active member at WordPress Bharatpur.

WordPress Developer and Theme Reviewer. Currently, I am working as a Theme developer at Template Sell. I first started WordPress in 2013, and since then it has become my profession. I love contributing to the WordPress community in many ways, including support, themes. Besides that, I like to travel, Read Novel, play football and hang out with friends in free time.

Milan is currently working as a WordPress Theme Developer at Rara Themes, he has been involved in WordPress since 2015. His love for open source software is immense and is actively serving the community. I have attended WordCamp 2017 and 2018, attending in 2019 as a volunteer. Besides work, I am more in football.

Ram Krishna Dhakal, currently I am studying BSC.CSIT. Being a technical student I am always keen on technology. Mostly, I am interested in web designing and development. I believe in hard work and learning from mistakes. Besides, I love playing cricket, exploring new places.

Binayak Poudel is a dedicated and hardworking tech enthusiast who loves exploring and contributing in the field of technology. He is a Computer Engineering student at Pokhara Engineering College. He is the co-founder and chairperson of leading social enterprise in Pokhara, “Urja Lab” that provides all the software and networking solution. He is working as a WordPress developer and SEO specialist. He has also completed his digital marketing course and now works as a part-time digital marketing specialist. Mr. Poudel is the Microsoft Student Partner (MSP) 2017. He is the community leader at Artificial Intelligence for Development (AID). He is also a social activist appointed as “vice president” of LEO district Council, 325 B1. He also contributed as treasurer of Youth Thinker’s Society, an independent organization dedicated to leadership development and capacity building of youths. And he is one of the organizers of one of the biggest “tourism” events, Tourism Digitalization Challenge (TDC). He is an adventure enthusiast, loves traveling.

Madhav Dhungana, CEO and Founder of Eagle Eye International Technology operating from Nepal (Butwal & Kathmandu) and New Zealand. After getting hands dirty on WordPress for his clients across the globe. After working with his clients for WordPress he started to develop various themes and plugins. And now WordPress is one of the major parts of his company along with Web Development, App Development and Technical Consulting.

Madhav is fast learner, highly motivated and Web Programmer, WordPress Developer, IT entrepreneur, Fintech investor and cyber security enthusiast.

He is an easy going person and believes in teamwork. His is IT entrepreneur by hobby and social activist by passion. Madhav is actively contributing through Rotract Nepal. Madhav is Team Lead at WordPress Butwal since 2018.

He is actively participating in almost WordCamp in Kathmandu since 2014. When he isn’t playing with a computer screen, he spends time on social activities, hanging out with friends and exploring new places.

You can find him on Twitter and Facebook

I am a maniac. Because I read and write like a crazy person. Too much, too passionately.

I am also strongly enthusiastic about marketing and public speaking. Due to which you can find me working at AccessKeys on work days as a Digital Marketer, and on weekends hosting events. On rare occasions, when I am doing none of these, I love listening to people or just letting my imagination run wild. Oh, and I dream lucid.

I’m a second-year student at Kathmandu College of Management studying marketing. With a great passion for books, music and public speaking, I’m always trying to become a better version of myself. Having a strong penchant for making punny jokes, I love making people around me laugh. With each passing day, I get to know myself a bit better and I believe in focusing on the good.