Organizers

  • Utsav Singh Rathour (Lead Organizer)

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    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.

  • Suvash Khadka (Community Wrangler)

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    Suvash Khadka, WordPress Enthusiast has been engaged in WordPress Nepal Community since its establishment from 2011/12 to present date. He is the Coordinator of WordPress Nepal Community who has been actively supporting WordPress communities via different activities, few to include are WordPress Meetup, WordPress College/University Events, WordCamps. He has played various organizers role in WordCamps continuously without a break in WordCamps as WordCamp Kathmandu, Bharatpur and so forth. Likewise, he has been WordPress Meetup Lead several times. He is also an initiator who believes in giving back to the community via WordPress. Mr. Khadka is also engaged with WordPress communities as WordPress Bristol, WP London.

    Mr. Khadka is also renowned faced in ICT sector in Nepal who has been awarded by Government of Nepal for his initiatives. He’s worked as an expert, senior consultant, members of various committees in Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, Nepal Telecommunications Authority, Department of IT, NITC. He is serving as a High Level Steering Committee Member for Cyber Security Byelaw in NTA. He is leading ICT industry of Nepal, as a CEO of largest internet industry alliance namely ISPAN. Similarly, industry alliance of Nepal- FNCCI ICT Development Committee member. Likewise, CAN Federation, Board Member, Chairman of CyberSecurity, Cyber Law & Regulation Committee. He had also worked as a Board Member, Vice Chair of Internet Governance Committee in Internet Society, Nepal. He’s also Nepal IGF MSG Member. Mr. Khadka is active in the board of International community as digitALLearning, UK|Europe, United Network Board and is a member of reputed organization as BCS.

    Mr. Khadka has achieved various professional certifications. He works with group of companies (part time) as System Analyst, Project Manager. He’s a lecturer who has been teaching from last 10 years for IT programs as CSIT, BCA, MSc. IT delivering Computer Networking, Cloud Computing, Network Security, Cybersecurity, System Analysis and Design, Web Technology.

  • Surendra Shrestha (Sponsor Wrangler)

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    Surendra, CEO & Founder of Rigorous Web and Aarambha Themes has worked as Software Engineer since 2010. He is a self-learned and highly motivated Web Programmer, WordPress Developer, and IT Entrepreneur. He would like to call himself a Happiness WordPress Consultant. He empowers most of his client’s architectures with WordPress, helping them communicate their values and successes better. He is also one of the top most Certified Expert at Codeable.

    Surendra is one of the active organizers at WordCamp Kathmandu 2016, WordCamp Kathmandu 2017, and WordCamp Kathmandu 2019. He participated in WordCamp Europe 2016 in Vienna, Austria, and WordCamp Ubud 2017 in Bali, Indonesia. He felt proud to be a part of the flagship event WordCamp Europe 2019 as a volunteer in Berlin, Germany. Currently, he is leading the WordPress Kathmandu Meetup Group.

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

  • Manish Pyatha (Website Wrangler)

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    Manish is currently working as Project Manager at Web Experts Nepal. The very first WordCamp that he had attended back in 2015 was the turning point for his career. Since then, he has been involved with the WordPress community by actively speaking in the local meetups and attending WordCamps of various cities. Working with various clientele projects along with involvement in the community made him eager to join WordCamp Kathmandu 2022 as the Website Wrangler.

  • Regan Khadgi (Speaker Wrangler)

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    Regan Khadgi is a freelancer WordPress Solution Engineer whose fortey is to provide any solutions required in the web using WordPress. Currently he is working as a WordPress Consultant in a German based company named Plantura and also working as WordPress Lead in Nepal’s top news portal Onlinekhabar.
    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. He also worked as a Speaker wrangler in WordCamp Kathmandu 2019, WordCamp Bharatpur 2019 and WordCamp Butwal 2020.
    Besides WordPress and Coding, 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.

  • Sunita Rai (Speaker Wrangler)

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    Sunita is a digital marketer with more than seven years of experience. She specializes in 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’s now more involved in freelance writing, training beginners, and directing and managing some WordPress blogs. You can find her on Twitter @TheSunitaRai.

  • Sweta Shrestha (Finance Wrangler)

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    Sweta has been contributing to theme reviews at Catch Themes and loves her work. A graduate of Information Management, Sweta chose technology for a career and hasn’t looked back since. Currently working with Catch Themes team in development of WordPress Themes and Plugins.
    Sweta started getting involved on WordCamp from 2015 and fell in love with WordPress community ever since, she is also a key contributor to WordCamp Kathmandu 2017 and 2018, 2019 overseeing the financial aspect of the whole even.
    Besides WordPress, she likes to travel, read books and cook yummy food.

  • Sandilya Kafle (Contribution Wrangler)

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    Mr. Kafle is a WordPress Themes Team Contributor at Rank Math and a brand ambassador of weDevs. Besides that, he is also a certified expert at Codeable.

  • Digamber Pradhan (Contribution Wrangler)

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    Digamber, is one of the co-founders at Codemanas Solutions, and primarily deals with WordPress Plugins and Themes. He is an open source enthusiast, who supports projects such as Typesense. Previously he spoke at WordCamp Kathmandu 2015 and 2016. You can also see him popup in a WordPress meetups from time to time.

  • Prithu Singh Thakuri (Communication Wrangler)

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    Prithu is a WordPress enthusiast who enjoys learning and exploring many aspects of WordPress, SEO content, online and social media marketing. She is into WordPress for the past 6 years. Currently, she is working as an Editorial Manager at RebelCode Pvt. Ltd. She started her career as a content writer at Access Keys Pvt. Ltd. where she later worked as the team lead for WPAll Club and content head for AccessPress Themes, and 8 Degree Themes. She also appeared on a few other blogging sites as a guest author. She has been attending WordCamps since 2016. She was one of the speakers at WordCamp Kathmandu 2017, and WordCamp Biratnagar 2018.

  • Asmita Neupane (Communication Wrangler)

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    She recently graduated with B.Sc.CSIT and join Rigorous Web Services as a Digital Marketing Officer. Now, she is contriving her web development skills to connect WP with React. Her contribution to WordPress Community was since 2018 as an attendee of various WordCamps at Pokhara, Kathmandu, and Butwal as well as a Social Media/ Publicity Wrangler at WordCamp Bharatpur 2019. She has also been a formal secretary of the CSITAN Association of Nepal – Chitwan.

  • Prakash Dangol (Design Wrangler)

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    He is currently working as a Senior Front End Developer in Matat Web Technology and have been involved in web technology for more than 8 years. As an entrepreneur and a tech enthusiast, he loves the art of designing and developing websites and web apps.He has also contributed to previous WordCamp 2019 as a volunteer and worked closely with the design team.Besides web development, he is a sports enthusiast as well and is into football, basketball and F1. If he is not infront of the computer, you will probably find him in the cafes of Naxal and Lazimpat.

  • Rohit Maharjan (Design Wrangler)

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    He was born and raised in Kathmandu. He is working as a designer(front-end developer) in AF Themes and have 5 years experience of design in WordPress themes and plugins. Since last 3 years, he is also in touch with WordPress Community Nepal. He was one of the helping hands in WordCamp Kathmandu 2019.

  • Milan Hamal (Venue Wrangler)

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    He is currently working as a Sr. WordPress Developer at Codewing Solutions, He has been involved in WordPress since 2015. His love for open source software is immense and is actively serving the community. He has attended WordCamp 2017, 2018 and attended as a volunteer in 2019. Besides work, he is more into football.

  • Madan Panthi (Volunteer Wranger)

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    Madan is Full time Developer working with WordPress and Laravel for past few years. He started his Professional career in 2015 as a PHP developer in Pattern Fusion Lab and then never stopped since. He is currently involved with Matat Technology.
    He has been actively participating in Tech Events, WordCamps and meetups. He loves contributing in open source communities and helping new-comers to the Tech Industry.

  • Abi Rana (Audio/Video Wrangler)

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    Abi Rana is a self-taught web developer, who is always inspired by how the web works and all the code technologies making huge changes to human life. That’s how he started to learn code and that makes him very motivated to develop websites.

    He loves to work with unique and complex designs and apply creative touch to it; with interactions and animations. Currently, he works as a freelance Interactive Web Developer and also partly works with a company called Pinegrow. And besides hand-coding websites, he is also so much into no-code (low-code) tools and has been developing websites using tools like Pinegrow, Webflow and WordPress, of course.

    Abi Rana has also been contributing to WordPress and different tech groups in Biratnagar. He is one of the organizers for the first WordCamp Biratnagar 2018. Beside that he contributes to couple of online forums where he does his best to solve issues for others.

  • Kishor Mahato (Print Wrangler)

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    Kishor, CEO & Founder of Sparkle Themes and Offshore Themes has worked as Software Engineer since 2013. He is a self-learned and highly motivated Python(Django), Shopify, Laravel and WordPress Developer, and IT Entrepreneur. He loves creating logic and structure for an elegant and effective codes. He would like to call himself an eCommerce Consultant. Besides that he loves to configure and deploy your own local server and virtual server.
    He has contributed his first WordPress plugins to WordPress.org repository in 2010 and he also contributed more to the REST API in WCKTM 2016. Now he has developed most useful plugins Digital License Manager to protect digital software and WP-Paddle payment gateway for WordPress and more.

  • Abhishek Rijal (Before and After Party Wrangler)

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    Abhishek Rijal is a professional WordPress developer, primarily involved in WordPress theme and Plugin development. Currently Working as a Freelance Developer, he has been involved with Theme Review, WordPress themes and plugins support team, customizations, and development of WordPress based products.

    Abhishek is an active participant and contributor to the regular WordPress meet-ups and community events around Kathmandu. He has also participated in WordCamp Kathmandu 2016 as a Volunteer, WordCamp Kathmandu 2017 as a speaker and WordCamp Kathmandu 2018 as a Contributor’s day lead.

    While not working, 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.

  • Saugat Shakya (Volunteer)

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    Saugat is a skilled and proficient WordPress developer who has worked professionally in almost all aspects of WordPress. He began using WordPress in 2016 and is now employed at Web Experts Nepal as a WordPress developer. He is a tech enthusiast who is always keen about learning and comprehending new technology. He claims that the WordPress community has greatly aided his professional and personal development, and as a result, he has been attempting to give back to the community in various ways.

  • Sujan Nagaju (Volunteer)

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    Sujan is a WordPress enthusiast who is presently employed with Web Experts Nepal. He entered the WordPress development field for the first time in 2018 through an internship program, and he has since developed his skills by working on client-based projects. By participating in WordCamp 2019 and looking to volunteer for WordCamp 2022, he has become active in the WordPress community.

  • Ranish Ghimire (Volunteer)

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    Ranish Ghimire is an enthusiastic learner currently in his final semester of CSIT. He got introduced to wordpress through an internship at Codewing Solutions. By volunteering on the wordcamp 2022 he wishes to contribute and learn more about the wordpress community. He is also an avid football fan and love to play football as well.

  • Sabin Shrestha (Volunteer)

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    Sabin started learning programming in early 2016, React, Node, and PHP developer. He started working in WordPress in early 2017. He started Pasal.com.np with the dream of bringing an Online marketplace to every person and every shop. He is a technologist at heart. Enjoy building disruptive, innovative technology products and services that have a worldwide impact, as well as advising and investing in startups that do the same. We are in an era where being brilliant is not enough being extraordinary is most. He quotes, “we should always learn to improve ourselves”.This is Sabin Shrestha, a young and determined person, Business enthusiast, and an active community contributor. You can Find more about Sabin on sabinsth.com.np

  • Nil Koirala (Volunteer)

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    Nil Koirala, WordPress Enthusiast, started using WordPress in 2013 to show off among friends and earn some online money, and now he enjoys his life around WordPress.

    Before fully being involved in WordPress Ecosystem, he worked as a PHP programmer (YII2), Network and System Engineer, and Desktop Support Engineer.
    In addition to directly working on the WordPress platform, he explores WordPress SEO, Digital Marketing, and different Community Events.
    And he considers himself a “forever student,” eager to learn and build. To document his learning journey and findings, he now started an exclusive Programming, WordPress, and Hosting related practical guide-sharing platform, Nil Node.

  • Deekshant Thapa (Volunteer)

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    After completing his Bsc. Csit course, joined Rigorous Web Services as a Frontend Developer. He is energetic and enthusiastic person with a passion for learning. Beside this, he loves football and is a travel enthusiast.

  • Saubhagya Rai (Volunteer)

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    Saubhagya Rai, He started his career as a WordPress developer back in 2019. Since then he has been working as PHP developer and currently working as full-time Laravel Developer. Besides tech and coding, he is a fan of movie and music.

  • Ashish Shrestha (Volunteer)

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    Ashish recently dived into the world of WordPress, and he is currently working as a front-end developer at Codewing Solutions. He is a tech enthusiast with an eagerness to learn. In his free time, he enjoys gaming and photography.

  • Sandeep Pangeni (Volunteer)

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    Sandeep Pangeni is Currently Studying Bachelor’s in Computer Application in the 7th Semester at New Summit College. He started his React journey from Pasal.com.np recently. He is enthusiastic about computer programming. He started WordPress from the 2nd Semester at college. He attends WordCamp Butwal 2020 as a Volunteer. He is also involved in different IT student organizations like SITS as an Executive member and Code for Change Kathmandu as Vice-Secretary. He has also volunteered for different technology events like TechTrix Nepal, CodeFest 2022 and Meetups.

  • Raffin Shrestha (Volunteer)

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    Raffin Shrestha WordPress Enthusiast, begin using WordPress in early 2018, Graphic designer based in Chitwan, with four years of experience in graphic art and Web design. He is also well versed in user interfaces and web development. Raffin has contributed and designed major project in his professional career as a Full-stack (Mern) Developer and Web /graphic Designer contributing on various Projects. You can find Raffin’s work on the additional links provided. https://dribbble.com/raffin https://www.linkedin.com/in/rafin-shrestha-075863114/

  • Sumir Shrestha (Volunteer)

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    Sumir is a recent college graduate, currently working as React Developer and Graphic Designer at pasal.com.np with willingness to learn and master in Front-end Development. Sumir has excellent focus, communication and ability to learn rapidly who excels working in a team environment.

  • Madan GC (Volunteer)

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    Madan is a passionate, creative, and driven IT student and am very willing to learn.
    He is currently working on a Codewing Solution as a frontend developer . He love playing games, watching movies, travelling to different places and taking photos.

  • Avishek Thapa (Volunteer)

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    Avishek is an undergrad studying Networking and Cyber Security. Apart from his studies, he is also very interested in web development and is always trying to learn anything he finds related to web development. He likes participating in Tech events and working on team events.

  • Manisha Nepal (Volunteer)

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    Manisha Nepal is Computer student currently pursuing her Bachelor’s Degree in computer application in 4th Semester. She got introduced to WordPress through an college meetup. She has keen interest in Programming, web applications. She is interested in reading books and learning new things. She loves plants and traveling.

  • Rajan Mani Poudel (Volunteer)

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    Rajan Mani Poudel is a creative designer and a Front end Developer who has been involved in the WordPress community since 2016. He loves to serve the WordPress community by giving back as he is still taking a lot of knowledge from the WordPress community. While not working he loves to travel and is more into football and music.

  • Bidhya Karki (Volunteer)

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    She is pursuing her bachelor’s degree in Computer Application.She is a WordPress enthusiast and has been attending WordPress meetup routinely and want to explore more on it. She has organized and volunteered different events such as TechTrix Nepal,KYC .She is currently involved in SITS(an IT student’s organisation) as a treasurer.

  • Bipasha Gyawali (Volunteer)

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    Bipasa Gyawali She is a computer student currently studying Bachelor’s degree in computer application in 7th semester.She is a WordPress enthusiast with passion for learning and exploring more on it.She got introduced to WordPress in her 4th semester.She is interested in web development.By volunteering wordcamp 2022, she wish to learn more and get engaged in WordPress community.

  • Prabhat Aryal (Volunteer)

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    Prabhat Aryal is a WordPress enthusiast. A Computer Science student, he has been actively involved in organizing tech events in college. He first attended the WordCamp back in 2017 and has been attending the Meetups and WordCamps in various cities. He loves meeting new people, traveling around, reading books, and learning new things.

  • Shraddha Shrestha (Event Host)

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    Bookaholic | Content Writer | Business Graduate | Digital Marketing Enthusiast

    Currently working at Renegade Insurance as a Content Writer, Shraddha loves to read and is a big fan of witty content. Since she joined the digital marketing department of Renegade Insurance, she has been fascinated with the nitty-gritty of digital marketing – especially Ads and Landing Pages. 

    Though a business graduate by education, she has a soft corner for arts and everything artistic. 

    You will mostly find her with a cup of tea, a nice book, or both 😉 

  • Pratisha Joshi (Event Host)

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    “Phoenix always rise from ashes and so can you”

    An avid believer of hope and hardship, this is Pratisha Joshi, our Master of Ceremony. She is currently doing her Masters in Sociology and hold Bachelors Degree in Physics. She is an experienced WordPress Content Writer, Copywriter, and an aspiring Digital Marketer. She is also passionate public speaker who has participated and won different national level speaking championships. Whenever she is free, she indulges herself in exploring new things via research, travel, adventures, and group discourses.

  • Kiran Singh Katuwal (Volunteer)

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    Kiran Singh Katuwal is an IT professional who is working for Wizonbiz Digital as a development head. Besides his professionalism, he has a  kind personality. He loves to help needy people. He also has an interest in traveling, cooking, and internet surfing.

WordCamp Kathmandu 2022 is over. Check out the next edition!