Organizers

Pitam Bahadur Sen (Lead Organizer)

Pitam Bahadur Sen, CEO and Founder at Webpage Nepal, an IT enthusiast from Pokhara. He is also serving proudly as a Co-Founder at Stupa Technology Pvt. Ltd.

He has been working as a leading person being involved in every WordCamp and WordPress Meetup without hesitating to share his knowledge. He has been very supportive and quite responsive towards WordPress Community Pokhara from its very beginning. In late March 2018, he contributed to WordCamp Kathmandu as a Media Wrangler. Besides, he has been conducting several WordPress Meetup and promoting WordPress all over Pokhara. This year, he is the lead organizer of WordCamp Pokhara 2018. He is passionately dedicated and motivated towards his work and his dedication and his hard work will definitely pay off and make this event a grand success.

You will find him very humble and cheerful person with smiley face every time. So, go on and have a chit chat with him, you will always find him motivated and friendlier.

Nishal Gurung (Sponsor Wrangler)

Nishal, a graduate in Software Engineering is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of Goreto Software. He is an avid WordPresser from Pokhara, Nepal. He ringed in with WordPress since last 3 years and is a very active member of WordPress Pokhara meetups. He is a well rounded person but has extensive, hands-on experience as a Full Stack Web Developer.

He powers most of his client’s architectures with WordPress, helping them to improve their web experiences. Through WordPress, he has built up his career to this point and believes that there is more to come. Apart from his professionalism at work, Nishal is also a lecturer at Gandaki College of Engineering and Science.

Pratima Sharma (Finance/ Speaker Wrangler)

Pratima is a part of the organizing team of WordPress Pokhara. She’s had a love of WordCamps since she stumbled upon WordCamp Kathmandu and is very much excited to be involved as a Finance and Speaker Wrangler at Pokhara’s first ever WordCamp. She is the co-founder and managing director at Mandala IT Solutions (P.) Ltd. where she wears many hats. In her spare time, she is an avid reader and a pensive writer.

Anish Upreti (Volunteer Wrangler)

Anish Upreti is a Web developer and an entrepreneur based in Pokhara, Nepal. He is Co-Founder of Skeinsoft, a company which focuses on web and app development and providing better web experiences to his clients.
Anish loves to contribute WordPress community. He has been involved in making WordPress Pokhara a strong tech community in Pokhara. He is always eager to learn new things.

Suwash Kunwar (Website Wrangler)

Suwash Kunwar is a co-founder of WEN Solutions. Prior to forming a company that works on Theme Review and Support, he was a passionate coder possessing high patience level. He believes in giving back to the community and considers offering the service of Theme Review and Support to the company involved in submitting Themes to WordPress.org directory is just a way of start.

Biplab Subedi (Speaker Wrangler)

Biplab Subedi loves to contribute WordPress community via volunteering, organizing and speaking at WordCamps. He is a co-founder of one of the leading WordPress based outsourcing companies in Nepal namely Eagle Vision IT. He has also co-founded eVision Themes, a WordPress theme development company.

Biplab is often found indulged in social works, traveling, and dreaming of better Nepal.

Shrijana Thapa (Social Media/Publicity Wrangler)

Shrijana Thapa is a software engineer and front end developer at Mandala IT Solutions Pvt. Ltd. As an IT enthusiast, she tries to get updated with the latest technology available. She came to WordPress by chance and got hooked since then as an active member of the WordPress Pokhara Meetup group. Having almost a decade long of experience in media, she is good atgiving trainings on public speaking and used to work at top radio stations of the city.
When she’s not typing away on a keyboard, you will find her working as an emcee at events around the city. She is also an avid book reader, has an immense love for travel and wishes to explore different places in her leisure time.

Niraj Pun Magar (Design Wrangler)

Niraj Pun, a UI/UX designer, currently working as a graphic designer at Webpage Nepal. He is mostly focused on creating and nurturing beautiful brands through illustration, logos, websites and research.
He specialize in branding, web design, app design and offer design services to businesses of all sizes, by crafting creative solutions to their business problems. He is currently perusing BSc (Hons) in Computing from Informatics College, Pokhara. He loves to travel and play musical instrument.

Manish Ranabhat (Volunteer)

Manish is currently studying Sofware engineering at GCES. Manish is UI/UX designer, a video editor. Besides design, He is an adventure enthusiast and photographer.

Sunil Pandey (Media Wrangler)

Sunil Pandey is Founder & CEO at XL Soft Tech Pvt web development and Software Company. He is a Front-end Developer by passion for more than eight years. He has also worked as a lecturer and an IT professional in different Engineering and IT colleges in Pokhara. He holds a master’s degree in ‘Computer Information System’ from Pokhara University. For some years, he worked for a couple of leading companies in Nepal. After then in 2009, he established his own company ‘XL Soft Tech Pvt. Ltd.’ However, being an IT expert he has some odd hobbies, which have made him notorious among his staff and clients. Besides CEO of his company, he is an avid nature lover and his best hobby is trekking.

Sabitri Shahi (Food & Beverage Wrangler)

Sabitri Shahi is WordPress Developer at Webpage Nepal from last 5 years. She is continuously involved in the WordPress Pokhara. She was on the organizer team of WordCamp Kathmandu 2018. She finds her job beautiful and she is profound that she will build a successful career in the same field not only fulfilling her own desires. But she believes that she will endow the IT field she works with beauty.

Bibek Chalise (Print Wangler)

Bibek is a Freelancer WordPress Developer from Pokhara who loves open source culture, coding and web-design. He initially started with implementing themes to creating a custom theme, do modification in the available plugin for users. Currently he holds micro certification in “Corporate Cyber Security Management”, “Advanced Computer Forensics” “Post Exploitation Hacking”and “Advanced Penetration Testing”. His love for coding started when he was introduced to computer in his early childhood in school. He develops, maintains and secures open source sites and loves Github.

Dhruba Bahadur Chhetri (Audio/Video Wrangler)

Dhruba Bahadur Chhetri is active member of WordPress Pokhara. Professionally he is a Teacher as well as a passionate photographer. Beside his teaching profession, he is truly and passionately involved in Tech events and motivating youths towards Technology. He likes to call himself as a “WordPress Lover and Tech Enthusiast”. Especially interested on designing, photography & themes.

Sudhama Thapa (Venue Wrangler)

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.

Summit Pathak (Volunteer)

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 blockchain researcher 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.

Prabin Pokharel (Volunteer)

Prabin Pokharel, A smart technology hungry guy currently studying B.Sc. CSIT at Soch College of IT. Result oriented, self-driven, highly motivated, smart and hungry to learn new technologies, methodologies, strategies, and processes enjoy teamwork. Hard working and enthusiastic. He is involved in different kinds of social works and tech events and involved as a web developer and IT support in different companies.

Kabita Parajuli (Volunteer)

Kabita is currently studying computer engineering in Paschimanchal Campus of Engineering, Pokhara. She loves developing a web application and has experience in developing web apps using core PHP and laravel. she always loves to build herself and people around by learning new ideas and get updates with growing technology. She likes to call herself a learner of  WordPress and looking forward to work with WordPress community member.

Bikey Bhujel (Volunteer)

Bikey is a software engineer and freelancer with average experience from Pokhara who loves coding. As a student, he started coding when he was introduced to programming languages. He is dedicated towards his work and loves to develop, maintain and secure websites.

Rashila Lamichhane (Volunteer)

Rashila Lamichhane, is an undergraduate student of Bachelor in Computer Engineering from Paschimanchal Campus, Pokhara. She was also an active member in computer society in her campus. Her work as a passionate person dates back to her college days, and she was involved in the various social organization like Youth Thinkers Society and personality development movements. She is a young lady who is always willing to build herself and people around by learning new ideas. Born and brought up in Nawalparasi, she believes that it is important to learn more things and get updated with the growing technology. A passionate lady, Miss Lamichhane strives to make a difference through work and passion.

Ujjwal Adhikari (Volunteer)

Ujjwal Adhikari, an undergraduate student of Bachelor in Electrical Engineering from Paschimanchal Campus, Pokhara. He is passionate person dates back from his college days, and he gets involved in various social programme conduction and personality development movements. He is a young guy who is always willing to build himself and people around by learning new ideas and concept. Born and brought up in a beautiful city, Pokhara he believes that it is important to learn more things and get updated with the growing technology.

Nabin Acharya (Volunteer)

Nabin Acharya is WordPress developer. He loves for , what he do. His passion is to build beautiful, clean and professional websites, themes and plugins. He is a Co-founder of Skein Software Builders, Pokhara and he is actively working on WordPress since 2015.
Currently, he is studying BSc. CSIT at Mount Annapurna Campus, Pokhara in final year (8th semester).

Jeevan Acharya (Volunteer)

Jeevan Acharya, a WordPress enthusiast as well as web developer. He has been using WordPress since 2016 and currently, studies BE computer at Pokhara. He is the new future of this community.

Arun Kumar Pariyar (Volunteer)

Arun Kumar Pariyar is a free and open source and linux enthusiast. He has years of experience on web technologies and WordPress as his primary content management system. Arun is one of the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Director at Mahuri Ventures, a tech company based in Chitwan. He is also the Co-Founder and Lead developer of a popular Linux distribution of Nepal ie Chitwanix OS.
He is currently pursuing his Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science and Information Technology (Bsc. CSIT) at Indreni College, Bharatpur.

Arun has expertise on security, performance, high availability and performance of servers running WordPress in large-scale. He has worked on design and development of many customized themes for companies. Arun is one of the active volunteers in many FOSS communities, WordPress Chitwan Community and has presented in many WordPress meetups and workshop. Besides technology, he enjoys riding his bike, hacking stuffs, debating with his colleagues and taste new foods.

Prashant Adhikari (Volunteer)

Prashant Adhikari is a free and open source and Linux enthusiast. He has years of experience in web technologies and WordPress as his primary content management system. He has also experience with Python programming.

He is currently pursuing his Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science and Information Technology (Bsc. CSIT) at Indreni College, Bharatpur. He has worked on design and development of many customized themes for companies. Prashant is one of the active volunteers in many FOSS communities, WordPress Chitwan Community and has presented in many WordPress meetups and workshop.

Saurab Sharma (Volunteer)

Saurab knows that design is his passion and is working as a UI/UX designer at Mandala IT Solutions. He has a strong eye for pixel perfect design and specializes in designing and developing user interfaces and digital products. Besides his love for design, Saurab is an adventure enthusiast and has an intense interest in football and music.

Praveen Giri (Volunteer)

He is currently pursuing Bachelors Degree in Engineering is an active attendee of WordPress workshops and meetup and has been working on his personal blog. He has worked in different organizations and is Joint secretary of Youth Thinkers Society Pokhara, a youth-led organization in Pokhara. He is overwhelmed to be part of the grand event and 1st of its kind in Pokhara.

Sushil Subedi

Sushil Subedi, a student of BSc. CSIT seventh semester is a WordPress enthusiast and activist of WordPress Chitwan. He has been doing projects on WordPress as well as contributing to WordPress Chitwan conducting workshops related to WordPress. He is one of the active members to conduct WordPress meetups in Chitwan. He has also attended WordCamp Kathmandu as a participant which was held on March 2018 and now, he is one of the Volunteers of WordCamp Pokhara.

Sushil is very polite, hard-working and always dedicated towards his work and WordPress community. His interest in learning new technologies is simply unexplainable.

Sachet Shrestha (Volunteer)

Sachet Shrestha  is working as a WordPress Developer at Mandala IT Solutions.He is a student of Electronics and Communication Engineering at Pokhara Engineering College.He specializes in backend development and likes to play games and travel. Also he is an active member of WordPress Pokhara Meetup group.

Bhawana Bhandari (Volunteer)

Bhawana Bhandari is studying Computer Engineering at Pokhara Engineering College. She is an active member at WordPress meetup Pokhara. She loves to travel and explore new places.

Anupama Karki (Volunteer)

Anupama Karki is a student of Computer faculty at Pokhara Engineering College. She is a web developer. Her interest, however, extends beyond the web & love helping people also a member of Manav Sewa Ashram, loves playing basketball & travelling. She aims to become a freelancer &  Commercialization Engineer. She believes in finding her voice & inspire others to find theirs.

Anil Khattri (Volunteer)

Anil Khattri is student of computer engineer at Pokhara Engineering College. He is a WordPress developer at Mandala IT Solution and also working as a president of Computer Association of Pokhara Engineering College. He generally strives for pixel perfect design, clean robust code and user-friendly interface.
He also has contributed to numerous social organization including Dari Gang, and other different Social Youth Clubs. He is known for his passion for his beard, but is also crazy about gaming, functional programming and data visualizing.

Bikash Pun Magar(Volunteer)

Bikash is WordPress developer at Nepotech for the last 4 years and Lead member of WordPress Chitwan Community. Beside of his IT profession, He is very passionately involved in Football. He started his IT career since 2011 as a WordPress Theme  Designer, and continuously contributing  to WordPress Platform.

He likes to call himself as a WordPress Lover and tech enthusiast, Passionate sport person, adventurous person and a historian.

Binayak Poudel (Volunteer)

Binayak Poudel, 4th-year Computer Engineering student of Pokhara Engineering College is the co-founder of a start-up company “Urja Lab” that provides all the software and networking solution. He is a coder and tech enthusiast 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.

Sagar Gaire (Volunteer)

Sagar Gaire, one of the active member of WordPress Pokhara. He believes in giving back to community. Currently he is studying computer engineering in Paschimanchal campus of engineering.

Shankar Karki (Volunteer)

With this firm belief, Shankar Karki believes that human hunger should always waft the path of technology. He is hardworking,  dedicated and passionate learner always looking for aspiring his hobbies.  Currently, he is pursuing   Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering. He has been actively involved in WordPress Monthly Meetup and workshop. He loves writing tech blogs and is always fascinated by tech journal.

Bibek Sapkota (Volunteer)

Bibek Sapkota is a passionate youth currently doing Bachelors In Information Technology. He is a social activist by heart. He has been actively involved in Lions Club International As District Tail Twister of Leo District Council 325 B1 Nepal. Mr Sapkota is playing an active role in the promotion of debating culture in Nepal being a board member of Debate Network Nepal – DNN. As a youth entrepreneur, He is leading Cumulus Clouds Nepal Paragliding as Managing Director and a Social Enterprise Urja Lab as Executive DIrector. He is also a Council Member of United States Embassy Youth Council (USYC). Moreover, he is also a farmer running Himalayan Earth Farm, Baglung.

Prajjwal Poudel (Volunteer)

Prajjwal is currently studying computer engineering in Paschimanchal campus of engineering, Pokhara. He loves developing web applications and has experience in developing web apps using core PHP and laravel. he is still a learner on WordPress and looking forward to work with WordPress community members.

Aadarsh Tiwari (Volunteer)

Aadarsh Tiwari is a tech enthusiast, currently studying Bachelors in Computer Engineering in Pokhara Engineering College, Phirke-6, Pokhara. He is a Web Designer and Developer with a keen interest in WordPress.  He is fond of exploring new technology, playing with codes, fixing problems, robotics. Also he is an active member of WordPress Pokhara Meetup group.

WordCamp Pokhara 2018 is over. Check out the next edition!