Volunteers

Abhishek Deshpande

Abhishek is a statistics graduate turned blogger, social media consultant and WordPress developer. He is currently working as a Solution Architect at Peenak solutions, Nagpur. His journey with WordPress started with WordPress 2.1 which introduced Blogspot blogger to PHP code poetry.

When not working on projects, you can find him on twitter as @fitehal participating in a twitter chat, or riding on his bike trying out street delicacies.

Hitesh Gusani

A 3D Photographer, Activist, Volunteer, Artist, Trekker, Director are some of the labels humans give Hitesh. To his core he is a human being who is a dreamer in 3D, ready for any selfless voluntary work.

Make sure you flash your smile when you see him. Who knows what aspect of Hitesh will turn your photo into a masterpiece!

Deokant Kumar

Deokant Kumar is an IT Consultant. He’s been in the IT industry since 2012 which is also the year he started trekking. Since then, he has completed four treks successfully.

He spends his free time in photographing his surroundings and wishes to explore the world through his lens. He loves travelling and sketching.

Aman Sharma

He’s a Pune based photographer who’s started photography some years ago. Photography has always been his passion especially fashion photography. Sometimes an image captures a moment in a way words fail to achieve.

He aims to engage the audience through his photos; to focus on intriguing subjects and timely events. So, you know who to look for, all you well dressed people!

Raj Shah

Raj Shah is a technology enthusiast and has been trying his hands in blogging since the past 3 years. He has volunteered and organized various college festivals during his college days. He has been living in Pune city since the past 2 years and likes meeting new people and interacting with people in the blogging world.

Umesh Nevase

Umesh Nevase is a Sr. Web Developer at rtCamp Solutions and has been working on WordPress since the last 6 years. Apart from having worked on numerous plugins and themes, he is also a regular core contributor. Before discovering WordPress, he used to work on PHP frameworks and .Net.

When he’s not working, he enjoys experimenting with food, being outdoors, playing sports, participating in social events and spending time with family.

Sangram Tukaram Chavan

Pursuing his B.E in Computer Engineering, Sangram is an active member of Computer Society and Cybersecurity Enthusiast. He loves to share knowledge, explore Big Data and experiment in IoT. His hobbies include Web & App development (Agile), Drawing and Coin collection.

He works with IEEEmadC organization to encourage young minds to develop innovative and productive apps. Recieved the IEEEmadC 2015 Team winner award: “”IEEE Connected Learning”” from Pune, R10. Volunteering moto is to foster technological innovation and excellence for the benefit of humanity. He supports Open Source Initiative and believes that “The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.”- Henry. After graduation, Sangram aspires on completing his post-graduation in Cybersecurity.

Utkarsh Sharma

A fresh blogger from India, Utkarsh is a computer science student having one year of experience in the blogging field. He has worked with many startups and has also helped organize various events, conferences, workshops and seminars. He is known as ‘commitment boy’ in his friend circle because of his passion for commitment. He believes in simplicity and positive thinking.

Nowadays he’s working on his own online startup website ‘Brainstrome’ that provides multi purpose information to users. He has a clear vision for his website and is trying to put all his efforts and learning experience into it. To support this, he is doing some freelancing work too.

He loves expressing his feelings into poems and quotes and loves to write stories and captions to describe images.

Harsh Amitbhai Shah

A gadget freak and a full stack developer, Harsh loves to develop stuff, be it software or hardware. He is currently studying his Computer Engineering at Ahmedabad. He has also had the oppurtunity to work with various organizations/groups such as Maker Dest 2015, MIT Media Lab, Google Developer Group, Google Business Group and Pycon APAC 2015 to name a few.

Harsh also has a startup called Cybo Insect which is basically a technology e-magazine and involves in doing R&D in softwares. He is also a regular speaker in various Universities where he talks about Cyber Circuitry, Google Chrome & Google Cardboard.

Rahul Gupta

24, Hungry and Loud. Rahul loves all things food, poetry and code. He left his job last year to start freelancing and exploring the world of WordPress plus a few other things. He is curious, talks a lot and his clients love him for being available 24×7, when working on a project. He could not solve the Rubik’s cube in record time or get a good rank for engineering – but he did it anyway :P.

When he is not working, you can find him reading a book, wondering about his very common first name or watching movies. This is his second visit to Pune and he is coming all the way from Haryana for a breakfast at Vohuman and WordCamp.

Ranjitha Panaganti

Ranjitha is a B.Tech graduate and has worked as a Manual Tester in Investment Banking for a period of 18 – 20 months in Sungard. She quit that job so that she could spend more time with her kids. After a break of four years she got an opportunity to work at Cityit Solutions Ltd. Having joined the company in Jan 2015 as a trainee, she got a chance to learn PHP, WordPress and also work on a couple of WordPress projects.

Ajay Maurya

Ajay Maurya is Web Developer working for Flying Cursor, a Digital Agency based in Mumbai. He consults and works on Front-end Web Development and UI Design for websites and applications with a specialization in WordPress Theme Development and PHP web apps. He has a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering and loves good design, code conversation and coffee.

You can follow him on twitter @aalootechie or read his thoughts on https://ajmaurya.wordpress.com/

Vachan Kudmule

Vachan became an entrepreneur in 2002, at 17, when he started his firm KDC (Krazy Devil Creationz). It has grown into a full-fledged web solutions agency. He’s studied architecture and started his second firm KDC Inc in 2006 which provides architecture and interior design solutions. He ventured into eCommerce Consulting in 2009 and started KDC Pay which assists startups in building full fledged eCommerce sites with Payment Gateway accruing and integration. At present Vachan is involved with all the three while also heading the design and technology teams for White Shadows, a digital marketing agency.

Vachan’s motto is “everything can and must be designed”. He’s passionate about FOSS (Free Open Source Software) and helping start-ups grow their business. Self learning and exploring new ideas keeps him motivated and he has pioneered many industry first concepts in alternative access mediums. He’s presently experimenting with Native Mobile App Development.

Aniruddh Agarwal

Aniruddh Agarwal has more than 3 years of experience in the field of WordPress Designing and 1 year experience as an
SEO Executive. He has been volunteering in various tech fests for his college and for the Startup Oasis also.

While currently pursuing his bachelors from Poornima College of
Engineering, Jaipur in Computer Science branch, he is also working on a website named Question Cart which is a portal for job seekers providers.

WordCamp Pune 2015 is over. Check out the next edition!