Haris Zulfiqar
WordPress Product Developer
WordPress as a Career with Gutenberg
Meet Mr. Haris Zulfiqar our Panelist for Panel Discussion on WordPress as a Career with Gutenberg.
Haris built and co-founded the company behind #1 selling premium WordPress theme. Created in 2012 and still the best selling WordPress theme with about 550,000+ copies sold and about ~1.2 million sites using it currently.
After his exit from the business of themes, he is currently interested in and pursuing Gutenberg.
Salma Noreen
Blogger, Freelancer & Trainer
How to make a living using WordPress?
I am Salma Noreen, an award-winning top freelancer of Pakistan with 10+ years of working experience in the field of freelancing, an award-winning trainer ‘Content Marketing & Advertising’ for past 2 years, a public speaker, and first Pakistani female community organizer leading WordPress Official chapter in Pakistan. I love to inspire others especially women by sharing my achievements and experience in public speaking forums, conferences, and universities’ seminars. I’m actively working on women empowerment and empowering Pakistani youth by encouraging them to participate in community events and educational meetups to connect with like-minded people.
Sajid Javed
Happiness Engineer at Automattic
WORDPRESS AS A CAREER WITH GUTENBERG
A WordPress developer, customer support and relationships ninja, founder of WordPress Islamabad and Rawalpindi meetup and WordCamp Isb 2018. Happiness Engineer @ Automattic.com.
Passionate about coding, customer support, WordPress and the community.
Waqas Muhammad
WordPress Developer & Trainer
WordPress as a Career with Gutenberg
I am Waqas Muhammad -WordPress Developer- & Trainer. I am working last 4 years in WordPress development. My journey started at Netsol Tech. I worked at NetSol Technology one and half years as a Software Engineer. After that, I just started my own company that’s name MechPlan. Right now, I am working as a Tech Trainer at eRozgaar PITB. I am serving as a WordPress Trainer at the University of Gujrat Rawalpindi, UET Taxila | University of Engineering and Technology and COMSATS University Attock Campus for the last 2 years.
Ijaz Rafi
CO-FOUNDER WPMINDS & WPSUPPORTDESK
Scaling Up Your WordPress Business
WordPress Consultant for Small Business Owners, Marketing Agencies, Web Design Agencies, Specialize in Genesis Framework.
Always looking for new things to learn and trying to improve every day by 1%. Travelling and photography are what I do when not working in WordPress.
Fahad Mehmood
WordPress Mechanic
Scaling Up Your WordPress Business
My overall experience is diversified. Image manipulation with core GD2 and imagick used in a couple of online designing tools. PDF reports automation, PayPal and 2Checkout CSV import for invoice mapping, mass mailing, email moderation engine, shopping carts and famous open sources used for various projects. In addition, ORM and CRUD automation practiced in 2 major projects. Doctrine/Propel, XCart, Open Cart, Joomla, WordPress, Codeigniter, CakePHP used for a few famous portals in last decade. Have worked for US/Canada, UK and Australian markets regarding FFMPEG for video files manipulation including conversion, thumbnails and streaming. Good hands on flash action-script, flex builder, core java, j2me and c# in programming.
Saad Iqbal
CEO at WPExperts.io
Scaling Up Your WordPress Business
My name is Saad Iqbal, running an agency WPExperts.io from 2011. We worked with small to enterprise level clients worldwide. Also, from the last 3 years started selling WordPress Plugins and Themes. This year organized, sponsored, speak at WordCamp Karachi as well.
Kamran Shafi
Freelance Guru
Crap 2 Gold with WordPress
Hello, I, Kamran Shafi, have 9 years of experience in Website design and development, especially with WordPress. I’ve worked on a variety of brands and with agencies both big and small. I love to work with all internet based systems but I am at my peak performance when working with WordPress for my fantastic client base. I have a very strong work ethic and love to see my clients extremely happy with the work that I have done for them. I am building a strong client base and would love for you to test my skills, I know that you will be overly satisfied with my web creations.
Raees Iqbal
Product Engineer at Netlify Inc.
Scaling WordPress to Infinity
I work as a Product Engineer with Netlify Inc. (netlify.com). And have worked previously as a Fullstack Engineer with Serverless Inc. (serverless.com) for around two years. I’m working on a new product right now that brings serverless technologies to WordPress ecosystem. The idea is to make WordPress scale on demand while bringing down the complexities and costs to a minimum.
Mohammad Khan
Entrepreneur & Adventurer
Topic: Steps to Turn Pro with Your Blogging
I have been blogging since blogging was called journaling and John C Dvorak declared it as the best new thing since CD ROM. I remember, vaguely though, being excited about the admin UI design upgrade by Happy Cog, which felt that WordPress has finally made it mainstream. Yes, this was back when WordPress was not considered mainstream. I have been developing sites for others, and hosting my own experiments and sites on WordPress ever since (I have been making websites since 98). My blog won the best business blog award for Pakistan in 2011, and our community is what makes this whole effort worth it. We managed to host the first of its kind meetup back in 2012, where 75 people showed up from five different cities of Pakistan. With 5000+ double opt-in email subscribers, the small community of creative entrepreneurs on the blog continue to inspire and (inshAllah) grow. I have written articles for ProBlogger and HuffPost, and have been a keen admirer and user of all WordPress has to offer. Blogging has been and still is the central homebase for creative expression and business development.
Misbah Ali
Chief Marketing Officer at Moftak Solutions
Topic: Myths about Digital Marketing
I am working as Chief Marketing Officer at Moftak Solutions. I have 7 years of experience in SEO, SEM, SMM, ORM, Affiliate, and Influencers Marketing. I am expert in Content Creation and Content Marketing. I have practical expertise in making Marketing Strategy and Marketing Plan. In short, I have been working with many different types of clients from UK, US, Canada, and Australia mostly. I have organised many talks and sessions for different platforms like Google. I have delivered my own session as well. I am natural, robust and motivational when it comes to describe me as a speaker. I love making people learn through my experiences and vice versa. Looking forward to make a positive impact through this platform as well.
Asim Bawany
CEO Codeup
Topic: B2B eCommerce – The next frontier for WooCommerce
I have been a power user if WordPress since 2009 and was using WordPress to power my own affiliate business and an eCommerce store using Woo-commerce.
Today, I run Codup, a premium development agency that serves high end clients in the US and uses WordPress and Woo-commerce extensively to bring high complexity projects to life.
Shakir Ali
Senior Systems Engineer at 10UP
Topic: Working Remotely ‘Best Practices’
Shakir Ali is a Senior Systems Engineer at 10UP, having more than 11 years of experience in systems administration. While working with 10UP from last 3 years, he is involved in providing reliable, scalable and highly secure web-hosting environment for WordPress websites of its clients.
Shakir Ali is also a co-organizer of WordPress Community chapters Islamabad and Abbottabad
Fahad Murtaza
Full Stack Engineer
Topic: WordPress as a Headless CMS: Building an app with WordPress
I am Fahad Murtaza. I have been working with WordPress since version 1.2 starting in 2004. Since then, I have helped a good number of companies with their PHP and WordPress Projects. My skill growth with WordPress has been exponential as I kept learning and experimenting with most of the new features that were released with each new version. I am always looking for ways to share what I know with the community.
Kaleem Ullah
Program Manager at NIC Lahore
Topic: Scaling up the business
Kaleem Ullah has been a serial entrepreneur for more than 10 years. He has ventured in Technology, HR and FMCG sectors. Kaleem advises startups at National Incubation center Lahore at LUMS alongside a platitude of other responsibilities that expose entrepreneurs to the industry and prepare them for the challenges that lay ahead. He advises startups about Business Strategy, Customer acquisition and Investment readiness to ensure their preparation to scale up and meet established goals.
Roshaan Saeed
Sr. Product Designer at Afiniti & Founder at Stipple
Topic: Design a Customer Experience
She is a UX/UI Desiger and a Community Strategist. Based on her interest in the field of UX/UI and design, she always wanted to develop a platform for young freelancers to support local freelance designers or digital artists. Her interest in the field enabled her to empower female freelance designers to compete worldwide through her startup “Stippple”.
For this very reason in the past 2 years, she has linked with and hosted alongside international design communities such as, Glug, Sketch, Dribble, Over Flow, Fiverr, etc. to provide talented Pakistani designers a gateway to enter the global community and share their stories.
Because every DOT has a story.
M Tanveer Nandla
Trainer & Blogger
Topic: Taking Analytics to the Dance Floor
M Tanveer Nandla, a preeminent Webpreneur of Pakistan with more than 12 years of experience in the field is an IT Professional currently working with Pakistan’s biggest web portal UrduPoint.com as a Search Engine Optimization Strategist. He is also working with eRozgaar, a Punjab Information Technology Board initiative to make the youth of Pakistan self-employed through freelancing, blogging and eCommerce to put his envisioned empowered and brighter Pakistan into reality. Covered by dozens of top Pakistani Tech news sites like ProPakistani, UrduPoint, BeingGuru and DailyPakistan, M Tanveer Nandla has earned massive acknowledgement as one of the most successful event bloggers of the country. M Tanveer Nandla is also running an IT Solutions company MWebs IT Solutions that provides various solutions of digital marketing to its clients locally and worldwide.