WordCamp Mumbai 2017

Introducing our next speaker for WordCamp Mumbai 2017 – Nirav Mehta.

We all aspire for better life.

Some people want to start on their own – launch a plugin, theme or SaaS… Some want to build a consulting business around WordPress. Many want to be great developers. Most want to become great at whatever they’re doing.

But the path to greatness and fulfillment is full of challenges. So what could keep you going strong?

Sometimes you wonder, if there is a pot of gold at the end of your rainbow… Will you succeed? Is it all worth it?

Join Nirav in this quick retelling of some of his near-fatal adventures in entrepreneurship and technology. Listen to his journey of chasing aspirations and tough lessons.

Did he discover his pot of gold? Would he recommend you go down the path he took?

Find the answers. Do attend this one!

About Nirav Mehta

Nirav is called the entrepreneur geek. A geek turned entrepreneur who still loves writing code 😉

He’s a master storyteller – all his talks at earlier WordCamps were super-hits!

Nirav has built a rather eventful track record over the last 18 years. He launched India’s first electronic magazine, a thriving web agency that went down in 2009, made a heroic return and recovery, then a string of successful product businesses in parallel. He’s a published author of three books and speaks at various tech and business events.

But hey, numbers and all the claim-to-fame apart, what’s most important about him is that he is down to earth, has great knowledge and experience and loves to help. So if you have any questions about WordPress, WooCommerce; starting up, running or scaling a tech business, he’s your goto guy!

Start with following him on Twitter @niravmehta! You can learn more about his WordPress solutions at: http://www.storeapps.org and http://www.icegram.com

Introducing our Fourth Speaker for WordCamp Mumbai 2017 – Sudar Muthu.

In this talk, Sudar will talk about the various developer tools that he uses to increase his productivity as a WordPress developer. Sudar has been developing for WordPress for more than half a decade and over a period of time he has found various developer tools that helps him to increase his productivity.

This will be a talk more about his experience using these tools and detailing what worked and what didn’t work rather than just talking about these tools and giving an introduction.

Tools that he will be covering are the following:

• wp-cli – To efficiently interact with WordPress admin, even over SSH
• phpcs – To quickly catch any WordPress formatting or coding errors
• xDebug – To debug performance and other code issues
• vagrant – To setup proper local development setup
• phpUnit – To run Unit tests
• IDE – PhpStorm and Vim

About Sudar Muthu

Sudar Muthu works as a Senior Web Engineer with 10up, a WordPress based web agency and WordPress VIP partner.

Sudar is involved in WordPress plugin development for more than 8 years and has released about 2 dozen WordPress plugins. Details at https://profiles.wordpress.org/sudar/#content-plugins

Sudar has also contributed to all major WordPress releases starting from 4.3

He blogs about WordPress at http://sudarmuthu.com/blog/ and is available in Twitter as @sudarmuthu

Introducing our Third Speaker for WordCamp Mumbai 2017 – Bhushan Jawle.

One of the greatest strengths of WordPress is its simplicity. It is easy to install, start & keep publishing new content. No wonder it commands almost 27.5% of the web! However that is where most of the site owners stop thinking about WordPress.

And then, one day, you open browser, enter your URL and there is “Internal Server Error”! (HTTP 500).

Do you know someone in this situation? OR perhaps encountered it yourself?

Most of the times, security doesn’t figure out in discussion before, because site owner, just getting started with building an audience, thinks, “He/she is not important enough” to hack.

OR maybe they followed hardening instructions word-by-word and were still hacked!

(Trust me he did that, and was still hacked)

In this talk, Bhushan will share some of his learning in this area. He will cover some such common myths around security. He will also briefly cover 3 common types of hacks/injections along with some free/open source tools you can use to identify, rectify and stay safe.

In summary, Bhushan will walk you through some learning and do’s and don’ts in keeping site secure.

About Bhushan Jawle

Bhushan is a Computer Engineer by education, with over 21 years of professional experience.

He started programming when DOS was the only operating systems on personal computers.

Starting with C, and has worked on various languages including (assembly) C++, VC++, Java, Javascript and PHP and has been working on web development since early 2001 (Sun Certified Java Developer and Sun Certified Web Component Developer).

He has worked on various time critical systems in investment banking domain including algorithmic trading and led a team which was amongst the first to send algorithmic orders in India on NSE & BSE.

Out of his 15 years of experience in investment banking technologies, he has spent almost a decade in Tokyo(Japan), leading to almost compulsive focus on Kaizen (continuous improvement) and speaks conversational Japanese.

Bhushan believes in philosophy of Open Source (“Free as in speech”), and runs a web & mobile development firm Sanganak Technologies LLP, which specializes in WordPress, Yii and React Native.

Apart from technology, he is a father, husband, singer (Kishore Kumar & RD Burman fan), mimicry artist, a Toastmaster, a voracious reader and plans to read 50 new books in 2017.

You can tweet him @bhushanjawle

Introducing our Second Speaker for WordCamp Mumbai 2017 – Mridula Harshvardhan.

Being productive is a choice, but most of us see it as a have to, if we aren’t productive company will throw us out. Or as a should, if we are not productive, we will not grow. All is true, but the moment have to and should come, the choice is gone for a toss, and we are in a driven state of mind. And if anything goes wrong, we are ready with our fingers to point at somebody else.

Basically choice comes from responsibility, but most of us hear Blame in background when the word responsibility fall on our ear. Either we are avoiding blame or taking blame. Zero responsibility, hence zero choice, henceforth all the have to’s and should.

Leaving productivity to chance not choice.

What would happen if you don’t ‘have to’ be productive; instead you could choose your productivity? Would you choose low productivity or high productivity? Most of us want to increase our productivity, we know what stops us, we know how to improve, but we still do not know why we are still under productive. Do you want to know what stops you from being 100% productive in work and life?

I will discuss this and many more dimensions of how Chance makes us powerless and Choice can Empower us, in the session.

About Mridula Harshvardhan

Mridula is Axelerant’s Life Coach. She has 17 years of experience in domains of upskilling, business development, talent transformation, training, and team development. She works with healthy people who want to improve their lives. She helps people get from where they are; to where they want to be.

One of many interesting works she do is to enable people to reach and change the underlying thoughts and emotions that drive habits, routines and actions. She is interested in empowering people to identify and use their own character strengths, wisdom, courage and knowledge to identify and transform things they can; and re-frame what they can’t.

Mridula has travelled extensively and currently resides in New Delhi. She’s been known to escape from work by swimming, singing, writing, reading, and occasionally playing guitar. Later in life, her desire is to work with children and those in need.  Being a life coach for her is t to foster happiness possible for Axelerant team while pursuing personal excellence and milestones.

With 440 volts of continuous learning mode, 880 volts of humility, 1760 of fun, 3520 volts of passion and 7040 volts of life detected in her, it’s her willingness to evolve which keeps her going!

You can tweet her @LifeCoach_Mridu