About Session
Through this talk, Nagesh would like to recall his own experience doing a small project for his ethnic community – RadioIdli.net. This was a multimedia blog that helped bring him small community together, with its people spread around the world.
The project helped Him with:
> Learning about WordPress
> Demonstrate his growing skills in a live project, as He learnt
> Network and spread his contacts to a wider audience to grow his freelance practice, without a single sales pitch :), or an intrusive push.
All of this of course led him to many dream jobs, and projects including his current one at Automattic.
Nages feels , whether it is contributing to your own small community, like He did, or contributing to the WordPress Community at large, the learnings, experience and Joy of voluntary work pay off rich personal dividends in terms of career. That is the story He would like to share with dear folks at WC Ahmedabad 🙂
Speaker Information
Nagesh is currently working as Happiness Engineer at Automattic, Nagesh started his WordPress journey as a hobbyist and freelancer, by building and tinkering with WordPress websites between 2008 and 2016.
Nagesh comes with a rather diverse career track-record. With a strong background in Banking & Finance, Nagesh has worked in the roles of Digital Marketing at Technology, as well as in Media houses. He has also served as a Media Planner with reputed agencies.
The interesting part about his story is that, despite his diverse background, Nagesh’s WordPress journey kickstarted from a unique vertical: by setting up and running a community website that he built, without having any prior knowledge of programming. He started it on Blogger, and, migrated it to self-hosted WordPress, sometime in 2009. This journey introduced him to a career in digital marketing, helped him learn to create beautiful websites, and eventually led him to Automattic!