Author Archives: Hari Shanker R

About Hari Shanker R

I am a Community Program Manager (formerly known as "Super Deputy") on the Make/WordPress Community Team, where my focus is on making the WordPress Community the best it can be, through events and other community-led efforts. I lead the Contributor Working Group of WordPress, where we built, and successfully ran three editions of the Contributor Mentorship Program, which resulted in a net total of 150 active contributors for WordPress. I am also involved in other contributor initiatives such as the WordPress Contributor Health Dashboard project. WordPress is one of the biggest passions in my life, and I strongly believe that open source tech and the open web have the potential to make the world a better place. I have had a rather diverse career with significant experience in the domains of Retail Banking, Print & Web Journalism, Web Development, Entrepreneurship, Event Management, Professional Blogging, and Education. Outside of work, I enjoy writing (blogging) as a hobby, and I'm a compulsive bibliophile. I'm also a happily married pet parent to three cats. NOTE: My contributions to WordPress were fully sponsored from 2020-2024, I'm currently a 100% self-sponsored, volunteer contributor.