Rakesh Lawaju is a web enthusiast, programmer, trainer, and entrepreneur based in Nepal who has been in the web field since 2008. He is the Founder and CEO of One Loop Studio Pvt. Ltd and was the co-founder and CTO of WEN Solutions. He had worked as the project lead for the WP Travel plugin and other multiple plugins and themes. He is now leading the Gutenberg plugin called Gutenify.com and also working as a consultant for numerous international companies.
Rakesh has also worked for internationally renowned companies like 1E, WPMU DEV, and Graph Paper Press. In those companies, he has handled bigger projects, plugins, and themes.
He was on the organizing team of WordCamp Kathmandu in 2016, 2017, and 2018, and WordCamp Nepal in 2022 and 2024. During the release of WordPress 4.4 “Clifford”, he contributed to the WordPress core and contributed to translating WordPress into Nepali. He was a speaker at WordCamp Nepal 2015 and WordCamp Kathmandu 2019 and 2023. He is a frequent speaker at WordPress meetups. He has been an instructor for web development on PHP and WordPress development-related topics.
He has always been motivated to share the knowledge he gains and contribute to the growth and development of WordPress.