Subrata Sarkar
OVERVIEW
- WordPress Expert
- Open Source Contributor
- Freelance Consultant
- Community Builder
- WordPress Official Mentor
- Speaker
- Trekker | Traveller
- Passionate Photographer
- Fitness Freak by choice
Professional Experience
Senior WordPress Engineer (Contract)
emfluence Digital Agency, Kansas City, USA | 2009 – 2025 (16 years)
- Skillset: WordPress, PHP, MySQL, Git, ECMAScript, Docker, Lando, Alexa Skill
- Delivered 30+ enterprise platforms
- Custom OOP themes/plugins serving millions of monthly sessions
- WCAG 2.2 compliance, security hardening, mission-critical troubleshooting
- Took leadership and decisive role in number of critical tight-timeline situations
- Developed 7 Alexa Skills for inhouse teams
Freelance Web Developer
Freelancer.com & Elance | 2006 – 2009 (3 years)
- Freelance Profile URL: https://www.freelancer.com/u/pricewatervw
- Skillset: C#.NET, ASP.NET Core, OOP, MSSQL, AngularJS, Vanila JavaScript, AJAX, CSS
- Rating: 4.9 / 5
- Reviews: 95% Positive
- Returning Customers: Above 30%
- Jobs completed: 50+
Freelance Desktop & Web Appication Developer
Personal Business Contacts | 2002 – 2005 (3 years)
- Enterprise Desktop Solutions
- Skillset: FoxPro, Visual Foxpro, Visual Basic, VB.NET, C#.NET, OOP, MS Access, MSSQL, JavaScript
- Reviews: 95% Positive
- Returning Customers: Above 30%
- Jobs completed: 50+
Community & Open Source Contribution
2016 – Persent
- Founder and Organizer: Kolkata WordPress Community (2017 – Present)
- WordCamp Organizer: WordCamp Asia 2026
- WordCamp Lead Organizer: Kolkata WordCamps 2019 and 2025
- Contribution to WordPress: Core, Plugin, Community Team, Meetup, WordCamp, Photo, TV
- Official Mentor: WordPress Campus Connect, WordPress Credits
- Co-mentored: WordCamp Surat, 2025 (under Aditya Kane, Pune)
- Editor and Translatior: Polyglots
- Speaker: WordCamp Kolkata 2025, WordPress Campus Connect Kolkata 2026
- Recipient of Yoast Care Fund, 2025 for Global Open Source Excellence
- Invited as Senior Jury member in Smart Bengal Hackathon, 2025
- Opened Students’ Club in RCC Institute of Information Technology, Kolkata
- Mediated the official MoU signing process between RCCIIT Kolkata and WordPress Foundation
- Increasing growth, interaction, networking and learning opportunity in and outside the community
- Organized two small Himalayan Trek under Youth Adventure Sports activity
- Organized Fitness Awarness Camp in 2024 and 2025 for prople over 30
Technical Expertise
Operating System
- Ubuntu
- Linux Mint
- Red Hat Linux
- Windows Server
- MS DOS (since 5.0)
WordPress Ecosystem
- Custom Theme and Plugin (OOP)
- Gutenberg Blocks and REST API
- Performance (Caching, Database)
- Security Best Practices
- WCAG 2.2 Compliance
Core Technologies
- MySQL, MariaDB
- JavaScript ES6+
- Git, Composer, NPM, Docker, Lando
Legacy Mastery
- VBScript
- Visual Basic 6, Visual FoxPro
- MSSQL Server
- ASP.NET, C#.NET, ASP.NET Core
- Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator
Featured Projects
emfluence Digital Agency
Open Source Repository
Personal Attributes
Leadership | Motivator | Decisive | Problem Solver | Dependable | Honest | Persistent | Dedicated
Tools and Platforms
Git | GitHub | Docker | Lando | Composer | NPM | WP CLI | PHP CLI | PHPUnit | Grant & Gulp | SASS | LESS