Ashar Irfan

Lead Engineer
Lahore, Pakistan

Ashar is a Lead Engineer at WebDevStudios. He is the magician behind the curtain who makes WordPress websites work perfectly and ensures nothing is broken.

During his undergraduate studies, Ashar stumbled upon WordPress while developing a website. His love for WordPress grew when he joined a company as an intern to learn WordPress theme development. Over the past five years, he has worked with a couple of WordPress agencies to help them meet the goals of their clients. Ashar has also developed a number of custom WordPress themes and plugins during the process. He also contributes to WordPress core, organizes local community events, and learns and creates projects in new web technologies. He is also a big JavaScript and Node.js enthusiast.

While not on the job, Ashar likes to spend time with his family, go bowling, watching movies and TV shows, and going on road trips with his friends. He also loves trying out new restaurants.

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