Episode 142 – C. Shakhawat Sultan

Introducing C. Shakhawat Sultan

C. Shakhawat Sultan is the business development manager at CodeRex. He works hand in hand with the developers and the marketing team to create useful plugins. He is passionate about WordPress and loves to contribute to the community.

Show Notes

Twitter | SultanRoyal1

LinkedIn | C-S-Sultan-Royal

Facebook | CodeRexCo, RexTheme

Websites | CodeRex, RexTheme

Walk to WordCamp Europe

Preferred Pronouns | He/Him

Episode Transcript

Tara: This is Hallway Chats, where we meet people who use WordPress.

Liam: We ask questions and our guests share their stories, ideas, and perspectives.

Tara: And now the conversation begins. This is Episode 142.

Tara: Welcome to Hallway Chats. I’m Tara Claeys.

Liam: And I’m Liam Dempsey. Today we’re joined by C. Shakhawat Sultan. Shakhawat is the business development manager at CodeRex. He works hand in hand with the developers and the marketing team to create useful plugins. He is passionate about WordPress and loves to contribute to the community. Welcome, Sultan. Thanks for joining us.

Shakhawat: Thank you, Liam. And Hi, Tara. Nice to be joining you, too.

Tara: Thanks for being here today. We’re really glad that you’re here. I know it’s late where you are, so we’re grateful for you staying up or waking up to be with us.

Shakhawat: I’m excited to talk with you guys.

Tara: Oh, we’re excited too. Thanks. Would you tell us a little bit more about yourself?

Shakhawat: Yeah, sure. I’m Sultan, a business development manager at CodeRex, and I work as a product manager at RexTheme which is a sister concern of CodeRex. So right now I’m in charge of developing plugins in my company and helping out my marketing team and developers to interact properly so that plugin development can be done properly. Besides that, I just completed my graduations. And not really that old I would like to think.

Tara: Do you want to tell us how old you are?

Shakhawat: I’m 27 right now. That’s a great age.

Liam: That is not as old as I am.

Tara: For our listeners, where are you located?

Shakhawat: Right now I’m talking with you from Dhaka, Bangladesh. This is where I was born. My whole life I grew up here. So that’s what I’m talking from.

Tara: Great.

Liam: And it’s very late where you are, so thank you very much for joining us and accommodating our little show to be so pleasant. Tara and I are in early afternoon. What are you? About one in the morning now?

Shakhawat: It’s 12:30 a.m. right now.

Tara: Okay. Great. So tell us a little bit about how you got started in computer stuck, WordPress, all of the above.

Shakhawat: To be honest, this industry is pretty new for me. In WordPress, I am only here for about two and a half years. Before that, I used to be part of international call centers. In fact, we used to be the guys that used to call you guys to cell phone plants and stuff like that. That’s what I was part of. Then, all of a sudden, I decided to change the industry as that cannot be taken as a career. I wanted a career that had a future. So I had to switch industries.