Our next speaker is Himash Tehan, a software developer from Colombo with over three years of experience designing and developing mobile apps. Himash’s topic is using “Using WordPress as a Mobile Backend”.

Himash has developed mobile apps using both native and hybrid mobile technologies for various domains i.e. airlines, sales and hospitality.

WordPress is a great choice to use as the backend technology for a wide variety apps, be it a weather app, or a CRM app. You will be amazed at the functionalities that come out of the box — like media management, user management and a sophisticated templating engine. What’s more, there are amazing plugins available in the public repository to choose from, and many of them are REST API enabled too!

With Himash bringing his knowledge and experience on this subject to the event, you should be able to rapidly build your next mobile app powered by a WordPress backend!