Ankit Panchal is a WordPress Core Contributor and indie product founder with over 13 years of experience in the WordPress ecosystem. Based in Pune, India, he develops commercial WordPress products, runs a free community platform, and contributes regularly to WordPress core.

As an active WordPress Core Contributor, Ankit has been credited in 14 consecutive WordPress releases, from version 5.4 through 7.0. His contributions span the Core, Plugins, WP-Cli, and Core AI teams.

Ankit is the founder of PluginStack.dev, a bundle of performance-first WordPress plugins serving over 50,000 active sites worldwide. His individual plugins on the WordPress.org directory have collectively crossed 2 million downloads.

In 2026, Ankit founded WPFolks (wpfolks.org), a free community platform for the global WordPress community that brings together developers, contributors, and WordPress professionals from across the ecosystem.

Ankit has attended over 30 WordCamps across three continents, including WordCamp Asia, WordCamp Europe, WordCamp US, WordCamp Nepal, and multiple WordCamps across India. He has been an active sponsor and contributor at several of these events, and maintains strong ties to the Pune and broader Indian WordPress community.

Ankit joins WordCamp US 2026 as part of the Web and Technology team. He is excited to give back to the community that has shaped his career over the last decade.

When he is not building WordPress products or contributing to core, Ankit mentors emerging developers and explores India by road.