Most valuable persons

A nopCommerce MVP (Most Valuable Person) is an exceptional, independent community leader who shares passion, technical expertise, and knowledge with others, and who represents the spirit of the community. These individuals actively support others on our forums, contribute code, assist with the product localization, write helpful blog posts, organize community events, share best practices and much more!

Our MVP Award is the way to recognize the most active community members. Each year, at our annual conference nopCommerce Days, we will award MVPs of the past year.

Benefits of being an MVP

  • .Free participation in nopCommerce Days, our annual conference
  • .Recognition of achievements at nopCommerce Days
  • .Recognition on the nopCommerce official website
  • .Invitations to speaking opportunities at nopCommerce Days
  • .Official developer certification for free

What does it take to become an MVP

There are many ways to demonstrate your enthusiasm and become an MVP. Some main activities include:

  • . Active participation in nopCommerce forum discussions, responding to users’ questions
  • . Code contribution
  • . Product and community localization, such as creation of local community sites, organization of community meetups
  • . Improve our documentation
  • . Official documentation translation: if our documentation is not yet translated into your native language, you’re very welcome to help with it. Your name or your company's name and official URL will be placed in the footer of the translated documentation portal (home page). This portal has about 12,000 unique visitors each month, so it would be a great promotional source for you
  • . Creation and sharing valuable content through blogs and social networks
  • . Speaking about nopCommerce at conferences and different professional events
  • . Organization of educational webinars
  • . Development of plugins and themes
  • . Creation of education materials, e.g. recording podcasts and screencasts, writing books
  • . Other forms of nopCommerce evangelism, such as support and promotion on third-party sites (e.g. StackOverflow, Quora, etc.), training services, getting in touch with local influencers, etc.

An MVP Selection Process Details

We’ll be rewarding new MVPs each year at our annual conference nopCommerce Days. The selection will be done a month prior to the event and will be based on evaluation of the previous year's contributions to the nopCommerce community.

Our current MVPs

Eduardo Adame

Eduardo Adame

Location: Mexico City

Forum username: Tecnofin

URL: http://www.tecnofin.com/

Eduardo has more than 30 years of experience providing services in e-Commerce and e-Banking. He is founder and CEO of Tecnofín which has developed over 300 web stores in Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Peru and the USA.

Dennis

Dennis

Location: New York, USA

Forum username: New York

URL: http://www.noptools.com/

Owner of nopTools, where you will find leading edge extensions and productivity tools for nopCommerce.

Andrew Macdonald

Andrew Macdonald

Location: Sydney, Australia

Forum username: Yidna

Andrew started writing code in the early 1980’s. Back then we were using Microsoft ‘C’ on XT PC’s and Digital MicroVAX’s to develop realtime process control systems for heavy industry. Over the last 9 years I have been using nopCommerce to develop a range of custom website solutions for the entertainment industry and community not for profit organisations.

MD Rashed Khan Menon

MD Rashed Khan Menon

Location: Bangladesh

Forum username: Rashed Khan

Rashed is .Net enthusiastic and passionate about learning .Net technologies. He has been working at nopStation since 2020, which is top gold solution partner of nopCommerce. He started his professional career in 2018 at NybSys as a full-stack developer.

Atul Rungta

Atul Rungta

Location: India

Forum username: nopAdvance.com

URL: https://www.nopadvance.com/

Atul is one of founders and owner at NopAdvance.com. He is a workaholic guy with around 9+ years of expertise in Software Development, Business Development, Research and Consulting. Being passionate in software programming he is also a big nopCommerce fan. He strongly believes in "Learn and Grow" and his goal is to establish nopAdvance as leading nopCommerce solution partner.

Alex Tretyakov

Alex Tretyakov

Location: Ternopil, Ukraine

Forum username: foxnetsoft

URL: https://www.foxnetsoft.com/

Alex develops high loaded and fault-tolerant systems of different levels for the last 20 years. He is an architect, business analytic and chief developer of ERP system for a large trading company in Ukraine.

Ted Phillips

Ted Phillips

Location: Austin, Texas

Forum username: motoTed

URL: https://tedsolves.com/

Ted offers over 15 years expertise in e-commerce, general IT, and supply chain solutions. As owner of TedSolves.com, he also specializes in nopCommerce customization and plugin development.

Craig Richards

Craig Richards

Location: United Kingdom

Forum username: untiedshoes

URL: https://www.untiedshoes.co.uk/

I started out as a freelance developer way back in 1998, progressing through classic ASP to asp.net. For over 23 years, I've been providing quality, creative, award-winning digital solutions for all business sizes, from start-up companies to some of the largest high-street brands around. I've worked with the nopCommerce platform since v2.6, and I believe I was the first to develop a fully responsive version of nopCommerce, and also the first to have a fully fledged, fully responsive multi-store, running a total of 15 sites from a single installation.

Lam Woon Cherk

Lam Woon Cherk

Location: Kluang, Johor, Malaysia

Forum username: wooncherk

URL: http://panorazzi.com/

Owner of panoRazzi, a Malaysian web development firm. Also blogs about nopCommerce at Pro nopCommerce.

Milen Kovachev

Milen Kovachev

Location: Sofia, Bulgaria

Forum username: Nop-Templates.com

URL: http://www.nop-templates.com/meettheteam

As one of the founders of Nop-Templates.com, Milen's main role has been to establish the company as the leading vendor of nopCommerce themes and plugins.

Andy McKenna

Andy McKenna

Location: Grand Rapids, MI USA

Forum username: AndyMcKenna

URL: http://bitshiftweb.com/

I'm a web developer in the manufacturing industry. I also enjoy ice hockey and video games.

John Baluka

John Baluka

Location: St. Louis, Missouri

Forum username: john_baluka

URL: http://www.johnbaluka.com/

John is an independent developer with over 25 years of experience. John tends to focus on projects that use nopCommerce, and he also uses nopCommerce as a reference architecture for new developers. John will give a price for a project, not an hourly rate, along with a bug-free guarantee.

Raju Paladiya

Raju Paladiya

Location: Surat, India

Forum username: nopCypher

Paladiya has more than 5 years of experience in working with top nopCommerce Partner Companies and providing services in e-Commerce. He has developed multiple eCommerce web application and API using ASP.NET CORE, ASP.NET, MVC5, and nopCommerce. He is working dedicated in nopCommerce from last 4 years and hold a good knowledge and Certifications. He is love to contribute in nopCommerce Community. Currently, he is working as a consultant and freelancer.

Smiten Kalathiya

Smiten Kalathiya

Location: Surat, India

Forum username: smi10

Smiten is an independent developer with more than 3 years of experience with Microsoft technologies. He is working with top notch nopCommerce Partner Companies and furnish best services. He love to do customization with nopCommerce also, he has vast experience with developing nopCommerce Customization, Upgrade, Plugins, Widgets Themes etc.. Moreover, He has a good knowledge of ASP.NET CORE, ASP.NET MVC, ANGULAR, REACT, VUE JS, IONIC and nopCommerce.

Bruce Leggett

Bruce Leggett

Location: United States

Forum username: breakskater

URL: http://www.SkateMOB.com/

Bruce Leggett is a successful entrepreneur with a passion for eCommerce, enterprise, and social network application development.

Md. Minul Islam Sohel

Md. Minul Islam Sohel

Location: Bangladesh

Forum username: sohel

URL: http://nop-station.com/

He is a Software Engineer at BrainStation-23 Ltd, skilled in .NET technologies, developed multiple eCommerce web applications and migrated other platforms into nopCommerce. He is a big nopCommerce fan. This is all about him, looking forward to update himself with the latest updating technologies smile emoticon. Sometime funny-Sometime serious mood keeps changing, but attitude remains same.

Blake Smith

Blake Smith

Location: Idaho Falls, USA

Forum username: SilhouetteBS

Owner of Silhouette Web Solutions. Specialize in eCommerce, site design & development, mobile sites, inbound marketing, and local SEO.

Krunal Jariwala

Krunal Jariwala

Location: India

Forum username: nopAccelerate.com

URL: http://www.nopaccelerate.com/

Founder of Xcellence-IT, specializing in nopCommerce customization and plugin development. He has an active interest in strategic IT consulting, website performance & conversion optimization, eCommerce and cloud technologies.

Md. Abu Sina

Md. Abu Sina

Location: Dhaka, Bangladesh

Forum username: sina.islam

I am senior software engineer and lead engineer of BrainStation-23. I have been working for Microsoft Technologies from 2012. I started my nopCommerce journey from 2015. From then I got a lot of chance to develop plugin and implement client's out of box requirements in nopCommerce. I always try to contribute for the nopCommerce forum. I learn a lot from nopCommerce forum. If anybody want to learn standard coding nopCommerce is the best fit.

Jaber Kibria

Jaber Kibria

Location: Bangladesh

Forum username: mhsjaber

Jaber Kibria is a Software Engineer of Brain Station-23. He has been developing applications using .NET technologies since 2016. Till now he has developed lot of nopCommerce plugins and customized features based on client's requirements. He is also experienced in business intelligence integration into nopCommerce.

Paul Knopf

Paul Knopf

Location: Bradenton, FL, USA

Forum username: theonlylawislove

Paul, 22, is a freelance web developer (hire me?) who has been developing since he could remember (html and homestead/geocities, lol). He has contributed to many open-source projects including n2cms and dashcommerce (before nopcommerce became what it is today).

Peter Mitchell

Peter Mitchell

Location: Newcastle, UK

Forum username: petemitch

Peter Mitchell is full-time web developer with an interest in eCommerce and a passion for learning new technologies. He likes nopCommerce, nice food and good beer (but not necessarily in that order).

Shahdat Hosain

Shahdat Hosain

Location: Bangladesh

Forum username: shahdat45ict

Senior Software Engineer, skilled in .NET technologies, developed multiple eCommerce web applications. Experienced in ERP integration, other platforms migration into nopCommerce.

Olga Yegorov

Olga Yegorov

Location: Israel, Holon

Forum username: olga_zov

URL: http://www.credo.co.il/

Founder of “Credo Technologies”, a pioneer in the nopCommerce technology. Today Credo is on top of the leading companies in the development of modules and web sites based NopCommerce.

Lavish Kumar

Lavish Kumar

Location: New York, USA

Forum username: L.K

URL: http://www.strivingprogrammers.com/

By profession, he is a software programmer / web developer, graphic designer & DBA. He is passionate about technology and electronic gadgets. He enjoys writing tech articles and developing web applications.

Hayden Smith

Hayden Smith

Location: Peebles , Scotland

Forum username: haydie

URL: http://www.tstf.co.uk

I'm a serial workaholic - Web Developer, Construction Professional (c'mon, who wants to spend all day in front of a computer ? ) graphic designer, an avid gardener and a dad. Love mountain biking and walking in the Scottish hills and mountains especially around my home town . Oh, and I'm a long time lover of nop!

Anik Saha

Anik Saha

Location: Bangladesh

Forum username: anik1991

URL: http://nop-station.com/

I started my career as Mobile Application Developer in 2013. Till then I have worked on different technologies. Now working on the Asp.net Mvc5 application. I have developed multiple eCommerce web application and API using Asp.net Mvc5, Wep Api 2 and nopCommerce. I am a big fan of nopCommerce. I always try to learn new technologies. Currently I am working in BrainStation-23 and working with nopCommerce Mobile and Web Team.

Đỗ Anh Tuấn

Đỗ Anh Tuấn

Location: Nội, Việt Nam

Forum username: ima9ines

URL: http://www.ima9ines.com/

I'm a front-end web developer. I like to work with CMS and eCommerce.

Hezy Ziv

Hezy Ziv

Location: Tel Aviv, Israel

Forum username: hezyz

Day job: Attorney, started programming 15 years ago as a hobby and can't stop since then. Own several commercial websites.

Timothy

Timothy

Location: Virginia, United States

Forum username: Tim2376

Timothy is an engineering student at the University of Virginia who enjoys web design and development. He is an entrepreneur and a big Nopcommerce fan.

Ron Palmer

Ron Palmer

Location: Devon, United Kingdom

Forum username: XtremeCommerce

URL: https://www.nopresponsive.com

I am an entrepreneur with a passion for Ecommerce and work on nopCommerce full time helping businesses get started online, also providing Bootstrap Themes and Plugins for the nopCommerce community, along with being a Foster Carer helping less fortunate children find their way in life.

Vipul Dumaniya

Vipul Dumaniya

Location: India

Forum username: vipul.dumaniya

URL: http://www.satyanamsoft.com/

I am the owner of Satyanam Info Solutions , I have more the 4 years of experience only on NopCommerce based projects. We have a team for more than 15 developers working only on Nop based projects from last 4 years.

Tomáš Horváth

Tomáš Horváth

Location: Czech Republic

Forum username: tomashorvath

Tomas is a developer and consultant from Czech Republic. He is interested in .NET and agile development techniques. He is actively write about Nopcommerce and try to help to Czech community. Primarily, He try to mediate integration between nopCommerce and common Czech E-Commerce services.

Ben Foster

Ben Foster

Location: UK

Forum username: retroviz

Ben has been developing applications on the .net platform for a number of years. He runs Retroviz, a UK based development company, specializing in web based solutions, particularly eCommerce. Ben is a technology enthusiast and promoter of lean development practices. When he's not working he's probably blogging.