Mohammed Kateregga (@mohkatz) – WordPress user profile

Bio

Full Stack, Mobile and Web App developer, Business and Data analyst and Blockchain educator. Community leader based in Jinja. Tech entrepreneur and open source tech evangelist, active Rotarian and love volunteering.

WordPress Developer and WordPress Jinja Meetup Community Co-organizer 2020/2021 to date and WordCamp Jinja co-organizer 2022-date.

Member of The Rotary Club of Jinja City, Internet Society Uganda Chapter, Omdena AI, ICTAU, GDG, and avid community founder, and lead. IT and Business development specialist for many years. Professional background in Accountancy, Web and App Development, FinTech, Business Development as well as professional qualifications/certifications and very many years of experience in tech, mainly in Cloud, DevOps, AI, Security, Networking and Blockchain. Serial Tech Entrepreneur. Founder and co-founder and investor in many business startup enterprises in Uganda with a bias towards social impact through tech and innovation.

WordPress Origin Story

Pertaining to WordPress, I am a WordPress Developer, Contributor as well and Community co-organizer, I have personally used and developed/designed very many websites, both personally and professionally using WordPress since 2011/12, and for the past four years served in community WordPress Jinja Meetup Community co-lead and co-organizer and occasionally as a contributor as well. Look forward to growing our WordPress community in Eastern Uganda and Jinja further.

WordPress Developer, Contributor and WordPress Jinja Meetup Community Co-organizer 2020/2021 to date and WordCamp Jinja co-organizer 2022-date.

I helped start and organize the first Inaugural WordPress Jinja Meetup, Website Charity Hackathon and served as Co-lead Organizer of the Hackathon together with Rogers Mukalele for the event in 2021.
WordCamp Jinja 2022 Co-organizer, WordCamp Jinja 2023 Contributor day and Hackathon Team Lead, WordCamp Jinja 2024 Lead Organizer
WordCamp Nairobi 2024 Organizing team Volunteer, Speaker Department.
Uganda Websites Competition 2024 volunteered and assisted the event helped specifically Procurement, design and delivery of official WordPress Swag and helped with Public Relations and sharing the event under WordPress Jinja Meetup Socials on WhatsApp/X and other social media channels.
WordCamp Jinja 2025 Lead Organizer
WordCamp Masaka 2025 Co-organizer (Volunteer and Speaker Department)
WordPress Accessibilty Day 2025 Volunteer.
WordPress Campus Connect Jinja 2025 Lead Organizer (Inaugural event on the African Continent)

Team Lead, WordPress for Everyone skilling and capacity building initiative and our budding AfroPressers global community, and also actively part of growing our WPAfrica Community.

I contribute to various teams and I am passionate about community, inclusion, localization, diversity, open source and decentralized technologies.

I regularly volunteer, support and speak at various WordCamps and/or WordPress Meetups locally in my locale as well as other tech conferences.

Contributions

Mohammed Kateregga contributes 20 hours per week to the following teams: Accessibility, Community, Core, Core AI, Core Performance, Hosting, Marketing, Openverse, Photos, Playground, Polyglots, and Test.

Member Since: April 21st, 2021
Location: Jinja, Uganda
Website: xerusmediagroup.com
GitHub: mohkatz
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Contribution History

Core Contributor
Hosting Contributor
Meetup Organizer
Openverse Contributor
Photo Contributor
Plugin Developer
Translation Contributor
Translation Editor
WordCamp Organizer
WordCamp Speaker
WordCamp Volunteer

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Plugins
Photos
Courses
Translations

Wrote a comment on the post Community Team Rep Nominations for 2026, on the site Make WordPress Community:
Thank you Carol for the nomination and call to service, unfortunately I am currently still…
1 week ago
Joined the organizing team for WordCamp Slovenia
1 month ago
Wrote a new post, Training Team Meeting Recap – 9th Dec 2025, on the site Make WordPress Training:
This meeting followed this meeting agenda in GitHub. You can see conversations from the meeting in…
1 month ago
Wrote a comment on the post Training Team – Call for Admin Team Members, on the site Make WordPress Training:
Awesome initiative @rjekic, @devmuhib and rest of our training team. As I had earlier shared…
1 month ago
Joined the organizing team for WordCamp Europe 2026
2 months ago
Completed the course WordPress Credits Mentor’s Course on learn.wordpress.org
2 months ago
Wrote a new post, Test, on the site WordCamp Europe 2026 Testing Site:
Test
2 months ago
Translated 1 string on translate.wordpress.org.
2 months ago
Suggested 2 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
2 months ago
Received props from @akshayar in Slack:
Props to @adityab98, @b1ink0, @amitbhosale, @Ankit K Gupta, @anveshika, @azharderaiya, @Benjamin_Zekavica, @enaanfarhan, @ellatrix, @abduremon, @faisalahammad,…
3 months ago
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Nairobi 2025
3 months ago
Wrote a new post, Call for Volunteers, on the site WordPress Campus Connect Jinja 2025
4 months ago
Wrote a new post, Call for Sponsors, on the site WordPress Campus Connect Jinja 2025:
Are you looking for a way to support the WordPress community and showcase your brand,…
4 months ago
Joined the organizing team for WordPress Campus Connect Jinja, Eastern Region, Uganda 2025
4 months ago
Wrote a new post, Welcome to WordPress Campus Connect Jinja, Eastern Region, Uganda 2025, on the site WordPress Campus Connect Jinja, Eastern Region, Uganda 2025:
Organizers note: Please update the portions with red text. We're happy to announce that WordCamp…
4 months ago
Translated 94 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
5 months ago
Suggested 16 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
5 months ago
Suggested 253 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
5 months ago
Translated 105 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
5 months ago
Reviewed 87 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
5 months ago
Reviewed 9 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
5 months ago
Suggested 34 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
5 months ago
Translated 219 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
5 months ago
Reviewed 648 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
5 months ago
Suggested 205 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
5 months ago
Committed [3341377] to Plugins SVN:
Initial commit and release of Lightning Simple Social Share Plugin ...
5 months ago
Suggested 84 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
6 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Roadmap to 6.9, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Excited to see AI integration taking shape more cohesively with the PHP AI Client SDK…
6 months ago
Created a topic, Simple and effective tool for quick plugin checks, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Simple and effective plugin check tool, there is room …
6 months ago
Suggested 60 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
6 months ago
Suggested 24 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
6 months ago
Completed the course Using the WordPress Data Layer on learn.wordpress.org
6 months ago
Completed the course Intermediate Theme Developer on learn.wordpress.org
6 months ago
Suggested 104 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
6 months ago
Created a topic, Love it. Simple, minimalist and easy to use., on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Love it. Simple, minimalist and easy to use. Looking f…
6 months ago
Suggested 2 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
6 months ago
Completed the course Basic principles of conflict resolution on learn.wordpress.org
6 months ago
Completed the course Writing in the WordPress voice on learn.wordpress.org
6 months ago
Is the 3rd person to arrive at WordCamp Masaka 2025
6 months ago
Translated 1 string on translate.wordpress.org.
7 months ago
Suggested 4 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
7 months ago
Suggested 4 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
7 months ago
Wrote a new post, WordCamp Jinja 2025 Recap: An impactful 2 days of learning, diverse speakers, hands-on workshops, contributions, charity website hackathon, and celebration of WordPress on the Nile, on the site WordCamp Central:
From May 24th to 25th, 2025, we had the fourth annual WordCamp Jinja at the…
8 months ago
Wrote a new post, WordCamp Jinja 2025 Recap: An impactful 2 days of learning, diverse speakers, educational workshops, contributions, website hackathon, and celebration of WordPress on the Nile, on the site WordCamp Jinja 2025:
From May 24th to 25th, 2025, we had the fourth annual WordCamp Jinja at the…
8 months ago
Is the 1st person to arrive at WordCamp Jinja 2025
8 months ago