Behind The Scenes
Growing Pains
Over the past few years our business has outgrown what I can handle by myself. With a young family now, Tashia spends much less time helping with the business. And the ideas never stop, and our excitement keeps growing for the future of our work and the Divi Community. Current product updates, support, and free weekly tutorials are my top priority, along with an epic secret project we are working on now. I spend far too many hours each week creating free tutorials, answering support emails, replying to comments, creating products and resources, and managing new product development.
Searching For Help
A few months ago I finally made the decision to hire an assistant. I began asking for help and assigning small tasks to several people with the intention of finding a good fit. Last year, Hemant answered a unique opportunity to help with some Divi related writing and coding work, and I was impressed by his unique combination of skills. We have continued to work together ever since, and a few months ago we made it official.
Hemant’s Role
Hemant has his hand in just about everything that I do now, from writing tutorials, writing documentation for our products, answering support questions, replying to comments on the blog, brainstorming ideas, and working on client projects. It seems he completes any task as soon as I assign it to him. Hemant has worked for Elegant Themes, and I consider him a Divi specialist, so he fits in quite well here. He is an excellent frontend developer, and is doing fantastic learning more backend programming skills. (Soon I am going to showcase some of his work on a website we created for our family, and you will see what I mean about his skills!) He does a great job at writing both words and code. We schedule our blog post tutorials/videos in advance, and just recently some of the tutorials that I have published have been made possible because of his contributions. Hemant is super kind and helpful in answering support questions, and always has a solution. Many of you have already received helpful replies to your blog post comments. You will also start to see him reply to your product support messages more as he becomes comfortable with our products and will also manage support in my absence.
Credit Where Credit Is Due
Hemant is now a big part of the team behind the scenes, but the work Hemant does for me and Pee-Aye Creative goes mostly unnoticed in the background. I consider that unfortunate, so I asked him if he would be willing to share and answer a few questions so you could get to know him a little, and he humbly agreed. So without rambling too much more, I need to get to the real reason for this post! Meet Hemant, our awesome new team member who can do pretty much anything and everything! Please give him a warm welcome in the comment section! 🙂
Meet Hemant Gaba
What can you tell us about yourself?
My name is Hemant Gaba. I currently introduce myself as a WordPress Developer and a PHP enthusiast. I am also a content writer and have a technical support background as well. Before getting into WordPress and Divi I used to work on custom made websites with the languages like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, PHP, and MySQL. I have made and been a part of several custom websites, custom WordPress websites, WordPress eCommerce websites, and Divi Builder websites.
What types of things do you love to do?
I love to create new things, love to do things that teach me and make me better in what I am doing. I love to work on the things that give me an opportunity to learn more. Other than that I love listening to music and playing chess. 🙂
How did you discover WordPress and Divi and how long ago was that?
It’s been around 5 years that I am working around the Divi environment now. One day I was searching for different Page Builders and that’s how I came to know about Elegant Themes and Divi.
Why did you join Pee-Aye Creative and what are your goals?
I love to work on things that give me opportunity to learn more, so when I saw the diversity in the tasks that were offered to me, making up my mind to sign up for Pee-Aye Creative was as easy as a pie. My goal here is to create products around Divi that help thousands of people around the globe.
Welcome, Hemant! You are working with the best “Divi Teacher” in the business.
Hi Carl
Yes, definitely and I am proud of that too. 🙂
Welcome! I’m excited because I love the tutorials here! So helpful!
Hi Janis
It’s glad to hear that you love our tutorials and we’ll make sure to keep things the same in the future. 🙂
Welcome. You are in a good place.
Hi Asit
Thank you for the comment and definitely, this place surpasses all my expectations in a positive way 🙂
Hi Hemant,
this is really good news! Ím happy to hear that Nelson finally found such a capable person to help him keeping up that excellent work and friendliness special to PeeAyeCreative. Big fat cheers and welcome!
Hi Malte
Thank you for your words and will definitely try to maintain the friendly and innovative environment created by Nelson. 🙂
Welcome to the team Hemant! Excited to see what Pee Aye Creative has in store with your added help 🙂
Hi Melissa
Thank you for the warm welcome and please keep your excitement high because there is a lot coming up. 🙂
Welcome Hemant!
I look forward to some great things at PAC in the coming months and years.
Hi Robert
Thank you for the gesture and will definitely meet your expectations. 🙂
Welcome, Hemant!
Hi Vera
Thank you for your comment. 🙂
Welocme Hemant!
Hi Ron
Thank you. 🙂
Hi Hemant,
Happy to see you guys are working so hard and helping so many learners.
Looking forward to see more and more content!
Cheers!
Hi Shree,
Thank you for the great gesture. A lot of amazing things are on the way so say tuned. 🙂