Profiles

Ahmad Awais is an award-winning open-source engineering leader, founder, and CEO of CommandCode.ai (Coding agent with continuous learning of your coding taste) f/k/a Langbase.com (AI Cloud). NASA Mars Ingenuity Helicopter mission code-contributor. Angel investor. Ex-VP of Developer Relations, Google Developers Advisory Board founding member, Node.js Community Committee Outreach Lead, Business Governance Board Member Linux Foundation & OpenAPI Initiative, WordPress Core Developer, and previously VP of Engineering at WGA. He has authored various open-source software tools used by millions of developers worldwide, like his Shades of Purple code theme (4M Dev Users) or projects like the corona-cli (10+ Billion Requests).

Awais loves to teach. Over 120,000 developers are learning from his courses , i.e., NodeCLI.com, VSCode.pro, and NextjsBeginner.com. He has spoken at 100+ tech conferences, including TEDx, ReactLive, Node Summit, Google Dev Summit, and Next.js Conf. Awais received the FOSS community leadership recognition as one of the first 12 featured GitHub Stars with a gold GitHub Stars Award. He is a member of the SmashingMagazine Experts Panel and a featured and published author at CSS-Tricks, Tuts+, Scotch.io, and SitePoint. You can mostly find him on Twitter @MrAhmadAwais, where he tweets his #OneDevMinute developer tips.

OPEN SOURCE LEADERSHIP:
· 4x Gold GitHub Stars Award recipient 8th out of 100 Million developed.
· Winner of the Front Line Heroes MongoDB Innovation Award.
· Listed #1 JavaScript Developer on GitHub Trending Developers.
· Built 200+ open-source projects used by millions of devs (incl. Google/Facebook Engineers).
· GitHub profile with tens of thousands of followers and stargazers: https://github.com/AhmadAwais

ELOQUENT SPEAKER:
· 100+ speaking engagements, including a TEDx Talk, Next.js Conf, Smashing Conf, React Conf.
· Master of Ceremonies at two conferences with thousands of developers in the audience.
· List of talks https://Awais.dev/talks

WEB COMMUNITY INFLUENCER:
· Lead community organizer for JavaScript and Cloud meetups (Country lead DigitalOcean).
· Sold over 34,336 copies of books and courses (VSCode.pro, NodeCLI.com, Writy.io).

20+ YEARS EXPERIENCE:
· Two exits, and one startup acquisition. Enterprise clients include Google, Audi-AG, Coca-Cola, BBDO Worldwide, Standard Chartered Bank, GSK (GlaxoSmithKline), Y- Combinator’s Plan9 Ideas Battle Winner/Incubatee, featured and published at several international blogs/mags, E.g., Forbes, SmashingMag, TorqueMag, SitePoint, Envato Tuts+ Code Instructor (100+ Articles), etc.

I am a senior Full Stack WordPress Developer, WP Core Contributor, Front-end Fanatic and an accidental writer. I love to write, talk, build, and share everything about WordPress. You can reach out to me at Twitter @MrAhmadAwais.