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Ahmad Awais

Founder & CEO at Langbase

@mrahmadawais San Francisco joined Jan 2011

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    Bio

    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.

    Interests

    — Giving Back to the community (30% of my product time is spent to give back to my WP Community)
    — DevOps (Buiding automation scripts and playing around with server APIs & architecture)
    — End to end Product Developer (Full Stack, Electrical Eng + CS, Focused at WP and now with JS MVC frameworks)
    — User Experience Design (Spent 4 professional years as a designer)
    — Talk & Teaching WordPress (I love talking about WP, arranging meetups and speaking at conferences. That’s who I am)
    — Mentoring and investing in WordPress Startups (Fascinated with business, mentor to some, mentee to others, investor in three small-scale WP startups)

    WordPress Origin Story

    Rock-solid commitment to the WordPress software community, 100+ open source projects, 23,000+ dev-newsletter subscribers, 500,000+ WP plugin/theme downloads, and a status of regular WordPress core contributing developer has helped me become an open source thought-leader backed by 20+ Multinational companies.

    ► CORE DEVELOPER
    • Regular WordPress Core Contributor 10+ Major versions
    • Improved & fixed code, documentation on ~150 core tickets ~40 commits

    ► OPEN SOURCE CONTRIBUTIONS
    • Built 100+ Free and Open Source Software for the WordPress community
    • Contributions to WP community projects E.g. Gutenberg Blocks Editor, WP REST API, WooCommerce, EDD, default WordPress Themes i.e. TwentySixteen & TwentySeventeen, WP Customizer, etc.

    ► COMMAND LINE POWER USER/DEV
    • Developed 100+ command lines interface (CLI) dev-tools
    • Built automation for WordPress server backup, restore, image optimization
    • Created cPanel to DigitalOcean/EasyEngine Migration CLI — improved migration time by 80%

    ► FRONT END DEV:
    • Developed modern dev-tooling, boilerplates, & Zero Config JS starter kits
    • Built MERN Stack (MongoDB, Express, React, Node.js) + WP REST API apps
    • Developed WPGulp — most popular WordPress + Gulp configuration in the community
    • WPGulp improves front end development time by 20% via hot-loading, auto bundling, and image optim

    ► BACK END DEV:
    • LAMP/LEMP PHP OOP experience
    • Twig templating, built and extended WordPress APIs
    • Developed libraries to help WordPress developers write standard code with best practices E.g. snippet libraries for VSCode/Sublime and Oh My ZSH

    ► WEB OSS CONTRIBUTIONS:
    • Core contributions to code/docs, fix bugs, and security patches in a variety of community software like Bootstrap, Cobalt2 themes for VSC/Sublime/Slack/iTerm, TitanFramework, Timber, etc.

    ► DEV RELATIONS:
    • 100+ FOSS (Free & Open Source Software) projects
    • 3,700,00 Million views of answers on StackOverflow
    • ~5,000 Stargazers/Forks/Watching Devs on GitHub (Trending dev)

    Badges

    CODE
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    Core Contributor '15 Plugin Developer
    CONTENT
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    Documentation Contributor '17
    COMMUNITY
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    Meetup Organizer '18
    PRACTICE
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    Support Contributor '20 Support Team '20
    POLYGLOTS
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    Translation Contributor '15 Translation Editor '16

    Current Job

    Founder & CEO
    Present
    Langbase

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    Specializations

    evenly split across 3 teams · no team-attributable activity in the last 365 days

    Contributions

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    February 2023
    Feb 08 Wed · 01:30
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to PHP 8 Upgrade Fatal Error, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    2023/02/08 01:04:47 [error] 22978#22978: *499221 FastCGI sent in stderr: "PHP message: PHP Fatal error: Uncaught…
    Feb 08 Wed · 01:30
    Forums med
    Created a topic, PHP 8 Upgrade Fatal Error, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi there, thanks for the awesome plugin. Sadly, up…
    December 2020
    Dec 12 Sat · 13:18
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Application Passwords: Integration Guide, on the site Make WordPress Core:
    Forgot to tag you @georgestephanis (context: look for the best way to migrate to the…
    Dec 12 Sat · 13:17
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    Wrote a comment on the post Application Passwords: Integration Guide, on the site Make WordPress Core:
    Hi Georg, Thanks for sharing the summary. Can you tell what happens to people who…
    September 2020
    Sep 26 Sat · 13:10
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    Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: REST API Authentication / Application Passwords, on the site Make WordPress Core:
    Major +1 on this. It will be a welcomed improvement.
    April 2020
    Apr 18 Sat · 05:03
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    Wrote a comment on the post We’re applying to Season of Docs, on the site Make WordPress Documentation:
    👋howdy, Jon! Thanks for sharing this. Do you have an idea of the time commitment…
    Apr 08 Wed · 01:27
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    Wrote a comment on the post Feature Plugin Proposal: WP Consent API, on the site Make WordPress Core:
    This is great. Sadly way too intrusive and forced in the middle of the screen…
    Apr 03 Fri · 18:59
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post wp-env: Simple Local Environments for WordPress., on the site Make WordPress Core:
    This amazing. An idea like this has been stuck in my head for a while.…
    February 2020
    Feb 13 Thu · 15:38
    Forums med
    Created a topic, Redirects Contact page to /blank, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Been using this excellent plugin without any issues bu…
    November 2019
    Nov 28 Thu · 23:43
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post New CSS focus in Core, on the site Make WordPress Core:
    About time we update the CSS design of it all. Let's make it light and…

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