things i’m proud of, I believe, and some more!

things i’m proud of#

• founding langbase, creating command.new, inventing pipes (og mcp!)
• incredible investors: github’s founder, apple’s cfo & 30+ tech leaders
• hiring a phenomenal founding x cracked team (100hrs/week!)
• nasa mars helicopter code contributor (my code is on mars!)
• one of 8 developers (out of 100M+) with 5x gold github stars award
• built rapid devrel from $0 to $272M funding to $1B valuation
• got Meta (facebook) to open source and MIT license React
• built 300+ open source projects used by millions
• created shades of purple theme (5M+ developers using it)
• built world’s largest (91M+ dev) api developer community at rapid
• taught 100K+ developers through courses & 100+ conference talks
• 6x google developers expert & 3x microsoft mvp
• smol early angel investor in resend, gumroad & others
• married to my best friend maedah batool
• served 10 billion+ covid queries with corona-cli
  when the world needed it

things i believe#

purple > all other colors

• your brain literally invents purple when you see it
• great tools should spark joy (shades of purple)
• purple is genius, fight me

ship code that flies (literally)

• my code is on mars, what’s your excuse?
• ship fast > what can we ship by EOW?
• version 0.0.1 beats version never

developers are creators, not just coders

• high agency over dependency
• your side projects can change the world
• documentation is a love letter to future self

open source is a superpower

• give first, receive later
• your code can outlive you
• community > competition
• my pkgs prove it: 50M+ downloads/yr

automation > repetition

• if you do it twice, script it
• cli tools should make you smile
• good dx multiplies developer happiness

teaching scales impact

• genetic bug for teaching (grandparents & parents are teachers)
• 100K+ students & 100+ talks prove teaching compounds
• when developers win, we all win

ai is the new electricity

• building infrastructure for billions of ai agent runs
• simple primitives > bloated frameworks
• prompt. sip. ship.

faith grounds everything

• grateful (alhamdulillah!) to one Allah for everything
• risk is directly proportional to rizq (provision)
• giving back is not optional, it’s essential
• success without giving back is incomplete

currently building#

• langbase.com – serverless ai cloud for agents with memory & tools (processing billions of tokens daily, 1B+ agent runs monthly)
• command.new – vibe-code any ai agent, your on-demand ai engineer
• a secret project, i’ll share on 𝕏 pretty soon (had to do it!)

quick facts#

• started coding when web was just tables & spacer gifs
• never used comic sans in a marquee tag (i have standards)
• satya nadella said “what an awesome example” (mom’s proud)
• react, node, wordpress core developer (the web purist)
• making purple the official color of good code
• investing in founders who ship fast (DMs open!)
• based in san francisco bay area
• can’t say no to interesting problems
• share what i know kind of a guy

find me#

𝕏 (twitter) ·
github ·
linkedin ·
youtube ·
email

want to work together? building something cool? just want to argue about why purple is the best color? dm me on 𝕏 or send an email.

deeper dive#

click any of these to open. or read the full /about page.

p.s. — yes, you made it to the end. you absolute legend.