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Ahmad Awais
Ahmad Awais
👂 psst … “What an awesome example for developers” said Satya Nadella CEO of Microsoft about Ahmad Awais in his 2021 keynote at MSInspire. Context: Open source work and a small contribution by Awais to NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter mission.
Ahmad Awais is an award-winning open-source engineer, Vice President of Developer Relations at RapidAPI, Google Developers Expert Dev Advocate, Node.js Community Committee Outreach Lead, BGB Member Linux Foundation & OpenAPI Initiative, WordPress Core Dev, and ex 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 or projects like the corona-cli. Awais contributed code to NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter mission.
Awais loves to teach. Over 20,000 developers are learning from his courses, i.e., NodeCLI.com, VSCode.pro, NextjsBeginner.com. He has spoken at 100+ tech conferences, including TEDx, ReactLive, Node Summit, Google Dev Summit, 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, featured & 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.
Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft: Featured Ahmad Awais for his open-source work and contribution to Mars Helicopter Mission 2020 — Keynote: Microsoft Inspire Conference 2021.
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A developer advocate; who loves the color purple (purple can be genius).
I like computers, problems, and using the former to solve the latter. I believe in elegance over adequacy, thoughtfulness over impulse, and the wonder of the world as we see it. I have been developing and designing web pages since the early days of tables and spacers. And no – I’ve never used the scrolling marquee with Comic Sans fonts. 😅
Outdated bio page that I archived five years ago →
If you’d like to Say 👋 then send Awais an email.
Better yet, follow @MrAhmadAwais and DM on Twitter.
Helping businesses build developer-led adoption for 10+ yrs.
VP of Developer Relations (DevRel, DX Eng., Dev Content Docs) at RapidAPI. I'm Hiring!
📟 Edutainer at Node.js CLI Automation course (100 videos · 22 Projects) & VSCode.pro course. Over 36K devs learning. 🎩 Award-winning Open Source Engineer & Dev Advocate 🦊 Google Developers Expert Web DevRel 🚀 Mars Ingenuity Helicopter code contributor 🏆 8th GitHub Stars Award recipient 🌳 Node.js foundation Community Committee Outreach Lead, Member Linux Foundation, OpenAPI Business Governing Board, and DigitalOcean Navigator.
✌️ Author of various open-source dev-tools and software libraries used by millions of developers worldwide ⓦ WordPress Core Developer 📣 TEDx Speaker with 100+ international talks.
🔥 Satya Nadella · CEO of Microsoft, said — Awais is an awesome example for developers.
🙌 Leading developers and publishing technical content for over a decade 💜 Loves his wife (Maedah) ❯ Read more about Ahmad Awais.
👋… Awais is mostly active on Twitter @MrAhmadAwais