{"id":7718,"date":"2021-11-11T10:20:51","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T05:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ahmadawais.com\/?page_id=7718"},"modified":"2025-08-20T09:57:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T16:57:19","slug":"now","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ahmadawais.com\/now\/","title":{"rendered":"Ahmad Awais"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Ahmad Awais<\/strong> is an award-winning open-source engineering leader. His software serves millions of developers. Code he wrote went to Mars.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ahmadawais.com\/my-open-source-code-contribution-to-nasas-ingenuity-helicopter-goes-to-mars\/\"><strong>&#8220;What an awesome example for developers,&#8221;<\/strong><\/a> said Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, in his MSInspire keynote \u2014 featuring Awais as one of the code contributors to NASA&#8217;s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter mission. (Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/awais.dev\/marsc\">https:\/\/Awais.dev\/marsc<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/usembislamabad\/status\/1394208120537296899\"><strong>&#8220;Pakistani developers are truly making their mark in the world,&#8221;<\/strong><\/a> said the US Embassy (Isb.) when highlighting Awais&#8217;s global software contributions. (Source: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/awais.dev\/usetweet\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/Awais.dev\/usetweet<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">)<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"wide\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/575396023?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Satya Nadella<\/strong>, CEO of Microsoft: Featured <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MrAhmadAwais\/\">Ahmad Awais<\/a> for his <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/AhmadAwais\">open-source work<\/a> and contribution to Mars Helicopter Mission 2020 \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/myinspire.microsoft.com\/sessions\/a80a31ae-565b-483d-ab34-b5e5b7fbc39b?source=sessions\">Keynote<\/a>: Microsoft Inspire Conference 2021.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Ahmad Awais<\/strong> is the CEO and Founder of Langbase.com, Ex VP of Developer Relations as part of the Executive Leadership Team at RapidAPI (over $272.5MM in funding a $1 Billion valuation from Microsoft Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Stripes, Soft Bank VF 2, and other investors with headquarters in the heart of Silicon Valley \u2014 RapidAPI is the world&#8217;s largest API Hub with four million developers and 40,000+ APIs. 100+ employees https:\/\/Awais.dev\/RapidAPI). <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Under his supervision, the DevRel, Dev Experience Engineering, Docs &amp; Developer Content teams have built the most engaged API Developers community with millions of developers and launched a new <a href=\"https:\/\/RapidAPI.com\/learn\">DevRel Learn APIs platform<\/a> from the ground up. Over 80 million developers read, viewed, and learned from this content in less than two years. He has helped several businesses make products with developer-led growth. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Awais has authored hundreds of open-source software tools used by over three million developers worldwide. For example, his<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ShadesOfPurple.pro\/vscode\"><b> Shades of Purple<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> code theme is one of the famous top ten dark code themes. He has open-sourced over a hundred automation CLI software (<a href=\"https:\/\/Awais.dev\/GitHub\">https:\/\/Awais.dev\/GitHub<\/a>). <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His code contribution to NASA&#8217;s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter mission was featured on Mashable, Geo TV, Hello Mag, and dozens of media publications (<a href=\"https:\/\/Awais.dev\/press\">https:\/\/Awais.dev\/press<\/a>). <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Awais built a <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/AhmadAwais\/corona-cli\">CLI command-line tool to track COVID-19<\/a> in March 2020. This project has served several billions of API requests making COVID stats accessible over 3.1 Billion times worldwide. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His projects have had an extensive global impact. Not exactly rocket science. Not exactly novel. But very powerful. Dev Ittycheria, CEO of MongoDB ($30B Market Cap.), awarded the esteemed <strong>&#8220;Front Line Heroes Award&#8221;<\/strong> to Awais for his work on the corona-cli project during the pandemic (featured on Bloomberg, Business Insider, and more at <a href=\"https:\/\/Awais.dev\/press\">https:\/\/Awais.dev\/press<\/a>).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Awais received the FOSS (Free &amp; Open Source Software) community leadership recognition as the 8th Gold GitHub Stars Award recipient out of 65M Developers. He was also <strong>listed #1 JavaScript &#8220;Trending Developer&#8221; worldwide by GitHub<\/strong>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His open-source software has received several awards: like the Automattic Design Trophy presented by John Maeda (MIT Media Labs ex-Professor, called the &#8220;Steve Jobs of academia&#8221; by Forbes). <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ahmadawais.com\/won-automattic-design-award-appreciation-matt-mullenweg\/\"><strong>&#8220;It&#8217;s very impressive!&#8221;<\/strong><\/a> said \u2014 Matt Mullenweg, co-founder of WordPress, as he asked for a round of applause in his SOTW keynote for Awais&#8217;s 13+ years of software contributions to the WordPress Dev Community.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Google recognized Awais as a <strong>&#8220;Google Developers Expert&#8221;<\/strong> (for three consecutive years, one of the five GDEs from Pakistan at the time). He was invited as a speaker for the GDE Global Summit with a sponsored US Google HQ trip.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ahmad Awais has been involved in several major tech communities and primarily open-source software governance initiatives as listed below:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Business Governance Board voting member at the Linux Foundation, OpenJS Foundation (Node.js project) &amp; OpenAPI Initiative.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Voting member of Node.js Community Committee, OpenJS Foundation. An honor currently extended to only 11 people worldwide. Node.js Community Committee Outreach Lead.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> DigitalOcean Navigator (one of the first three worldwide)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> WordPress Core\u200b Developer with contributions in 10+ major versions to core software that empowers 42.6% of all websites.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Ex-VP \u200bof \u200bEngineering\u200b\u200b at WGA: Managed a team of 11 managers and 33 developers. Led Engineering, DevOps, and Operations for enterprise clients like Network Solutions, Audi AG, Coca-Cola Global. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u200bAwais comes from a family of teachers and \u200bloves to teach code. Over 26,532 developers are learning from <a href=\"https:\/\/ahmadawais.com\/courses\/\">his courses<\/a>, i.e., <a href=\"https:\/\/NodeCLI.com\">NodeCLI.com<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/VSCode.pro\">VSCode.pro<\/a>,\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/NextjsBeginner.com\u200b\u200b\">NextjsBeginner.com\u200b\u200b<\/a>. He has also contributed over ten thousand free copies of premium courses and books to emerging developer communities in Africa (Nigeria, Ghana) and Asia (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Awais is an <a href=\"https:\/\/Awais.dev\/talks\">accomplished keynote speaker<\/a> with 100+ talks at sizable tech conferences, including TEDx, ReactLive, Concatenate Conf, DevWeek NYC, Node Summit, Google Dev Summit, Next.js Conf, and more. \u200b(More at <a href=\"https:\/\/Awais.dev\/talks\">https:\/\/Awais.dev\/talks<\/a>).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He is a member of the SmashingMagazine Experts Panel, a featured &amp; published author at CSS-Tricks, Tuts+, Scotch.io, and SitePoint, and wrote 100+ extensive in-depth technical long-form guides in several international tech magazines.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ahmad Awais is an established voice in the developer community: Verified tech-blogger Twitter account (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MrAhmadAwais\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/MrAhmadAwais<\/a>) with 47,500+ followers, 4.8 Million monthly blog views (21yrs of blogging), 156K+ subscribers, 11.5M answer-views on StackOverflow, and 18,919+ GitHub followers\/stargazers. Over 81,783 followers across social media platforms, including Facebook and YouTube. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All the community work Awais does is because of his unfettered ability to share everything he knows. Driven by the purpose of helping millions of developers make software that onboards the next billion internet users \u2014 and make the web accessible to everyone.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"postcontents full dark\">\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Connect with Awais<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Ahmad Awais at Twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mrahmadawais\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/ahmadawais\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">GitHub<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/pk.linkedin.com\/in\/mrahmadawais\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">LinkedIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/AhmadAwais\">YouTube<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/fb.com\/ahmadawais\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.wordpress.org\/mrahmadawais\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WordPress<\/a> | <a title=\"Ahmad Awais at Dribbble\" href=\"https:\/\/dribbble.com\/ahmadawais\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Dribbble<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<section class=\"postcontents wrapper\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/section>\n<div class=\"postcontents full\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-7862 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ahmadawais.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/ahmad-awais-logos-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Millions of developers use Ahmad Awais Code\" width=\"2560\" height=\"890\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ahmadawais.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/ahmad-awais-logos-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/ahmadawais.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/ahmad-awais-logos-scaled-300x104.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ahmadawais.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/ahmad-awais-logos-scaled-1024x356.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ahmadawais.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/ahmad-awais-logos-768x267.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ahmadawais.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/ahmad-awais-logos-scaled-1536x534.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/ahmadawais.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/ahmad-awais-logos-scaled-2048x712.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/ahmadawais.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/ahmad-awais-logos-scaled-1680x584.jpg 1680w, https:\/\/ahmadawais.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/ahmad-awais-logos-scaled-860x299.jpg 860w, https:\/\/ahmadawais.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/ahmad-awais-logos-scaled-680x236.jpg 680w, https:\/\/ahmadawais.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/ahmad-awais-logos-scaled-400x139.jpg 400w, https:\/\/ahmadawais.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/ahmad-awais-logos-scaled-50x17.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section class=\"postcontents wrapper\">\n<h2 id=\"resources\">Resources<a href=\"#resources\" class=\"heading-link\">#<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>Maybe you&#8217;re looking for the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/AhmadAwais.com\/courses\">Courses and books<\/a> \u2192<br \/>\n<em>List of professional courses and books by Ahmad Awais<\/em><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/AhmadAwais.com\/talks\">Talks, Conferences, Workshops<\/a> \u2192<br \/>\n<em>List of talks and other speaking engagements by Ahmad Awais<\/em><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/AhmadAwais.com\/subscribe\">Newsletter<\/a> \u2192<br \/>\n<em>The Developer Takeaway newsletter by Ahmad Awais<\/em><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/AhmadAwais.com\/uses\">Uses page<\/a> \u2192<br \/>\n<em>A list of software &amp; hardware products used by Ahmad Awais<\/em><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/AhmadAwais.com\/bio\">Speaker Bio and Press Kit<\/a> \u2192<br \/>\n<em>Includes up-to-date bio, links, and images of Ahmad Awais<\/em><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/AhmadAwais.com\/press\">Press Mentions, Media Coverage, Awards<\/a> \u2192<br \/>\n<em>A non-exhaustive list of press, media coverage, and awards<\/em><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/AhmadAwais.com\/contact\">Contact \/ Email<\/a> \u2192<br \/>\n<em>The best way to get in touch with Ahmad Awais<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahmad Awais is an award-winning open-source engineering leader. 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(Source: https:\/\/Awais.dev\/usetweet) Ahmad Awais is the CEO and Founder of Langbase.com, Ex VP of Developer Relations as part of the Executive Leadership Team at RapidAPI (over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6754,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7718","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ahmad Awais<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Ahmad Awais is an award-winning open-source engineering leader. His software serves millions of developers. 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