{"id":7217,"date":"2020-08-07T13:11:56","date_gmt":"2020-08-07T08:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ahmadawais.com\/?p=7217"},"modified":"2025-08-21T17:23:56","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T00:23:56","slug":"github-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ahmadawais.com\/github-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"GitHub Stars Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/section>\n
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I’m humbled to share that I’ve been awarded<\/a> a GitHub Stars Award<\/a><\/strong> and status by the good folks at GitHub. 8th worldwide out of 60 million developers on GitHub. It feels great to be recognized for my open-source work. You can check my profile here<\/a>. Or you can follow my open-source<\/a> work on GitHub.<\/p>\n

I’ve been creating open-source software for more than a decade. Joined GitHub on August 4, 2011. I was in college at that time. I remember using GitHub in 2009 but never registered on it. No one in the college taught us, git.<\/p>\n

Then I taught a workshop to a group of students as their teacher’s assistant on how to start contributing to open-source. Created an open-source repo to crowdsource sorting algorithms. We all had a lot of fun back then.<\/p>\n

Ten years later, most of my career direction has been towards building Free & Open Source Software (FOSS). Open-source has brought me a lot of opportunities. It’s helped me connect with a global audience.<\/p>\n

Companies like Google, PayPal, Netflix, Microsoft, and Amazon use my code in one way or another. My code (FOSS contributions) runs in almost every WordPress, Node.js, webpack, React, and a number of other applications \u2014both on earth and in Outerspace (via NASA). \ud83d\ude80<\/p>\n

Open-source also has a lot of problems. The biggest most prominent problems are open-source funding and telemetry. Hard to find out where your code ends up and many many enterprise companies use your code and don’t think about supporting open sourcerers.<\/p>\n

Anyhoo \u2014 that’s a story for another day. I’m always excited to share what I build with others. Thank you for supporting my work. I code to do good. You should too. Feel free to follow me on GitHub<\/a> and let’s hang out on Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Peace \ud83d\udd4a\ufe0f<\/p>\n

UPDATE<\/strong>: GitHub Stars program was launched<\/a> today and to my surprise, I’m one of the featured GitHub Stars on the homepage<\/a>. Also, received a surprise stars swag box that I’m going to unbox soon. Can’t wait to share what’s inside. And one more thing, I now have over 10K stargazers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Woohoo! \ud83e\udd73\ud83e\udd73\ud83e\udd73<\/p>\n

2025: Five years, five award, honored!<\/strong><\/p>\n

2024: Silicon Valley Developers Walk of Fame<\/a> \u2728\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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2023: Silicon Valley Developers Walk of Fame<\/a> \u2728\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n