{"id":8123,"date":"2025-08-21T20:39:43","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T03:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ahmadawais.com\/?p=8123"},"modified":"2026-02-13T19:17:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T03:17:16","slug":"things-im-proud-of-i-believe-and-some-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ahmadawais.com\/things-im-proud-of-i-believe-and-some-more\/","title":{"rendered":"things i&#8217;m proud of, I believe, and some more!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83d\udc4b hey it&#8217;s Ahmad Awais, nice to meet you.<\/p>\n<p>i&#8217;m founder &amp; ceo at <a href=\"https:\/\/commandcode.ai\">CommandCode<\/a> (coding agent with continuous learning of your coding taste) f\/k\/a <a href=\"https:\/\/langbase.com\">langbase<\/a> (AI cloud) where we help developers build, deploy, and scale serverless AI agents with tools and memory.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"things-im-proud-of\">things i&#8217;m proud of<a href=\"#things-im-proud-of\" class=\"heading-link\">#<\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>founding <a href=\"https:\/\/commandcode.ai\">CommandCode<\/a>\u00a0with meta neuro-symbolic ai model<\/li>\n<li>founding <a href=\"https:\/\/langbase.com\">langbase<\/a>, creating <a href=\"https:\/\/command.new\">command.new<\/a>, inventing <a href=\"https:\/\/langbase.com\/docs\">pipes<\/a> (og mcp!)<\/li>\n<li>incredible investors: <a href=\"https:\/\/langbase.com\/about\">github&#8217;s founder, apple&#8217;s cfo &amp; 30+ tech leaders<\/a><\/li>\n<li>hiring a phenomenal founding x cracked team (100hrs\/week!)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ahmadawais.com\/my-open-source-code-contribution-to-nasas-ingenuity-helicopter-goes-to-mars\/\">nasa mars helicopter code contributor<\/a> (my code is on mars!)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ahmadawais.com\/github-stars\/\">one of 8 developers (out of 100M+) with 5x gold github stars award<\/a><\/li>\n<li>built rapid devrel from $0 to $272M funding to $1B valuation<\/li>\n<li>got Meta (facebook) to open source and MIT license React<\/li>\n<li>built <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/AhmadAwais\">300+ open source projects<\/a> used by millions<\/li>\n<li>created <a href=\"https:\/\/marketplace.visualstudio.com\/items?itemName=ahmadawais.shades-of-purple\">shades of purple theme<\/a> (5M+ developers using it)<\/li>\n<li>built world&#8217;s largest (91M+ dev) api developer community at rapid<\/li>\n<li>taught 100K+ developers through <a href=\"https:\/\/ahmadawais.com\/courses\/\">courses<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/ahmadawais.com\/talks\/\">100+ conference talks<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ahmadawais.com\/google-developers-expert\/\">6x google developers expert<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MrAhmadAwais\/status\/1641065631243206657\">3x microsoft mvp<\/a><\/li>\n<li>smol early angel investor in <a href=\"https:\/\/resend.com\/about\">resend<\/a>, gumroad &amp; others<\/li>\n<li>married to my best friend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/maedahbatool\/\">maedah batool<\/a><\/li>\n<li>served 10 billion+ covid queries with <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/ahmadawais\/corona-cli\">corona-cli<\/a><br \/>\nwhen the world needed it<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"things-i-believe\">things i believe<a href=\"#things-i-believe\" class=\"heading-link\">#<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><strong>purple &gt; all other colors<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PQt5B1GsTsg\">your brain literally invents purple when you see it<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/marketplace.visualstudio.com\/items?itemName=ahmadawais.shades-of-purple&amp;ssr=false#review-details\">great tools should spark joy (shades of purple)<\/a><\/li>\n<li>purple is genius, fight me<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>ship code that flies (literally)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>my code is on mars, what&#8217;s your excuse?<\/li>\n<li>ship fast &gt; 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bloated frameworks<\/li>\n<li>prompt. sip. ship.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>faith grounds everything<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>grateful (alhamdulillah!) to one Allah for everything<\/li>\n<li>risk is directly proportional to rizq (provision)<\/li>\n<li>giving back is not optional, it&#8217;s essential<\/li>\n<li>success without giving back is incomplete<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"currently-building\">currently building<a href=\"#currently-building\" class=\"heading-link\">#<\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Command Code &#8211; coding agent that continuously learns your coding taste. Powered by taste-1 applied meta neuro-symbolic AI.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/langbase.com\">langbase.com<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; serverless ai cloud for agents with memory &amp; tools (processing billions of tokens daily, 1B+ agent runs monthly)<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/command.new\">command.new<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; vibe-code any ai agent, your on-demand ai engineer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"quick-facts\">quick facts<a href=\"#quick-facts\" class=\"heading-link\">#<\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>started coding when web was just tables &amp; spacer gifs<\/li>\n<li>never used comic sans in a marquee tag (i have standards)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MrAhmadAwais\/status\/1415693462238896139\">satya nadella said &#8220;what an awesome example&#8221;<\/a> (mom&#8217;s proud)<\/li>\n<li>react, node, wordpress core developer (the web purist)<\/li>\n<li>making purple the official color of good code<\/li>\n<li>investing in founders who ship fast (<a href=\"https:\/\/Awais.dev\/dm\">DMs open!<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>based in san francisco bay area<\/li>\n<li>can&#8217;t say no to interesting problems<\/li>\n<li>share what i know kind of a guy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"find-me\">find me<a href=\"#find-me\" class=\"heading-link\">#<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MrAhmadAwais\">\ud835\udd4f (twitter)<\/a> \u00b7<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/ahmadawais\">github<\/a> \u00b7<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/linkedin.com\/in\/MrAhmadAwais\">linkedin<\/a> \u00b7<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/ahmadawais\">youtube<\/a> \u00b7<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/ahmadawais.com\/contact\/\">email<\/a><\/p>\n<p>want to work together? building something cool? just want to argue about why purple is the best color?<a href=\"https:\/\/Awais.dev\/dm\"> dm me on \ud835\udd4f<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/ahmadawais.com\/contact\/\">send an email<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2 id=\"deeper-dive\">deeper dive<a href=\"#deeper-dive\" class=\"heading-link\">#<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>click any of these to open. or read the full <a href=\"https:\/\/AhmadAwais.com\/about\">\/about<\/a> page.<\/p>\n<details>\n<summary>\u276f leadership &amp; 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helping developers solve problems<br \/>\n<strong>160M+ Blog Views<\/strong> &#8211; blogging since 2001<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>\u276f notable projects<\/summary>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/marketplace.visualstudio.com\/items?itemName=ahmadawais.shades-of-purple\"><strong>Shades of Purple<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; vs code theme with 5M+ users<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/ahmadawais\/corona-cli\"><strong>Corona-CLI<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; served 10 billion+ queries during pandemic<br \/>\n<strong>Create-Guten-Block<\/strong> &#8211; made react + wordpress not painful for 100k+ developers<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/NodeCLI.com\"><strong>NodeCLI.com<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; building command-line interfaces course<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/VSCode.pro\"><strong>VSCode.pro<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; advanced vs code techniques (31k+ students)<br \/>\n<strong>RapidAPI VS Code Extension<\/strong> &#8211; 10M downloads, 500k active installs<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>\u276f speaking &amp; awards<\/summary>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MrAhmadAwais\/status\/1931754386835034131\"><strong>Best Speaker Award<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; ai.engineer conf san francisco<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/ahmadawais.com\/won-mongodb-innovation-award-front-line-heroes-2021-corona-cli\/\"><strong>MongoDB Innovation Award<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; corona-cli<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/ahmadawais.com\/won-automattic-design-award-appreciation-matt-mullenweg\/\"><strong>MIT Media Labs &amp; a8c Open Source Design Award<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>TEDx Speaker<\/strong> &#8211; delivered tedx talk<br \/>\n<strong>Keynote speaker<\/strong> &#8211; and talks at 100+ conferences including google i\/o, github universe, openai devday, microsoft ai tour<br \/>\nfull list at <a href=\"https:\/\/ahmadawais.com\/talks\/\">\/talks<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/ahmadawais.com\/bio\/\">speaker bio<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/ahmadawais.com\/speaker-terms\/\">speaker terms<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>\u276f resources<\/summary>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ahmadawais.com\/courses\/\"><strong>Courses<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; professional courses by ahmad awais<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/ahmadawais.com\/subscribe\/\"><strong>Newsletter<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; the developer takeaway (193k+ subscribers)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/ahmadawais.com\/uses\/\"><strong>Uses<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; software &amp; hardware i use<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/ahmadawais.com\/press\/\"><strong>Press<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; media coverage &amp; awards (need to update)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/Awais.dev\/odmt\"><strong>#OneDevMinute<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; daily tips on \ud835\udd4f<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em style=\"font-family: Georgia;\">p.s. \u2014 yes, you made it to the end. you absolute legend.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83d\udc4b hey it&#8217;s Ahmad Awais, nice to meet you. i&#8217;m founder &amp; ceo at CommandCode (coding agent with continuous learning of your coding taste) f\/k\/a langbase (AI cloud) where we help developers build, deploy, and scale serverless AI agents with tools and memory. things i&#8217;m proud of# founding CommandCode\u00a0with meta neuro-symbolic ai model founding langbase, creating command.new, inventing pipes (og mcp!) incredible investors: github&#8217;s founder, apple&#8217;s cfo &amp; 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