Speaker Bio | Press Kit

👋 Well, hello there, I’m Ahmad Awais. Nice to meet you.

You’ll find my Press Kit on this page, including my bio, pictures, and links.

I love public speaking – so much so that I’ve spent most of the last five years on the road (avg 33 conferences/yr). Pre COVID of course. I can talk for hours and hours. I once gave a talk and conducted a workshop for six straight hours. No chairs were thrown. ;)

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Ahmad Awais is an award-winning open-source engineer,​ VP of Developer Relations (DevRel & DX), Google Developers Advisory Board founding member, Google Expert ​Dev Advocate, Microsoft MVP, Node.js Community Committee Outreach Lead, BGB Member Linux Foundation & OpenAPI, WordPress Core​ Dev, and ex CMO and VP ​of ​Engineering​​ at WGA. He has authored various open-source software tools millions of developers use worldwide, like his Shades of Purple code theme​ or projects like the​ corona-cli. Awais contributed code to NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter mission. “What an awesome example for developers,” said Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft — featuring Awais’s code contribution to NASA Ingenuity Mars mission.

​Awais ​loves to teach. Over 108K 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, and 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; a 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.​

Medium 100 words:

Ahmad Awais is an award-winning open-source engineer,​ Vice President of Developer Relations at RapidAPI, Google Developers Advisory Board founding member, Google Dev Expert, Node.js Community Committee Outreach Lead, BGB Member Linux Foundation & OpenAPI, WordPress Core​ Dev, and ex-CMO and VP ​of ​Engineering​​ WGA.

He has authored various open-source dev tools millions of developers use worldwide, like his Shades of Purple code theme​ or the​ corona-cli​. Awais contributed code to NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter mission. “What an awesome example for developers,” said Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft — featuring Awais’s contribution to NASA & corona-cli. He’s a recognized open-source community leader among the 12 featured GitHub Stars.

Short 400 characters:

Ahmad Awais is an award-winning open-source engineer. Vice President of Developer Relations and Google Developers Advisory Board founding member. His software serves millions of developers. The code he wrote went to Mars. “What an awesome example for developers,” said Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft — featuring Awais’s code contribution to NASA Ingenuity Mars mission. He’s a Google Devs Expert and 3x recipient of the 8th GitHub Stars Gold award.

• NAME: Ahmad Awais
• PRONUNCIATION: How to pronounce Ahmad Awais?
• TWITTER: https://twitter.com/MrAhmadAwais
• CONTACT: https://AhmadAwais.com/contact
• WEBSITE: https://AhmadAwais.com
• COURSES: https://AhmadAwais.com/courses
• TALKS: https://AhmadAwais.com/talks
• ABOUT: https://AhmadAwais.com/about

I’m most recognized by this image below, which you’ll find in different sizes, with or without surroundings. Use whichever fits the bill. There’s also an illustrated version for if you’re doing speaker image illustrations or whatnot.

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Peace! :)