Ahmad Awais
A couple of weeks ago, I got interviewed by the WordPress PressThis Podcast about my favorite topic, i.e. Web & Open Source.
I enjoyed talking about how I got into open source, grew a huge network of followers especially over 10,000 developers who use my open source code, got half a million open source software downloads, and how it has actually become more than just software to me, and that it’s practically a lifestyle choice now.
🚀 If you’d like to know more about me and how I have adopted Open Source as a Lifestyle — take this podcast for a listen or listen it via the SoundCloud widget below.
Open Source as a Lifestyle#
We all have busy lives and too much to do, but thousands of people all around the world donate their time to open source projects like WordPress. Why? Listen to this episode of Press This where we interview WP #core contributor Ahmad Awais. Ahmad and his wife dedicate 30% of their time to contributing to open source projects. We’ll explore what rewards Ahmad gets from volunteering his time and how it has impacted his business. If you’ve been considering contributing to open source, don’t miss this podcast!
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VP of Developer Relations Rapid · Google Developers Advisory Board (gDAB) founding member. 🧑💻 AI/ML/DevTools Angel Investor ❯ AI/ML Advisory Board member San Francisco, DevNetwork
🎩 Award-winning Open Source Engineer & Dev Advocate 🦊 Google Developers Expert Web DevRel 🚀 NASA Mars Ingenuity Helicopter mission code contributor 🏆 8th GitHub Stars Award recipient with 3x GitHub Stars Award (Listed as GitHub's #1 JavaScript trending developer).
🌳 Node.js foundation Community Committee Outreach Lead, Member Linux Foundation, OpenAPI Business Governing Board, and DigitalOcean Navigator. 📟 Teaching thousands of developers Node.js CLI Automation (100 videos · 22 Projects) & VSCode.pro course. Over 142 Million views, 22 yrs Blogging, 56K developers learning, 200+ FOSS.
✌️ Author of various open-source dev-tools and software libraries utilized by millions of developers worldwide ⓦ WordPress Core Developer 📣 TEDx Speaker with 100+ international talks.
✨ As quoted by: Satya Nadella · CEO of Microsoft — 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
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It was a good talk :).
Hey, Hassan!
Glad you enjoyed it. 💯