Ahmad Awais
I started reading and getting inspired by the excellent content of Smashing Magazine over 12 years ago, even before I started college. It was a dream to get published and featured at this site as a teenager.
🎖️ Today, I woke up to a tweet by SmashingMagazine and learned that I am featured on the homepage as a “Person of the Week“. I’m humbled beyond expression. Perfect start of the year.
It’s an absolute honor to be considered and featured on Smashing Magazine. Earlier my work has been featured in different forms like the wallpaper I designed and my open-source software libraries that were written about. I am also a small part of Smashing Magazine’s Experts Panel, where I help review content. But today’s feature is special for me.
Please give a round of applause for our Person of the Week: Ahmad Awais! Ahmad is passionate about Developer Experience and doesn’t rest when it comes to evangelizing Open Source and coding best practices.
Thank you for everything you do, @MrAhmadAwais!#smashingcommunity pic.twitter.com/kbJLWpYV6S
— Smashing Magazine (@smashingmag) January 6, 2020
I also love the fact that they chose to specify my open source work instead of everything else I do. Open source is a cause super close to my heart. I am a huge advocate of learning by open-sourcing code. Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) has helped me be what I am today.
A significant amount of software released today relies on different open-source software. If you’re a young aspiring software engineer, my advice to you is to invest some time in helping out the open-source community.
Well, that’s about it. I want to thank everyone at Smashing Magazine for making my week (may as well be the year). Keep smashing!
Peace! ✌️
🔥 Today, I woke up to a tweet by @SmashingMag and learned that I have been featured on the mag's homepage as a "Person of the Week". I'm honored. Perfect start of the year.
I wrote a little something about it…
Thank you, @SmashingMag keep smashing!
— Awais (@MrAhmadAwais) January 7, 2020
Founder & CEO of ⌘ Command Code, the most used coding agent for open models: 160K+ users, 50K+ paying customers. Founded Langbase (AI cloud for agents with memory & tools).
"What an awesome example for developers." — Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, on my NASA Ingenuity code.
NASA Ingenuity Mars Helicopter code contributor · 6× GitHub Star, one of the first 8 Gold Stars · #1 trending JavaScript developer on GitHub · 6× Google Developer Expert · 6× Microsoft MVP.
Ex VP DevRel & DevTools at RapidAPI · Google Developers Advisory Board (gDAB) founding member · OpenAPI Business Governing Board, Linux Foundation · SF DevNetwork AI/ML Advisory Board · Angel investor (Replit, Resend, Daytona, Gumroad and you?).
Award-winning open source engineering leader: 300+ projects, 50–100M downloads a year, including Shades of Purple (5M+ developers) and corona-cli (10B+ queries).
Taught 217K+ developers via NodeCLI.com and VSCode.pro. 160+ talks. Blogging since 2000, billions of views.
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