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
Helping businesses build developer-led adoption for 10+ yrs.
VP of Developer Relations and Google Developers Advisory Board (gDAB) founding member.
📟 Edutainer at Node.js CLI Automation course (100 videos · 22 Projects) & VSCode.pro course. Over 36K devs learning. 🎩 Award-winning Open Source Engineer & Dev Advocate 🦊 Google Developers Expert Web DevRel 🚀 Mars Ingenuity Helicopter code contributor 🏆 8th GitHub Stars Award recipient 🌳 Node.js foundation Community Committee Outreach Lead, Member Linux Foundation, OpenAPI Business Governing Board, and DigitalOcean Navigator.
✌️ Author of various open-source dev-tools and software libraries used 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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