Google has just welcomed me in the Google Developers Experts Program after recognizing my open source work as a web technology expert....
Ahmad Awais
Ahmad Awais 👨🏫 Edutainer & teacher at VSCode.pro 🎩 Full-time #OpenSourcerer 🦊 Google Developers Expert for Web 🥑 OSS Developer Advocate 🌳 Node.js Foundation Community Committee Member 🔥 Ridiculously hard-working Full Stack Web Developer 😂 Hilarious comedian ⓦ Regular WordPress Core Developer 📣 TEDx Speaker ✌️ Spends 50-80% of his time building professional FOSS (Free & Open Source Software) used by over 1,399,687 Developers 🙌 Cloud Community Evangelist 🎯 JavaScript & DevOps fanboy 💜 Loves his wife (Maedah) 🍕 Learn more about Ahmad ↣
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YEARS IN REVIEW: Read what I've been doing in 
2015 
2016 
2017 and especially in 
2018
🐺 2018 Year in Review — Open Source, Node.js, Community & Developer Relations!
My (Ahmad Awais) 2018 Year in Review. I got to keynote at a conference, launched an online course (yay!), built an editor theme suite which is now used by more than a million developers, consulted with two fortune five companies (oh my), started a tech conference from the ground up, contributed to over 45 open source software projects (OSS [...]
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Introducing Bold New VSCode Theme: Shades of Purple 💜 🦄
I've just released a bold new custom theme for Visual Studio Code called Shades of Purple — which is also available for Slack, AlfredApp, Konsole, iTerm2, Hyper™, etc. In just two days of the theme launch, more than 500 developers are using it. Which is completely unexpected and humbling at the same time. Check it out.
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[PODCAST INTERVIEW] Ahmad Awais — Open Source as a Lifestyle
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 [...]
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