Ahmad Awais
This is a story about how I fell in love with WordPress (and web) even after being misguided towards the career-path of Electrical Engineering and that of a jack of all trades, but WordPress community was where I found my true self.
Before I start writing this essay, I’d like to talk a little about HeroPress.
You see, I have been involved with this initiative for more than a year now. It was 23rd, January 2015 when I first posted about its Kickstarter campaign in the Advanced WordPress Facebook group. A few days later Matt Cromwell wrote a piece about Values and Pitfalls of HeroPress where we ended up with 200+ comments and a discussion about the name, i.e., HeroPress.
I won’t bore you with more details, but you can read about my views in the following screenshot.
Anywho, here we are β after a year β with 45+ fantastic HeroPress essays published. Topher has done a brilliant job of managing HeroPress. And he has been persistent in asking me to write an essay here.
But to be honest, I have had been trying to avoid it since I AM NO HERO.
I am just a regular full stack WordPress developer who loves to write, talk, build and share open source WordPress products.
I guess most of you don’t know that I am 24 years old β so, I don’t have that 30-years of experience or anything to share, but β I pride myself on being naturally keen and incessantly curious. You can always see me talking about the bleeding edge software and WP. I take a holistic approach towards software development and consider it a way of life. I crave leadership and envision collaboration over competition.
So, I am going to write my story β as I think of it β in the form of parts which represent different stages of my life. Before any of that, let me prefix the content of this post by confessing one more thing. I am not good at writing about myself. Maybe itβs the imposter syndrome. But thanks to Chris Lema, Iβm changing!
I talked about following parts of my life…
P.S. If you are struggling with a similar situation, where you want to adopt software development as a career, then donβt hesitate to contact me or reach out at Twitter (@mrahmadawais). Iβll aim to help everyone I can.
Founder & CEO of Langbase.com β The most powerful serverless AI developer platform for building AI products Β· Ship agentic AI pipes, tools, and memory with BaseAI β The first Web AI Framework (free, open-source, local-first, deploys serverless, agentic pipes, tools, and memory)
Ex VP DevTools & DevRel Eng. Rapid Β· Google Developers Advisory Board (gDAB) founding member. π§βπ» AI/ML/DevTools Angel Investor β― AI/ML Advisory Board San Francisco, DevNetwork
π© Award-winning Open Source Engineer & Dev Advocate π¦ Google Developers Expert Web DevRel π NASA Mars Ingenuity Helicopter mission code contributor π 8th GitHub Stars Award recipient with 5x GitHub Stars Award (Listed as GitHub's #1 JavaScript trending developer).
π³ Node.js foundation Community Committee Outreach Lead, Member Linux Foundation, OpenAPI Business Governing Board, and DigitalOcean Navigator. π Teaching thousands of developers Node.js CLI Automation and VSCode.pro course. Over 142 million views, 24 yrs Blogging, 108K developers learning, 200+ FOSS.
βοΈ Author of various open-source dev-tools and software libraries utilized by millions of developers worldwide β¦ WordPress Core Developer π£ TEDx Speaker with 100+ international talks.
β¨ As quoted by: Satya Nadella Β· CEO of Microsoft β Awais is an awesome example for developers.
π Loves his wife (Maedah) β― Read more about Ahmad Awais.
πβ¦ Awais is mostly active on π @MrAhmadAwais
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