Ahmad Awais

Ahmad Awais is an award-winning open-source engineering leader,​ founder, and CEO of Langbase.com (Serverless AI Developer Platform for building AI products.). NASA Mars Ingenuity Helicopter mission code-contributor. Angel investor. Ex-VP of Developer Relations, Google Developers Advisory Board founding member, Node.js Community Committee Outreach Lead, Business Governance Board Member Linux Foundation & OpenAPI Initiative, WordPress Core​ Developer​, and previously VP ​of ​Engineering​​ at WGA. He has authored various open-source software tools used by millions of developers worldwide, like his Shades of Purple code theme (4M Dev Users)​ or projects like the​ corona-cli​ (10+ Billion Requests). ​Awais ​loves to teach. Over 60,000 developers are learning from his courses ​, i.e., NodeCLI.com, VSCode.pro,​ and NextjsBeginner.com​​. He has spoken at 100+ tech conferences, including TEDx, ReactLive, Node Summit, Google Dev Summit, and Next.js Conf. ​Awais received the FOSS community leadership recognition as one of the first 12 featured GitHub Stars with a gold GitHub Stars Award. ​He is a member of the SmashingMagazine Experts Panel and a featured and published author at CSS-Tricks, Tuts+, Scotch.io, and SitePoint. You can mostly find ​him on Twitter @MrAhmadAwais, where he tweets his #OneDevMinute developer tips.​ OPEN SOURCE LEADERSHIP: · 4x Gold GitHub Stars Award recipient 8th out of 100 Million developed. · Winner of the Front Line Heroes MongoDB Innovation Award. · Listed #1 JavaScript Developer on GitHub Trending Developers. · Built 200+ open-source projects used by millions of devs (incl. Google/Facebook Engineers). · GitHub profile with tens of thousands of followers and stargazers: https://github.com/AhmadAwais ELOQUENT SPEAKER: · 100+ speaking engagements, including a TEDx Talk, Next.js Conf, Smashing Conf, React Conf. · Master of Ceremonies at two conferences with thousands of developers in the audience. · List of talks https://Awais.dev/talks WEB COMMUNITY INFLUENCER: · Lead community organizer for JavaScript and Cloud meetups (Country lead DigitalOcean). · Sold over 34,336 copies of books and courses (VSCode.pro, NodeCLI.com, Writy.io). 20+ YEARS EXPERIENCE: · Two exits, and one startup acquisition. Enterprise clients include Google, Audi-AG, Coca-Cola, BBDO Worldwide, Standard Chartered Bank, GSK (GlaxoSmithKline), Y- Combinator's Plan9 Ideas Battle Winner/Incubatee, featured and published at several international blogs/mags, E.g., Forbes, SmashingMag, TorqueMag, SitePoint, Envato Tuts+ Code Instructor (100+ Articles), etc.