Biography
Ahmad Awais is an award-winning open-source engineer, Head of Developer Relations at RapidAPI, Google Developers Expert Dev Advocate, Node.js Community Committee Outreach Lead, BGB Member Linux Foundation & OpenAPI Initiative, WordPress Core Dev, and ex 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 or projects like the corona-cli. Awais contributed code to NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter mission.
Awais loves to teach. Over 20,000 developers are learning from his courses , i.e., NodeCLI.com, VSCode.pro, NextjsBeginner.com. He has spoken at 100+ tech conferences, including TEDx, ReactLive, Node Summit, Google Dev Summit, 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; featured & published author at CSS-Tricks, Tuts+, Scotch.io.
San Francisco, CA
Member since Jun 2011
