Ahmad Awais
Founder & CEO at Google
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAhmad Awais is an award-winning open-source engineering leader and founder/CEO with 11+ years building developer-first products and communities from San Francisco. He has led DevRel and growth at scale—most recently as founder of Command Code (formerly Langbase) which powers composable, serverless AI coding agents—and previously built RapidAPI’s developer ecosystem and popular VS Code and WordPress tooling. Ahmad is a hands-on full-stack engineer and prolific open-source maintainer (WPGulp, create-guten-block, corona-cli) whose tooling is used by tens of thousands and has influenced WordPress core and Node.js community projects. He serves on Google’s Developer Advisory Board and as a Google Developers Expert, advising on developer platforms, AI, and web performance. Beyond product and community scale, he combines engineering craftsmanship (CLIs, JAMstack apps, build pipelines) with GTM strategy—having raised funding, led large engineering teams, and attracted marquee investors and partners. A detail-oriented builder, he’s known for squeezing performance and developer productivity out of tooling while publishing highly practical learning content and courses.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Web Application Architectures & Development (MGMT 632) (MOOC.) Web/Multimedia Management and Webmaster, Web Application Architectures & Development (MGMT 632) (MOOC.) Web/Multimedia Management and Webmaster at The University of New MexicoBachelors in Engineering Electrical & Computer Engineering, Bachelors in Engineering Electrical & Computer Engineering at University of Engineering and Technology, LahoreMS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Dropped out. (accepted a VP role at a San Francisco tech unicorn), MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Dropped out. (accepted a VP role at a San Francisco tech unicorn) at Harvard Business SchoolUniversity of California, Irvine
English, Urdu, javascript & typescript
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Github Skills (58)
visual-studio-code10
apim10
javascript10
github10
wordpress-themes10
python10
wordpress10
css10
code-standards10
sass10
command-line-interface10
gulp10
workflow-engine10
styled-components10
axios10
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
ahmadawais/create-guten-block
Dec 2017 - Oct 2022
📦 A zero-configuration #0CJS developer toolkit for building WordPress Gutenberg block plugins.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 536 commits, 51 PRs in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Ahmad primarily contributed to the development of a WordPress Gutenberg block plugin. Their work involved implementing UI components, including an accessible text input. The user was responsible for the creation of the main block and used styling with styled-components.
zerogutenberg-blockwordpressdeveloper-toolkitwordpress-gutenberg
ahmadawais/WPGulp
Dec 2015 - Nov 2020
An advanced Gulp workflow for WordPress development with extensive documentation. Used by 40,000+ themes and plugins.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:19 releases, 253 commits, 75 PRs in 5 years
Contributions summary:Ahmad primarily contributed to the build process and configuration of a WordPress theme development workflow using Gulp. Their commits include setting up tasks for managing CSS, JavaScript, and images, including minification, concatenation, and autoprefixing. They also integrated BrowserSync for live reloading and implemented internationalization features, generating a .pot file for translation. The contributions demonstrate expertise in front-end build processes and WordPress theme development.
gulpwordpress-apitranslationjavascriptwordpress
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