Ahmad Awais
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarAhmad 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
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (57)
visual-studio-code10
apim10
javascript10
wordpress-themes10
github10
python10
wordpress10
css10
code-standards10
command-line-interface10
gulp10
sass10
workflow-engine10
styled-components10
axios10
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
ahmadawais/corona-cli
Mar 2020 - Apr 2022
🦠 Track the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the command line. Worldwide for all countries, for one country, and the US States. Fast response time (< 100ms). https://x.com/MrAhmadAwais
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:53 releases, 157 commits, 24 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Ahmad primarily contributed to the development of a command-line interface (CLI) application for tracking COVID-19 data. Their commits included the initial setup, incorporating features such as country-specific data retrieval, sorting capabilities, and displaying results in a tabular format. The user also integrated external APIs, implemented a country name check for enhanced usability, and included features like update notifications, bar charts, and JSON output options. Additionally, the user added enhancements like sorting features and API handling to improve user experience.
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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.
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