An invited member of the Node.js Community Committee, a top-level committee in the Node.js Foundation. An honor currently extended to only 12 people worldwide.

• Maintaining the Nodejs.dev project part of the website-redesign initiative
• Kick-started the Community Outreach initiative for consistent community growth 
• Built an SEO component from scratch, improving the site's SEO and Social Markup
• Using GraphQL, Gatsby.js, React.js to build a custom sitemap for the site learning resources
• Helped reviewed pull requests and issues, attending the community meetings, arranging regular meetups, and working on standards for formatting the codebase, among other things


CONTRIBUTIONS:
• Received multiple contribution props in the VSCode Release v1.24 for contributions to VSCode Chrome-Debug & Extension Samples. (https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_24).
• VSCode has become my go-to editor and I find myself more and more involved in the VSCode community lately. This is also why I taught a course on how to become a VSCode Power User → https://VSCode.pro/
• Built Shades of Purple VSCode Theme → https://ShadesOfPurple.pro/vscode

CONTRIBUTIONS:
• Regular WordPress Core Contributor for the last ten major WordPress releases WP 4.2. (4.2, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7, 4.8, 4.9, 5.0, 5.2, 5.3, 5.7). Improved & fixed code, documentation on ~150 core tickets ~40 commits.
• Community Roles/Involvement: Part of WordPress documentation, Core, Design, Core-JavaScript, and marketing teams. WordPress Profile badges for core, plugin dev, Codex/Dev Reference & Handbooks contributor. Conducted Global WPTranslation Days and Global WP Contributors Weekend (solved 164 Support Tickets), etc. 

Gave a TEDx Talk at one of the first TEDx events in LHR at UET.
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/7254

Core Contributions to WordPress (4.9, 5.0) and FOSS (Free & Open Source Software) repositories from these software and companies: Gutenberg, Automattic, Zeit, Google, Azure, Microsoft, Microsoft Docs, TwentyNineteen, Facebook, WP-API, WP Metabox, WPTie, XWP, HumanMade, WP-CLI, Gambitph, Redux Framework, AesopInteractive, Sitepoint-wp-editors, Freemius, TGMPA, Moxie-Lean, Timber, WooCommerce, Easy Digital Downloads, DevBridge, BrowserSync, HighlightJS, Escalade Sports, Formidable Labs, MDX JS, webpack, Node GH, EasyEngine, CalderaWP, Serverless, ThePracticalDev, AMP Project, ShellJS, Styled Components, Nuxt, TheDevsNetwork, Laccadive-io, and Exchange Rates API. — @AhmadAwais on GitHub

CONTRIBUTIONS:
• Core contributions to the Gutenberg Project
• Built Gutenberg Boilerplate (used by 5,000+ devs) 
• Built and open-sourced create-guten-block (https://github.com/ahmadawais/create-guten-block) to help devs kick-start WordPress block development. One of my best open source projects, used by 15,000+ developers

CONTRIBUTIONS:
• 100% WordPress Translation in Urdu
• I took the initiative to get WordPress translated into Urdu (my mother tongue). 
• Participated in the global WP translation day as a speaker taught an audience of 100 about how to translate and then in a week, along with 110 contributors, translated more than 8,000 strings to Urdu. WordPress 4.7 might be the first version to have a 100% Urdu translated variant. (https://Awais.dev/WPUrdu)


CONTRIBUTIONS:
• Default WordPress Themes: I contributed code to the upcoming default WordPress theme called TwentySixteen/TwentySeventeen.
• Coding Standards: I contributed several small but meaningful CSS tweaks and hacks and made the theme files conform to the WordPress Coding Standards and PHPCS.

Built the biggest, most engaged API Developers community of 52 Million developers from scratch.
Ahmad Awais is the Vice President of Developer Relations as part of the Executive Leadership Team, reporting directly to the founder and CEO at RapidAPI — over $272M in funding at a $1 Billion valuation from Microsoft Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Stripes, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Green Bay, and more incredible investors. RapidAPI is the world's largest API Developers Platform - with four million developers and 40,000+ APIs. A global company with headquarters in the heart of Silicon Valley, offices in Tallinn, Tel Aviv, Berlin — and 100+ employees. Dozens of Fortune 500 companies use RapidAPI Enterprise Hub to enable digital transformation initiatives. More at → https://Awais.dev/RapidAPI

Awais hired and built a team of 19+ fantastic DevRel (full-time & contractors) and took it from Zero to Hero in less than one year: Developer Advocates (code, community, social, content, video, docs, and o

Prime architect to have designed & developed the entire CloudyCAM Developer Experience.
• Prime architect of CloudyCAM.dev developer activation JAMstack app; designed & developed it from scratch. Re-evaluated the DevRel events' business value and improved the go-to-market adoption strategy. Engagement of 537,498+ developer-views at 16 conferences, including the SmashingConf, JAMstackConf, BackendlessConf, React LIVE, Serverless Days, JSCamp, CSSCamp, FullStack Fest, and tens of tech meetups
• CloudyQUIZ game to engage devs with Cloudinary API with a real-time leaderboard
• Google Web.dev contributor: Published extensive media optimization CodeLab
• CloudyPEN: A CodePen like sandbox as a playground for the Cloudinary API

Helping Google improve the web platform for the next billion users. Making it more accessible, helpful, performant, and effective with cutting-edge web development techniques, research work, as well as community evangelism for the open-source and free software community. 

Invited by Google to be one of the Google Developers Experts in their GDE for Web technologies program after getting recognized for my open source work. Received an invitation to a sponsored trip for the GDE Global Summit 2019 in Sunnyvale, CA, USA. Participated and delivered a talk in a Google's Bay area meetup.

Developer Advocates from Google contacted me to share that they are using one of my award-winning open-source projects and wanted me to consult on an ongoing project. Which later led to a contract assignment, among other things. Worked on AMP + WordPress Gutenberg integration. So fun!

►  OPEN SOURCE CONSULTANT:
• Consulted on open source projects: Create-Guten-Block & Gutenberg Boilerplate
• Advised Google's Developer Relations team about the WordPress Gutenberg project
• Awarded project — contract work that led to a job/application and then the on-site interview job offer

Node.js Community Committee voting member (out of eight worldwide), a top-level committee in the Node.js / OpenJS Foundation. Node.js Foundation Outreach champion.
• Leading the Node.js Outreach efforts & live-streamed YouTube meetings
• Maintaining the Nodejs.dev project; part of the website-redesign initiative
• Kick-started the Community Outreach initiative for consistent community growth 
• Built an SEO component from scratch to improve the site's SEO and Social Markup
• Using GraphQL, Gatsby.js, React.js to build a custom sitemap for the site learning resources
• Helped reviewed pull requests and issues, attending the community meetings, arranging regular meetups, and working on standards for formatting the codebase, among other things

Recorded/Edited Video Course & built a Learning Management System from scratch
• 21,387+ Developers converted to VSCode through my VSCode Power User course
• Built 3rd top VSCode theme Shades of Purple used by over a Million developers
• 143+ five-star ratings. Featured on OnePageLove, awesome-vscode, & hot themes list
• Learned professional videography with ScreenFlow, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Audition
• Coded a Learning Management System from scratch in React.js, Node.js, Go-lang, and PHP
• Built workflows for creating ClosedCaptions to improve accessibility for adult learners
• Devised a Purchasing Power Parity program giving up to 58% discounted price to support 149+ countries via Learning > Earning initiative on my personal expense

LEADING MEETUPS & EVENTS 
• Started DigitalOcean local meetups group
• Grew meetups to an audience of 1,548+ developers, DevOps, & System/IT folks in a year
• 900% Engagement increment for DigitalOcean's in the country, online material, and courses

DigitalOcean is a phenomenal company where I self-host many of my high traffic WordPress and MERN (MongoDB, Express, React, Node.js), JAM (JavaScript, API, Markup) stack websites.

DEVELOPER CONTENT
• Featured among — Faces of WordPress https://AhmdA.ws/FACESofWP
• One of the two lead developer technical instructors at the Torque Magazine
• Wrote ~30 Web Development Opinion pieces. Several went viral & featured at WPWeekly Podcast
• WHITE PAPER: Web Agencies Win With WordPress Feb 16, 2017, • WPEngine (Torque Mag)

• Hired and built a team of 156 Engineers / Led teams of 13 Dev Team Leads.
• Helping devs: 20,857+ GitHub audience & 10 Million views on StackOverflow.
• 360° Engineering Leadership: With small businesses to enterprise clients, like Network Solutions. Led projects and conducted hiring interviews.
• USD 2+ million recurring revenue: Joint venture in a WordPress business.
• 18,000+ customers for premium WordPress products (themes/plugins) via WPTiE.
• Acquired a training startup; FinkTanks. Trained 10,000+ engineering students.
• Node.js (OpenJS Foundation) top-level Community Committee member. Outreach initiative champion. Conducting regular YouTube Live stream meetings.

Rock-solid commitment to the WordPress software community, 150+ open source projects, 26,000+ dev-newsletter subscribers, 500,000+ plugin + theme downloads, and a regular WordPress Core contributing developer has helped me become an open-source thought-leader backed by 20+ Multinational companies.

CORE DEVELOPER
• Regular WordPress Core Contributor 10+ Major versions
• Improved & fixed code, documentation on ~150 core tickets ~40 commits

OPEN SOURCE CONTRIBUTIONS
• Built 100+ Free & Open Source Software for the WordPress community
• Contributions to WP community projects, E.g., Gutenberg Blocks Editor, WP REST API, WooCommerce, EDD, default WordPress Themes, i.e., TwentySeventeen, TwentyNineteen, WP Customizer, etc.

COMMAND LINE POWER USER/DEV
• Developed 100+ command lines interface (CLI) dev-tools
• Built automation for WordPress server backup, restore, image optimization
• Created cPanel to DigitalOcean/EasyEngine Migration CLI — improved migration time by 80%

FRONT END DEV:
• D

VP DevRel ❯ Award-winning Open Source Eng. ❯ Google Developer Expert Web ❯ GitHub #1 trending JavaScript Dev ❯ NASA 

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cPanel to EasyEngine Migrate CLI (CEM CLI) is a bash script built to help people migrate their sites from a cPanel to a rented VPS with EasyEngine installed on it.

CEM CLI (cPanel to EasyEngine Migration CLI)

Built a `WPCustomize` Boilerplate WP Theme. Customizer components related boilerplate theme and feature implementation. It implements all the basic and advanced controls WordPress customizer comes within the core. I plan to build a custom c

WPCustomizer | WP Customizer Components Boilerplate

PTCL-CLI (ptcli): An intuitive PTCL-CLI to control PTCL routers via command line. Reboot, check system info, line parameters, or calculate SNR signal to noise ratio — all that via command line.

PTCL CLI (PTCLI)

A zero-configuration #0CJS developer toolkit for building WordPress Gutenberg block plugins. https://Awais.dev/bcgb

► SKILLS: 
• Modern JavaScript ES6+
• React, webpack, and Node.js

►  STATS & IMPACT:
• Googlers explored this project for 

📦  Create Guten Block — React.js WordPress Blocks

_child is a WordPress child theme boilerplate built under GPL license. DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself) philosophy.


_child – A WordPress Child Theme Boilerplate

🔰WordPress Gutenberg Boilerplate! — Easy to understand and extensive inline documentation. https://ahmda.ws/GutenbergBoilerplate

► SKILLS: 
• Modern JavaScript
• Gulp.js, Node.js, ES6+
• Sass, i18n, PHPCS
• ESLint/Prettier

►  STATS & IMP

Gutenberg Boilerplate

UI Concept for WordPress post editor. It has following attributes 
- Flat 
- Fullscreen Tabs(To avoid heavy mess of design) 
- API to add your plugin as a tab

WordPress Post Editor — Concept

WordPress plugin welcome page boilerplate!

Features:
— Adds a transient on plugin activation
— Deletes a transient on plugin deactivation
— Safe redirect to the welcome page for one time
— Boilerplate Welcome page

WP Welcome Page Boilerplate

► SKILLS: 
• Modern JavaScript
• Gulp.js, Node.js, ES6+
• Sass, i18n, image API
• ESLint/Prettier

►  STATS & IMPACT:
• 740+ Stargazers — Used in 1,000+ WordPress projects. 14 contributors.
• Built the most popular Gulp workflow for WordPre

WPGulp: Advanced WordPress Gulp Boilerplate

Built a Sublime Text Editor's package of snippets for WordPress Customizer. Different kind of tab-triggered sublime text snippets/completions. 
In first two weeks:
— 32nd Most Trending Package.
— 300+ Downloads across Mac OS X, Win and Linu

Sublime Package for WordPress Customizer

📟  CLI to create new Node.js CLI applications in minutes not hours. 200+ CLI projects.

Create Node CLI

CF7 Customizer is an intuitive plugin to design your contact forms 
via WordPress live customizer, right at the front-end.
— Featured at ProductHunt.
— 100+ Active Installs in first two weeks
— 500+ Downloads in first two weeks
— Crazy 5 St

CF7 Customizer

A command-line tool that made COVID19 statistics available to billions of people. Accessed over 20 Billion times in less than a year. Used at hospitals, medical colleges throughout the world.

🦠 Track the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in 