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444			<p class="text-2xl font-bold mt-1 text-text-100"><strong>Ahmad Awais is the Founder &amp; CEO of <a href="https://commandcode.ai">Command Code</a></strong><br />
445<em style="font-family: Georgia;">❯ <a href="https://ahmadawais.com/my-open-source-code-contribution-to-nasas-ingenuity-helicopter-goes-to-mars/">NASA Mars Helicopter Code Contributor</a> (still surreal)<br />
446❯ <a href="https://ahmadawais.com/github-stars/">One of 8 developers (out of 100M+) with 6x Gold GitHub Stars Award</a></em></p>
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448<p class="whitespace-normal break-words"><strong>Ahmad Awais</strong> is an award-winning open-source engineering leader who has shaped developer tools used by millions worldwide. From contributing <a href="https://ahmadawais.com/my-open-source-code-contribution-to-nasas-ingenuity-helicopter-goes-to-mars/">code flying on Mars</a> to founding Command Code &#8211;
448 a frontier coding agent that builds software and coding taste (with meta neuro-symbolic continuous learning prev f/k/a <a href="https://langbase.com/docs">Langbase</a>).<br />
449And yes, purple over any other color!</p>
450<p class="whitespace-normal break-words">Started coding when web was young (and I was 9yrs old), mostly built with just tables and spacer GIFs. And no, I never used Comic Sans in a marquee tag though, I have standards. Now building the infrastructure that powers billions of AI agent runs. Funny how things work out.</p>
451<p class="whitespace-normal break-words">Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, married to my best friend, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/maedahbatool/">Maedah Batool</a>. Building tools developers love. Investing in founders who ship. Small angel investor in companies like Resend, Gumroad, and maybe <a href="https://Awais.dev/dm">you</a>?</p>
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457<p class="whitespace-normal break-words"><em style="color: #2d2b55; font-family: Georgia;">Want to work together? Building something cool? Just want to argue about why purple is the best color? Send me a <a href="https://Awais.dev/dm">DM on 𝕏 (Twitter)</a> or an <a href="https://ahmadawais.com/contact/">email</a>.</em></p>
458<h3 id="leadership-board-positions">Leadership &amp; Board Positions<a href="#leadership-board-positions" class="heading-link">#</a></h3>
459<p class="whitespace-normal break-words">(Because apparently I can&#8217;t say no to interesting problems)<br />
460<strong>Google Developer Advisory Board (gDAB)</strong> &#8211; founding member<br />
461<strong>Linux Foundation</strong> &#8211; <a href="https://ahmadawais.com/nodejs-community-committee-member/">Nodejs CommComm outreach lead</a><br />
462<strong>OpenJS Foundation</strong> &#8211; formerly k/a Nodejs Foundation<br />
463<strong>OpenAPI Initiative</strong> &#8211; Business Governing Body Member<br />
464<a href="https://www.devnetwork.com/about/advisory-boards/ai-ml-advisory-board/"><strong>San Francisco DevNetwork</strong> &#8211; AI/ML Advisory Board</a></p>
465<h3 id="achievements-awards">Achievements &amp; Awards<a href="#achievements-awards" class="heading-link">#</a></h3>
466<p><strong>The Big Ones<br />
467</strong><a href="https://ahmadawais.com/my-open-source-code-contribution-to-nasas-ingenuity-helicopter-goes-to-mars/"><strong>NASA Mars Ingenuity Helicopter </strong></a>&#8211; Code Contributor (2021) &#8211; Still can&#8217;t believe this happened, I&#8217;m a martian! No wonder I like the purple color<br />
468<a href="https://ahmadawais.com/github-stars/"><strong>6x GitHub Stars Award </strong></a>&#8211; One of 8 recipients among 180M+ developers globally, five times since 2020, ranked <a href="https://ahmadawais.com/javascript-trending-developer/">#1 JavaScript developer</a> (<a href="https://github.com/AhmadAwais">GitHub</a>)<br />
469<a href="https://ahmadawais.com/my-open-source-code-contribution-to-nasas-ingenuity-helicopter-goes-to-mars/"><strong>Microsoft CEO Keynote</strong></a> &#8211; <a href="https://x.com/MrAhmadAwais/status/1415693462238896139"><strong>&#8220;What an awesome example for developers&#8221;</strong> said Satya Nadella</a>. Mom was impressed</p>
470<p class="text-lg font-bold text-text-100 mt-1 -mb-1.5"><strong>Awards &amp; Technical Recognition<br />
471</strong>&#8211; <a href="https://ahmadawais.com/won-mongodb-innovation-award-front-line-heroes-2021-corona-cli/">MongoDB Innovation Award (corona-cli)</a><br />
472&#8211; 6x <a href="https://ahmadawais.com/google-developers-expert/">Google Developers Expert</a> (Web, AI, DevTools)<br />
473&#8211; 3x <a href="https://x.com/MrAhmadAwais/status/1641065631243206657">Microsoft Most Valuable Professional</a>
473 (DevTools)<br />
474&#8211; <a href="https://ahmadawais.com/won-automattic-design-award-appreciation-matt-mullenweg/">MIT Media Labs &amp; a8c Open Source Design Award</a><br />
475&#8211; Cloudflare Developer Expert · DigitalOcean Navigator</p>
476<h3 class="text-xl font-bold text-text-100 mt-1 -mb-0.5" class="text-xl font-bold text-text-100 mt-1 -mb-0.5" id="open-source-impact">Open Source Impact<a href="#open-source-impact" class="heading-link">#</a></h3>
477<p class="whitespace-normal break-words">Ahmad Awais has authored <a href="https://github.com/AhmadAwais">numerous open source tools and projects</a> used by millions of developers, downloaded 50M+ times a year. His open-source work spans critical web infrastructure projects, with measurable impact across the developer ecosystem.</p>
478<p><a href="https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ahmadawais.shades-of-purple"><strong>Shades of Purple</strong></a><br />
479&#8211; VS Code theme with 5M+ users (purple is genius, fight me)<br />
480<a href="https://github.com/ahmadawais/corona-cli"><strong>Corona-CLI</strong></a><br />
481&#8211; Like perplexity but for COVID data<br />
482&#8211; Served 10 Billion+ queries when the world needed it<br />
483<strong><a href="https://github.com/AhmadAwais">300+ open source projects</a><br />
484</strong>&#8211; Shipping new projects daily, check my <a href="https://github.com/AhmadAwais">profile readme</a><br />
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486</strong>, Node.js, WordPress Core developer (44% of the web), webpack, VS Code, and <a href="https://github.com/AhmadAwais">many more</a></p>
487<p><strong>Core Contributions</strong> to the web infrastructure React (got Meta to open source React under MIT License when it wasn&#8217;t), other prominent contributions include MCP spec, Gemini CLI, VS Code Core, Node.js (Site/CLI spec), Next.js, WordPress, Bootstrap, Oh My Zsh, W3C, and <a href="https://github.com/AhmadAwais">240+ major open source projects</a>.</p>
488<h3 class="text-xl font-bold text-text-100 mt-1 -mb-0.5" class="text-xl font-bold text-text-100 mt-1 -mb-0.5" id="teaching-speaking">Teaching &amp; Speaking<a href="#teaching-speaking" class="heading-link">#</a></h3>
489<p>I have a genetic bug for teaching—both grandparents and parents are teachers. Don&#8217;t have a choice. When developers win, we all win.</p>
490<p class="text-lg font-bold text-text-100 mt-1 -mb-1.5"><strong>Developer Education &#8211; </strong><strong>117K+ students</strong> across premium courses:<br />
491<a href="https://NodeCLI.com"><strong>NodeCLI.com</strong></a> &#8211; Building command-line interfaces (100 videos)<br />
492<a href="https://VSCode.pro"><strong>VSCode.pro</strong></a> &#8211; Advanced VS Code techniques (31K+ students)<br />
493<strong>NextjsBeginner.com</strong> &#8211; Modern React framework fundamentals<br />
494and more listed on the <a href="https://ahmadawais.com/courses/">/courses</a> page.</p>
495<p class="text-lg font-bold text-text-100 mt-1 -mb-1.5"><strong><a href="https://AhmadAwais.com/talks">Conference Speaking</a> &#8211; </strong>Talks and keynotes at 160+ conferences<br />
496<strong><a href="https://x.com/MrAhmadAwais/status/1931754386835034131">Best Speaker Award: </a></strong><a href="https://x.com/MrAhmadAwais/status/1931754386835034131">AI.Engineer Conf </a><a href="https://x.com/MrAhmadAwais/status/1931754386835034131">San Francisco</a><strong><br />
497Recent</strong>: Google I/O, GitHub Universe, OpenAI DevDay, Microsoft AI Tour, Anthropic Code Conf, AI.Engineer, TEDx, Node Summit, React Live, Next.js Conf, Google Dev Summit and more at <a href="https://AhmadAwais.com/talks"><strong>/talks</strong></a> page (want me to speak at your event? here&#8217;s my <a href="https://ahmadawais.com/bio/">bio press-kit page</a> and <a href="https://ahmadawais.com/speaker-terms/">speaker terms</a>)</p>
498<p class="text-lg font-bold text-text-100 mt-1 -mb-1.5"><strong>Published Author</strong><br />
499<strong>Blogging</strong> since 2001, 160M+ page views<br />
500<strong>Smashing Magazine</strong> &#8211; Expert Panel Member and author<br />
501<strong>Featured Author</strong> &#8211; CSS-Tricks, Tuts+, Scotch.io, SitePoint, HBR<br />
502<a href="https://Awais.dev/odmt"><strong>#OneDevMinute</strong></a> &#8211; Daily developer tips on 𝕏 (Twitter)</p>
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504Professional Background<a href="#professional-background" class="heading-link">#</a></h3>
505<p class="whitespace-normal break-words">Before founding Command Code and Langbase, Ahmad served as <strong>Vice President of DevTools &amp; Developer Relations Engineering at RapidAPI</strong> (acquired by Nokia), where he led initiatives to democratize API development. Previously at WGA, he shaped WordPress enterprise solutions while making early angel investments in companies like Resend, Gumroad, and FinktankS.</p>
506<p class="whitespace-normal break-words">His career spans engineering leadership roles focused on developer experience and open-source innovation. There&#8217;s more on his <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/MrAhmadAwais/">LinkedIn</a>.</p>
507<h3 class="text-xl font-bold text-text-100 mt-1 -mb-0.5" class="text-xl font-bold text-text-100 mt-1 -mb-0.5" id="philosophy">Philosophy<a href="#philosophy" class="heading-link">#</a></h3>
508<p class="whitespace-normal break-words">&#8220;I believe software should be elegant, not just adequate. Development should be thoughtful, not just fast. Great tools should make developers more powerful, not more dependent. <a href="https://www.highagency.com/">High agency</a> over dependency.</p>
509<p>And yes, Purple isn&#8217;t just a color—<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQt5B1GsTsg">your brain literally invents purple when you see it</a>, for <a href="https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ahmadawais.shades-of-purple&amp;ssr=false#review-details">many developers</a> it represents the intersection of creativity and logic that drives great engineering.&#8221;</p>
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514<p><strong>Satya Nadella</strong>, CEO of Microsoft: Featured <a href="https://x.com/MrAhmadAwais/">Ahmad Awais</a> for his <a href="https://github.com/AhmadAwais">open-source work</a> and <a href="https://ahmadawais.com/my-open-source-code-contribution-to-nasas-ingenuity-helicopter-goes-to-mars/">contribution to Mars Helicopter Mission 2020</a></p>
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