Ahmad Awais

Google Developers Expert Head of Developer Relations

at RapidAPI

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, 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, SitePoint. You can mostly find ​him on Twitter @MrAhmadAwais, where he tweets his #OneDevMinute developer tips.​