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Name	Ahmad Awais
About Me	Ahmad Awais is an award-winning open-source engineer and a Google Developers Expert. As a principal developer advocate, he cares deeply about developers and developer experience. Awais has built hundreds of DevTools used by over 2 million developers like his Shades of Purple theme suit. He’s mostly known for his open-source community contribution in the Node.js Community Committee as well as a decade of that in the WordPress Core software (which empowers 1/3rd of the web). He’s a TEDx Speaker, a member of SmashingMagazine Experts Panel, featured/published author at CSS-Tricks, Tuts+, Scotch.io, SitePoint… and a hilarious tech-comedian. You can find Awais most active on Twitter @MrAhmadAwais where he tweets about WebDev, DevRel, his dev tips series #OneDevMinute and cracks silly tech jokes. I am a senior Full Stack WordPress Developer, WP Core Contributor, Front-end Fanatic and an accidental writer. I love to write, talk, build, and share everything about WordPress. You can reach out to me at Twitter @MrAhmadAwais.
Website URL	https://AhmadAwais.com/
WordPress Origin Story	Rock-solid commitment to the WordPress software community, 100+ open source projects, 23,000+ dev-newsletter subscribers, 500,000+ WP plugin/theme downloads, and a status of 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 and 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. TwentySixteen & TwentySeventeen, 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: • Developed modern dev-tooling, boilerplates, & Zero Config JS starter kits • Built MERN Stack (MongoDB, Express, React, Node.js) + WP REST API apps • Developed WPGulp — most popular WordPress + Gulp configuration in the community • WPGulp improves front end development time by 20% via hot-loading, auto bundling, and image optim ► BACK END DEV: • LAMP/LEMP PHP OOP experience • Twig templating, built and extended WordPress APIs • Developed libraries to help WordPress developers write standard code with best practices E.g. snippet libraries for VSCode/Sublime and Oh My ZSH ► WEB OSS CONTRIBUTIONS: • Core contributions to code/docs, fix bugs, and security patches in a variety of community software like Bootstrap, Cobalt2 themes for VSC/Sublime/Slack/iTerm, TitanFramework, Timber, etc. ► DEV RELATIONS: • 100+ FOSS (Free & Open Source Software) projects • 3,700,00 Million views of answers on StackOverflow • ~5,000 Stargazers/Forks/Watching Devs on GitHub (Trending dev)

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Company	WordPress
Job Title	DevRel & Regular WP Core Contributor
Interests	— Giving Back to the community (30% of my product time is spent to give back to my WP Community) — DevOps (Buiding automation scripts and playing around with server APIs & architecture) — End to end Product Developer (Full Stack, Electrical Eng + CS, Focused at WP and now with JS MVC frameworks) — User Experience Design (Spent 4 professional years as a designer) — Talk & Teaching WordPress (I love talking about WP, arranging meetups and speaking at conferences. That’s who I am) — Mentoring and investing in WordPress Startups (Fascinated with business, mentor to some, mentee to others, investor in three small-scale WP startups)
WordPress Usage	Personal, Business