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Ahmad Awais

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Ahmad Awais
CEO & Co-Founder of
Command Code (2023)
About

Ahmad Awais is Founder and CEO at Command Code, a frontier coding agent that continuously learns developer coding preferences using meta neuro-symbolic AI. He is an award-winning open-source engineering leader whose code contributed to NASA's Mars Ingenuity Helicopter mission.

Before founding

Ahmad studied Electrical Engineering and later switched to Computer Science, creating 300+ open-source projects used by millions of developers globally. He previously served as VP of Developer Relations at RapidAPI, building DevRel from $0 to $272M funding to $1B valuation.

Founder Insights

Ahmad is a founding member of Google Developers Advisory Board (gDAB), received 5x GitHub Stars Award (8th out of 100M+ developers), and is a 6x Google Developers Expert. He authored Shades of Purple theme (5M+ users) and corona-cli (20+ billion requests), and successfully influenced Meta to open-source React under MIT license.

Experience

Command Code raised $5M seed funding led by GitHub co-founder Tom Preston-Werner, with backing from 30+ tech leaders including Apple's CFO. The company previously operated as Langbase, a serverless AI cloud platform for building AI agents with tools and memory.

Scale & Impact

Ahmad's open-source tools generate 50-100 million downloads annually, his StackOverflow answers helped 9.5 million developers, and he taught 108K+ developers through NodeCLI.com and VSCode.pro courses. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella called him an awesome example for developers in a keynote address.

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Ahmad Awais

Command Code
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Ahmad Awais

Company(s)

Command Code

Industry

SaaS

Year Founded

2023

Stage/Funding

Seed • $5M

Company Location

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About

Ahmad Awais is Founder and CEO at Command Code, a frontier coding agent that continuously learns developer coding preferences using meta neuro-symbolic AI. He is an award-winning open-source engineering leader whose code contributed to NASA's Mars Ingenuity Helicopter mission.

Before founding

Ahmad studied Electrical Engineering and later switched to Computer Science, creating 300+ open-source projects used by millions of developers globally. He previously served as VP of Developer Relations at RapidAPI, building DevRel from $0 to $272M funding to $1B valuation.

Founder Insights

Ahmad is a founding member of Google Developers Advisory Board (gDAB), received 5x GitHub Stars Award (8th out of 100M+ developers), and is a 6x Google Developers Expert. He authored Shades of Purple theme (5M+ users) and corona-cli (20+ billion requests), and successfully influenced Meta to open-source React under MIT license.

Experience

Command Code raised $5M seed funding led by GitHub co-founder Tom Preston-Werner, with backing from 30+ tech leaders including Apple's CFO. The company previously operated as Langbase, a serverless AI cloud platform for building AI agents with tools and memory.

Scale & Impact

Ahmad's open-source tools generate 50-100 million downloads annually, his StackOverflow answers helped 9.5 million developers, and he taught 108K+ developers through NodeCLI.com and VSCode.pro courses. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella called him an awesome example for developers in a keynote address.

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