Building solutions with open source.
👋 Hi! I'm Najam Ahmed , a full-stack developer from Pakistan, super into Open Source, and working as a Technical writer for international brands.
🔥 I have worked with more than 8 international teams like dreamslab, autopartify, Wing, Latitude, reaching an audience of over 350k. If you need a technical writer, DM me on Twitter or LinkedIn.
📈 I'm also building my community for open source developers and technical writers at dub.sh/penduDev.
🔖 As a top author on dev.to/, my content has been featured in prestigious communities like GitHub, resulting in a follower base of over 30k+ within 6 months.
🚀 I've established myself in the Top 5% of GitHub by contributing to 40+ projects with 200+ Pull Requests, participating in 500+ discussions, and earning a lot of reputation.
🎓 A 100% scholar in CS, I've played a crucial role as a maintainer & contributor of autopartify to turn it into an open source success story.
🤝 I have learned a lot about the Open Source ecosystem during the past 2 years so I'm guiding others to start their journey with open source in multiple communities on Discord & WhatsApp.
🎁 I create helpful tips on open source, write about 2 open source projects daily, and a lot more to help you grow "1% every day" on Twitter and LinkedIn. Be sure to follow me there for daily insightful tips!
🏆 I secured 11th Rank in GSSoC'23 (contributor) with 100+ PRs, did mentoring for WebXDAO, and created content as a core team member (GSSoC'23 Team) for 200k+ audiences.
🎯 I built designlyfe.tech in Buildspace Season 4 and will continue working on more open source projects. Watch my journey of 6 weeks here. You can also check my open source resource on Product Hunt that received 50+ upvotes.
😄 Besides that, I participate in hackathons (won 7+ competitions), make side projects, brainstorm ideas, and keep learning new stuff :)
🏆 Achievements
💜 Competition Zone
- #11 in GSSoC'23 with 100+ PRs.
- Won the Best Beginner Hack in Ingenious Hackathon 5.0.
- Finalist in Manthan, a nationwide competition organized by the Ministry of Education Innovation Cell.
- 3rd Rank in a Avenues 21 conducted by SJMSOM and IIT Bombay on the topic of Vigilance Awareness.
- Top 10 in the national event Smartcase and got a chance to submit Research Proposal.
- 3rd Rank in the United Nations Awareness Quiz (national level) conducted by Helping Hand International, receiving a 30% scholarship in the UN Mentorship Program.
- 3rd Rank (263 contestants) in the MarQuest conducted by MDI Gurgaon under Imperium 2022.
- Pre-final round in Start-O-Thon organized by IEEE CIS Chapter - GHREC, demonstrating the pitch deck with a prototype for the project #DiversityMatters.
- 3rd prize in The Social Variable powered by Connecting Dreams Foundations and Amazon Web Services in a national competition comprising four rounds.
- Finalist in the designathon competition conducted by Delhi Technological University.
- 2nd Prize in Coding Treasure Hunt at college.
- 1st Prize in chess competition at college. I enjoy playing chess :)
- 1200 Rank in National Coding Competition Accio-Wars
- Finalist in Ad-O-Mania, conducted by IIM Ranchi.
💜 GitHub Zone
- 800+ Stars, participated in 500+ Discussions and 200+ Merged PRs.
- Active participant in GitHub Community discussions, answering 35+ discussions.
- Consistently ranked as one of the top 5 Most Helpful members on the GitHub Community discussions for almost a month.
- Recognized as a Top Contributor of LinksHub.
- Open source maintainer of LinksHub with 600+ Stars and 2000+ PRs on GitHub.
- Mentor of WebXDAO under GSSoC'23.
💜 Proud Zone
- Part of the Super 30 Batch, availing a 100% scholarship for pursuing B.Tech CSE (3 students in the entire college)
- 6k+ reputation on Daily.dev.
- Worked with 7+ international teams during the past 2 years.
- Gained more than 10k followers under 3 months on dev.to/.
- Achieved 50 upvotes on my Product Hunt Launch.
Some of the top-performing posts that I recommend you to read.
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✧ Featured in the GitHub Community A complete guide to open source - 100x simpler |
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✧ Featured in the Top 7 Make your portfolio in just 4 hours? It's possible |
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✧ Featured in the Top 7 ✧ Achieved over 20k views with 600+ reactions. 🎁 Shortcut to Find Open Source Projects 100x faster |
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✧ Featured in the Top 7 😁12 things you didn't know you could do with DEV |
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✧ Reached 40k+ Views 30+ app ideas with complete source code |
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I've been active across various platforms, whether it's for learning, creating content, trying the platform, or sharing my progress. I've tried a lot of stuff which is why I have a good knowledge of various domains.
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