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I'm a principal engineer highly experienced with Web, Cloud, and AI; with a deep focus on real-time and distributed applications. In my free time, I build open-source tools, write at shyr.io, and answer questions on Stack Overflow. I'm also the co-founder of GDG Lahore, the largest developer community of Pakistan.
Official Elixir Website • ThinkingElixir Podcast • ElixirWeekly • ElixirConf • Google Developers
- Top 5 on Stack Overflow from Pakistan (76k+ rep, 7.4M+ reach, 400+ badges)
- ~4M+ package downloads (2.4M+ on Hex, 1.4M+ on RubyGems, and a few on others)
- 2.5k+ GitHub stars across personal projects
- Interviewed by José Valim for the official Elixir case study on Slab
- Co-founded GDG Lahore, the largest developer community in Pakistan
- Spoke at ElixirConf, DevFest, Google I/O Extended and a bunch of Google Cloud events
- 💾 Memento (800+ stars, 750k+ downloads) - Elixir interface to the Mnesia distributed database (docs)
- ⚡ Que (680+ stars, 480k+ downloads) - Simple job processing with Mnesia (post)
- 📝 Delta (370+ stars) - Data-format to describe rich-text documents and their changes (post)
- 🔥 mongo-sync (300+ stars) - Sync remote and local MongoDB (post)
- 📦 dotfiles (130+ stars) - Configs and dotfiles
- 🧰 ExUtils (650k+ downloads) - Helpers and shortcuts I kept copying between projects
- ☁️ CloudUp (100+ stars) - Tools to jump-start development on the cloud (post)
- 🙌 BetterParams (90+ stars, 440k+ downloads) - Easy param usage in Phoenix (post)
- 🔆 werewolf.nvim - Neovim theme auto-switcher, sync to system theme changes or external events
- 🎉 EctoRut (110+ stars, 55k+ downloads) - Ecto model shortcuts (post)
- 📄 yaml - YAML parsing and encoding in Elixir
- 🧬 Catalyst - Codemods, generation and scaffolding for Elixir
- 📡 DBFS (60+ stars) - Distributed file storage on a blockchain (talk)
- 🛠️ capistrano-rake (40+ stars, 1.4M+ downloads) - Run rake tasks on remote servers
- 📈 github-trending (40+ stars, 12k+ downloads) - Fetch trending GitHub repos (post)
- 🐰 ZTD (20+ stars) - Distributed todo app over RabbitMQ
- 📱 explay (15+ stars) - Google Play API in Elixir
- 💎 mongo-sync-ruby (15+ stars, 6k+ downloads) - mongo-sync as a gem (post)
- 💬 Simple Phoenix Chat (10+ stars) - Real-time chat with Phoenix Channels (post)
- 🔐 cipherjs (10+ stars, 6k+ downloads) - Classic ciphers in JavaScript
- ✍️ Collab (10+ stars) - Real-time collaborative editor with Operational Transform (ElixirConf talk)
- 🖥️ vncviewer - Open VNC from the terminal on macOS
- 🌐 httpcodes.co - Quick reference for HTTP status codes and verbs
- 🗺️ GeoBounds - Geospatial bounding boxes in Elixir
- ⚛️ EctoAtomizedMap - Atom keys for Ecto schema maps
- 📬 ExGun - Mailgun client for Elixir
- 🏗️ rmd-template - Rails + Mongoid + Devise starter
- Disciplined Vibes: Scaling AI-Assisted Engineering
- Scaling AI Applications with Kubernetes
- FLAME: Better Serverless Architecture with Kubernetes
- Real-Time Collaboration with Operational Transform
- All talks
