I’m Ahmed Ammar, A Software Engineer who loves PHP and Laravel.
Hi everyone 👋
I’ve been in web development for over 8 years. I love PHP and Laravel. but I’ve already worked with several languages throughout my career like Go, Java, Python, and Ruby. besides my work. I love contributing to opensource. my contributions are distributed in several well-known projects in the PHP world.
- Symfony
- Laravel
- Laravel Valet
- Laravel Excel
- Spatie
- PHPStan
- and many other PRs.
Side Projects
- Mersli A cli tool to generate a slide from mermaid diagrams.
- Build Redis from scratch A series of articles on creating a Redis-compatible in-memory database using Golang.
- RapidSnap macos app to capture & beautify screenshots.
- Blade autocomplete is a sublime plugin to autocomplete @extends and @sections blade directives. and it has +70k downloads
- Leetcode Alfred workflow an Alfred workflow to help query leetcode questions.
- JS JSON Parser playing with the concepts of parsers and interpreters I built this little toy.
Packages
- Sentimento Laravel package that provides sentiment analysis capabilities using OpenAI’s GPT to easily analyze text-based data and gain insight into the underlying sentiment.
- Image Restoration Laravel uses Replicate’s Image Restoration model to restore and enhance images.
- Laravel Facebook Poster This package makes it easy to post to Facebook using Laravel notification channels.
- Ratelimit is a Rate limiter written in Go that has been used in a high traffic distributed production service with up to +18k RPM.
- Deep Symbols a Neovim plugin provides a better alternative to LSP document symbols.
Sharing knowledge
- From time to time I love sharing my tech knowledge. so you can find my articles on ahmedash.dev
- I’ve my youtube channel where I talk about advanced PHP and Laravel stuff
Contact
For work-related stuff feel free to contact me on Twitter or Linkedin