About

I am Ahmed Ammar, a software engineer with more than eight years of experience building web applications. I focus primarily on PHP and Laravel, and I have also worked professionally with Go, Java, Python, and Ruby.

Outside of product work, I contribute to open source across the PHP ecosystem. Selected projects include Symfony, Laravel, Laravel Valet, Laravel Excel, Spatie packages, and PHPStan.

Open source contributions

• Symfony
• Laravel
• Laravel Valet
• Laravel Excel
• Spatie
• PHPStan

Side projects

• Mersli — CLI tool for generating slides from Mermaid diagrams
• Build Redis from scratch — Article series on building a Redis-compatible in-memory database in Go
• RapidSnap — macOS app for capturing and beautifying screenshots
• Laravel Blade Autocomplete — Sublime Text plugin for Blade directives (70k+ downloads )
• LeetCode Alfred workflow — Alfred workflow for querying LeetCode problems
• JS JSON Parser — Educational parser and interpreter experiment

Packages

• Sentimento — Laravel package for sentiment analysis with OpenAI
• Image Restoration — Laravel integration with Replicate’s image restoration model
• Laravel Facebook Poster — Post to Facebook via Laravel notification channels
• Ratelimit — Go rate limiter used in high-traffic production services (18k+ RPM)
• Deep Symbols — Neovim plugin for improved LSP document symbols

Writing

I publish technical articles on ahmedash.dev and share advanced PHP and Laravel topics on YouTube .

Contact

For professional inquiries, reach me on Twitter or LinkedIn .