Kamran Ahmed

makers.ae is the community of developers and designers in UAE focusing on open-source, practical knowledge, tech culture, career growth and connecting the developers. There are some really talented developers and designers in the region but unlike Europe or US, the community isn't really strong here in UAE. With makers.ae our aim is to bring all the makers of the region together under one umbrella and to facilitate growth.

Roadmap.sh is an OpenSource website where I post the roadmaps crafted by me as well as the community helping the developers pick their path, learn, and improve. Also, I have been producing weekly graphical guides on the complex topics and recording videos on the associated youtube channel. The project is quite famous and gets visited by hundreds of thousands of developers every month.

In this video, I explain what the DNS records are and cover some of the commonly used DNS records.

In this visual explanation of DNS, I explain what the DNS is and how it works in finding a website on the internet.

In this series of videos, I teach different tips and tricks while using TypeScript that can be used to write better TypeScript types.

In this beginner-focused video, I explain the basics of System Design covering all the bits and pieces of System Design.

In this video, I explain the usage of JavaScript Fetch API.

In this series of lessons, I explain how to write powerful data transformation logics using MongoDB's Aggregation framework.

In this video, I take a hypothetical example of an application and explain the different issues that can happen in a production application and how to solve them.

iTomate is an iTerm utility that lets you define your iTerm layouts, commands to execute in the form of YAML files, and run a single command to have iTerm prepare itself for you to start working.

Developer roadmap is a set of charts to help the developers learn, provide the landscape, guide them, help them pick their path, and know what they don’t know and improve. I created this project to help others with the struggle that I was once in. I have been maintaining it for the past 4 years where I release a new version showing the changes to the landscape for the past year. The project is the 11th most starred project on GitHub, and gets around 6 to 7000 unique hits on a daily basis.

In this video, I explain what the promises in JavaScript are and how to use them to write asynchronous code.

In this video, I explain what GitHub actions are and how to automate your workflows with GitHub Actions.

I organized this online talk on the topic of React Components. It was an online event and there were around 50 attendees.

In this video, I explain what is dependency injection and we also look at the benefits and how to use dependency injection in your applications.

In this video, I explain what the CSS variables are and how to write scalable CSS using them.

In this talk, I spoke about the JAMStack, discussing the evolution of the Web and how it has evolved over time and how the "modern" web looks like.

In this video, I first explain what is DOM, and then we look at the different types of DOM and understand the differences between the DOM types.

Copy Marker allows you to select some text on page, right click and "Copy Marker URL" which will copy the URL with your selection information embedded in the URL. You can share it with someone and when they open that URL it will automatically highlight the selection you made and scroll the user to that section of the page.

In this series of videos, I teach the basics of React with a practical example of a react application.

I spoke about my OpenSource journey, explain the benefits of OpenSource, how to get started and how to get the word out for your OpenSource projects.

An express package that lets you handle the API problems with ease. It provides a straightforward implementation of IETF Problem Specification and turns your thrown exceptions to be returned in the below format with the header of content type set to application/problem+json.