Amin Shah Gilani

I wrote this sample app as a follow-along to a tutorial on how a bank could use Ruby on Rails to create a well-functioning back end. Later, I discovered ways to improve this baseline code and used it in my live app.

A crowd-sourced effort to eradicate forced child begging.

In Pakistan, it is common to see young children, under the age of 15, who are forced to beg on the streets by their parents or a faceless mafia. Only in Pakistan are these future doctors, engineers, and entrepreneurs ignored by every citizen that passes them.

We wanted to help eliminate this terrible practice, but imagine our surprise, when we discovered that a law already exists to curb it. This SDG Hackathon gave us the ability to use our technology for good.

As citizens of Pakistan and as human beings, we asked ourselves why there are children still begging on the streets when there are strict laws protecting them and seemingly well-performing government organizations.

We realized greater civilian reporting and oversight of these organizations is all that remains to be improved upon so we started doing just that with technology.

Counterarguments to the most common reasons against using Git.

Despite Git being ubiquitous among organizations and teams, I’ve met a surprising number of people in Pakistan that don’t use version control. It makes it incredibly difficult for me to collaborate with them.

An article that I wrote that discusses how a Rails' Webpack integration lets us tap into the world of JavaScript dependencies and bypass the "use CSS helpers" annoyance in the asset pipeline.