Who is Junaid Mahmood?

Junaid Mahmood is an 18-year-old software developer from Toronto, Canada. He currently works as an intern on the Payments team at Wealthsimple. He is the creator of nlsh (a CLI tool with 300+ GitHub stars and ~10,000 downloads), Vector (an AI game engine), and Esprit (AI agents for pentesting).

nlsh (Natural Language Shell) is an open-source command-line tool created by Junaid Mahmood that translates plain English into shell commands. It has over 300 stars on GitHub, approximately 10,000 downloads, and was ranked #4 on Product Hunt, featured in their daily newsletter 'Terminal of the Future'.

What projects has Junaid Mahmood built?

Junaid Mahmood has built several notable projects including: nlsh (Natural Language Shell, 300+ GitHub stars), Vector (an AI game engine built on Godot), Esprit (AI agents for pentesting and cybersecurity), Pinnacle Sniper (a Solana token sniper bot), DevSpark (gamifying programming like Duolingo for coders), Wisphr (an invisible AI screen reader), and more. He also taught programming with the City of Toronto at age 16 and ran Digital Works, a web development agency.

Where does Junaid Mahmood work?

Junaid Mahmood is an intern on the Payments team at Wealthsimple, a Canadian fintech company. He previously ran Digital Works, a web development and SEO agency, and taught programming with the City of Toronto.

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