Afshin Mehrabani is a 21-year old web developer and an open source programmer. He is already a computer software engineering student. He started programming and web development with PHP when he was 12 years old. Later, he entered the Iran Technical and Vocational Training Organization. He received the gold medal in a country-wide competition on web development, and he also became a member of the Iran's National Elite'sFoundation by producing a variety of new programming ideas.

He was a software engineer at the Tehran Stock Exchange and now he is the head of the web development team in the Yara Company. He co-founded the Usablica team in early 2012 to develop and produce usable applications.

He is the programmer of IntroJs, WideArea, NPM.Vim, and some other open source projects. Also, he is contributing to Socket.IO, Engine.IO, and some other open source projects. His interests are in creating and contributing to open source applications, writing programming articles, and challenging with new programming technologies.

He has already written different articles about JavaScript, NodeJs, HTML5, and MongoDB, which are published on different academic websites. Afshin is already contributing to different startups, some of which will help to improve the open source community, making open source code easier and faster.