Mohammad Sajid Anwar

Mohammad Sajid Anwar is an India-born software developer now based in the United Kingdom. His career in technology began in Jamshedpur and later took him to Mumbai before he settled in London in 2000, building his expertise through the dot-com boom and its aftermath. With a background in mathematics, he has focused much of his technical work on elegant, reliable solutions in Perl.

Sajid is a prolific CPAN author (PAUSE id MANWAR), known especially for the Map::Tube ecosystem for modelling urban transport networks, extensive calendrical libraries, and tools for the Dancer2 web framework. In 2023 he received the White Camel Award for outstanding service to the Perl community. He founded and runs The Weekly Challenge and has served as a co-editor of the Perl Weekly newsletter for more than six years.