Jan 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 4 mos · Dhaka, Bangladesh · Hybrid

Jul 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 10 mos · Hybrid

• Leading the team in implementing a quality-driven software development process.
• Spearheaded the development of multiple flagship products in the WordPress ecosystem.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure successful product development and delivery.

Jan 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 4 mos

Jul 2022 – Jul 2024 · 2 yrs · Remote

• Led the development of social media strategy and growth initiatives for Backpack for Laravel, resulting in a 25% increase in engagement.
• Collaborated with leadership team to assist in content planning and business strategy development.
• Contributed to the development of open-source and paid packages to meet the needs of diverse product needs.

Jan 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 4 mos

• Led the team at FIGLAB in implementing a quality-driven software development process.
• Developed several open-source and commercial software to meet diverse customer needs.
• Collaborated with leadership to assist in content planning and business strategy development.

Jan 2021 – Jun 2022 · 1 yr 5 mos · Remote

Jan 2020 – Present · 6 yrs 4 mos

• Leading the technical side of the business by aligning strategy and technology for the best customer experience.

Apr 2018 – Sep 2019 · 1 yr 5 mos · Greater Brisbane Area

• Designed, developed, & shipped a fully refactored OpenAPI-based API layer.
• Streamlined email creation using the MJML template engine & delivery by AWS Lambda.
• Integrated Stripe-based payment & refund solution between two business units using.

Oct 2015 – Dec 2020 · 5 yrs 2 mos · Dhaka, Bangladesh

• Headed a technical team of 20 to develop products that were rolled out to 30+ enterprise clients
• Architected & developed an Enterprise Document Management System (EDMS) for large corporations to reduce their paper cost to nearly zero, increase work efficiency by 30% and reduce document retrieval time to <3 secs.
• Developed a Process Automation solution to allow banking clients to work on business processes across multiple branches along with routing, approvals, data entry, file uploads, and integration with external systems. Customers have reported a 300-400% time saving and 80% reduction in process errors.
• Developed & Scaled a KYC Management System (KMS) for bKash, which has reduced their operational error rates from 30% to nearly zero and allowed serving 25% more customers. The solution handles 50M+ customer data, allows 250+ personnel to perform their daily work, and handles up to 100 QPS.
• Tech: PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, Symfony, Laravel, Redis, Memcached, ETL, REST API, AWS, ML & AI

Mar 2013 – Sep 2013 · 6 mos · Dhaka, Bangladesh

• Planned and documented the Software Architecture document
• Upgraded National Portal Framework architecture
• Conducted training of master trainers
• Organized discussions, workshops, and seminars for internal and external integrators

Mar 2012 – Mar 2014 · 2 yrs · Montreal, Canada Area

• Headed the software development team of 10 full-time developers
• Designed and proposed an SOA-based Solution Architecture for Loosemonkies.com
• Assisted executive team in planning and prioritizing product features
• Designed and developed a backend API using Symfony, MySQL, and MongoDB
• Implemented search and autocomplete functionality using Elasticsearch
• Managed the full infrastructure based on Amazon AWS (EC2, S3, ElastiCache, RDS, SES, ELB)
• Tech: PHP, MySQL, Symfony, AWS, Backbone.js, Payza

Nov 2007 – Mar 2008 · 4 mos · Bangladesh

• Developed several Facebook based RPG games using PHP, JavaScript, Facebook SDK
• Developed custom client projects using PHP, CodeIgniter, MySQL
• Mentored development team members
• Tech: PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, Facebook SDK

Jan 2007 – Jan 2015 · 8 yrs · Bangladesh

• Co-founded the company, CTO from the beginning
• Headed the Engineering team, grew it up to 20 developers, shipped many apps & services
• Developed & scaled the Toronto.com portal to 10M visits/mo using WordPress and Varnish
• Developed & scaled Wheels.ca, Canada's largest automobile portal to 8M visits/mo
• Designed & deployed a 28-server AWS infrastructure with auto-failover & full redundancy
• Architected & Developed Bangladesh National Portal – a centralized government portal framework serving 5000+ inter-connected portals from a multi-tenant platform based on Drupal
• Tech: PHP, JavaScript, MySQL, MongoDB, Memcached, Redis, Varnish, Apache Solr, Elasticsearch, Drupal, WordPress, Zend Framework, Symfony, Backbone.js, SOA, REST API, AWS

May 2006 – Jun 2007 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bangladesh

• Developed a number of flakes (mini-apps served as dashboard widgets).
• Streamlined internal task & issue management through customer workflow.
• Troubleshooting of community flakes that needed care.
• Tech: PHP, MySQL, JavaScript

May 2005 – Oct 2006 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bangladesh

• Developed the first-ever community blogging platform in Asia
• Developed several custom CMS for customers.
• Tech: PHP, MySQL, Smarty, Memcached, CodeIgniter, WordPress

Jan 2002 – Apr 2005 · 3 yrs 3 mos

• Worked in both Desktop and Web platform and built solutions for more than 25 clients from all over the world.