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1000 Mentorship Minutes

My articles got a total of 325k+ views with 35k+ appreciations to this date. My notable writings include Data structures, design patterns, and software engineering topics. I'm a member of several Medium publications including 'Better Programming', 'CodeBurst', etc. I'm also the Founder and Editor of a publication called 'প্রোগ্রামিং পাতা' which is focused to teach technology in simplified form in the Bangla language. Profile: https://medium.com/@me_shaon

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Mentored 650+ minutes with 100% positive reviews from my mentees. It’s a fulfilling experience to help junior developers and give something back to the community where I belong. I'm mostly mentoring Junior developers about careers, software engineering, job preparation, and any kind of confusion/questions regarding software development. Profile link: https://adplist.org/mentors/ahmed-shamim

Mentor

Bangladesh Japan Information Technology (BJIT), Globalgeeks, and the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Dhaka organized an inter-university hackathon celebrating 50 years of Japan-Bangladesh friendship. I was one of the Judging Panel members for the final round of the contest. Hackthon website: https://codesamuraibd.net/

Judge (Code Samurai 2022 Hackathon)

Diploma of Education

Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.)

Higher Secondary Certificate

- Engineered the Hiring module of MyZenTeam from front-end to back-end services single-handedly which managed 15k+ candidate applications.
- Designed a system to achieve Email sync and communication with candidates from the MyZenTeam dashboard leading to reducing the communication overhead of the HR team by 200%.

Software Engineer II

- Architecting and developing a freelance marketplace with an existing user base of hundreds of customers.
- Managing the overall product lifecycle from requirement analysis to deployment.
- Optimizing critical areas for performance and scalability while implementing new features.

Software Development Lead

- Managed and led a group of 5 developers focusing on Web and mobile development. - Developed an inventory and sales management system for a company producing $1M+ revenue per year. - Helped a govt. organization to reduce their complaints and feedback response time from days to minutes by building a complaint and feedback management system. - Developed a survey management system for an NGO to reduce 35% of manual workforce costs for collecting surveys.

Co-Founder

Tech advisor

- Improved execution time from a few seconds to only a few hundred milliseconds by implementing caching strategies to reduce a lot of queries.
- Effectively detected and mitigated a DoS attack.
- Completed the multiple modules restructuring within 2 months to reach the product roadmap.
- Integrated third-party APIs and webhooks including Zapier, Slack, MailerLite, MailerSend, and Mailgun.
- Managed CI/CD pipeline using Github actions to swiftly deploy product updates and fixes within minutes.
- Improved the engineering process by writing documentation for incident reports, engineering workflows, onboarding guides, etc, and accelerated team productivity by ~2x.

Senior Software Engineer

First hire on the development team of the product called ‘MyZenTeam’. Architected a full-featured Hiring ‘Saas product’ from a hackathon project and helped to grow the team.

Software Engineer

- Developed new features and support the core monolithic service which served one of the largest European telecom company, UAB Tele2, having 1M+ users.
- Improved the performance of the legacy codebase.
- Performed code reviews to ensure high-quality clean code.

- Designed and worked on an internal Kanban-based project management tool to serve 150+ users. - Led a back-end development team of 7 members. - Steered the development of Back-end API and services for several products using Laravel and Lumen.

- Created an MVP of Airbnb competitor using MERN stack.
- Developed a ’Guest tracking app’ utilizing Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) device to detect users in events.

Conducting a cohort-based 'Laravel Career Path' course, guiding over 200 participants to prepare for successful industry careers.

Topics covered:
PHP basics, OOP in PHP, OOP design principles, Clean code practices, PHP CLI vs PHP FPM, building an MVC framework from scratch etc. 
Laravel basics like Routing, Controller, View, Eloquent ORM, DB Query builder, Blade templating, Validation etc. 
Laravel advanced concepts like Kernel, Service container, Service provider, Facade, Middleware, Auth mechanisms, Error handling, Logging, Debugging, Authorization techniques, RESTful API development, Consuming API, Webhook, Mail, Event, Notifications, Broadcasting, Queue, Job, Task scheduling, Testing, Scaling a Laravel app, Multi-tenancy in Laravel etc. 

The course is designed to be interactive and a balance between conceptual discussion along with practical assignments to gain enough expertise to implement the learning in real-life development.

Course Instructor

Conducted a live cohort-based course to teach Problem-solving, Data structures, and algorithms to around 200+ university students and industry professionals. 

The topics covered:
Array, Linked List, Stack, Queue, String, Sorting, Searching, Recursion, Tree, Greedy algorithms, Graph algorithms, Dynamic programming, Backtracking, Heap, BST, Trie etc.

Solving around 100 problems in platforms like LeetCode, HackerRank, and Interviewbit to prepare for coding interviews.

Pathao is the local market leader in motor-bike-based ride-sharing, on-demand food delivery, and logistics in Bangladesh with a market valuation of over $100M+.

- Implemented RESTful APIs of core Rides Service using Laravel and Lumen frameworks serving 6M+ users.
- Built web services for document upload and verification for 2M+ users.
- Advanced the development of new features for the rider management system used by 100+ support agents to process thousands of users' data daily.
- Introduced a platform for managing ‘Fraud search queries’ and taking actions against ‘fraudulent activities’ within minutes using Django and Django REST framework.

Senior software engineer @Kahf | Laravel contributor | Writer

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