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Md Obydullah

Senior Software Engineer

Remote · Worldwidehi@obydul.meobydul.meGitHubLinkedIn

Summary

9+ years building and operating production systems. Lead engineer at Electronic First (electronicfirst.com) for the last 5+ years. Strong on backend, AWS at scale, security, and applied AI. Currently shipping AI features into real products without losing what already works.

Experience

Electronic First

Remote (employer based in Fujairah, UAE) · Full-time, 9+ years

Jan 2017 – Present

Lead Software Engineer · 5+ yrs

Jan 2021 – Present
  • Lead a 9-person distributed engineering team across Bangladesh and India. Reviewed 400+ CVs and personally hired 7 developers.
  • Own production AWS for 6+ years end-to-end: EKS, RDS Multi-AZ, ECR, Cloudflare. Cost-first scaling: offload logs to S3 + ClickHouse instead of upsizing the writer.
  • Defended the platform against multi-million-hit bot / DDoS attacks; tuned Cloudflare WAF by hand. Run own pentests; found and fixed cart session hijack and rate-limit gaps.
  • Designed and shipped Pulse: internal multi-platform AI agent on OpenAI's tool-use API. TypeScript, Node 22+, adapter pattern, typed tools per capability. Live on Discord, Telegram + WhatsApp planned.
  • Built Go microservices on EKS that replaced legacy Laravel jobs: Merchant Center Feeds (queries 2M → 240, full sync 7d → 10min, image 200MB → 20MB), Provider Price Sync (auto-routes cheapest supplier across 4 external APIs), Product Feeds Generator (60s → 20s/feed, RDS CPU 99% → negligible).
  • Multi-country operating environment: weekly leadership syncs in English with London-based senior management; team and partners across UK, UAE, BD, IN, PH, EG.

Laravel Developer · 2 yrs

Jan 2019 – Dec 2020
  • Solo-rebuilt electronicfirst.com from WordPress to Laravel. Ran WordPress in parallel for ~1 year for a safe, feature-by-feature migration. Zero-data-loss cutover.
  • Built the core platform features that the team I now lead continues to extend.

WordPress Developer · 2 yrs

Jan 2017 – Dec 2018
  • Maintained and extended the legacy WordPress storefront and prepared the ground for the Laravel migration.

Upwork

Remote · Freelance

Sep 2017 – Jan 2020
  • Top Rated freelancer. Web and Android delivery for international clients.

Fiverr

Remote · Freelance

Nov 2016 – Jan 2020
  • Level 2 seller. Web and Android delivery for international clients.

Makpie

Bangladesh · Co-Founder

Apr 2016 – Dec 2020
  • Co-founded Bangladesh's first blood-donor search engine. Built the product, ran it, and shut it down deliberately rather than letting it rot. Owned a product end-to-end including the unglamorous part.

Skills

Programming
GoTypeScriptJavaScriptPythonPHPSQLHTML / CSSBash
Backend
LaravelNestJSDjangoFastAPIFlaskExpress
Cloud & DevOps
AWS (EKS, RDS, S3, SQS, ECR, Lambda)KubernetesArgo CDTerraformDockerGitHub ActionsCloudflare
Databases & Data
MySQLPostgreSQLRedisClickHouseDynamoDBKafkaAirflowDebezium
AI / ML
OpenAI tool-useLangChainLlamaIndexRAG pipelinesVector DBs (Pinecone, Qdrant, pgvector)MCP / FastMCPHugging Face
Security
CEH v12 (course)Cloudflare WAFBurp SuitePentesting (own platform)Web app security
Observability
GrafanaLokiPrometheusDatadogSentryPostHog
Frontend
Next.jsVue.jsTailwindCSS

Education

Daffodil International University

BSc, Computer Science & Engineering · Dhaka, Bangladesh

May 2014 – May 2018

Languages

  • English · Professional (daily work with London-based senior leadership)
  • Bengali · Native

Certifications

  • Certified Ethical Hacker v12 · EC-CouncilCourse completed (full syllabus). Did not sit the exam.

Selected projects