Bangladesh

Ahmed Shamim

Senior software engineer

Introduce yourself, define mentoring expectations and goals. Learn and grow together.

General mentorship

Making remote and globally distributed teams work for you and your needs.

Working remotely

Understanding factors that lead to a motivated team - recognition, communication and more.

Keeping team members motivated

Steps to building and maintaining a strong, cohesive and effective team.

Building an effective team

Decision making as a software engineer or lead - how to become better at making the right choices

Making better tech choices

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Resume and portfolio review

Learn the best ways to answer technical interview questions with frameworks

Acing technical interview questions

How to successfully prepare and position yourself for a job promotion?

How to get promoted

How to ask for a promotion and negotiate for salary raise?

Negotiating a job offer

How to define and execute a successful launch and managing stakeholders expectations. (eg. MVP)

Launching new products or features

Methods of prototyping and solution validation. When to use which kind of prototype (eg. Webflow, Notion, etc)

Prototyping methods and tips

Manage team expectations and get the most out of your meetings.

Running effective meetings

Identify and define potential product problems and generating possible solutions.

Identifying problems vs solutions

Learn how to properly present your work and share ideas and opinions.

Presenting your work with impact

Tips on how to work and collaborate with engineers and developers.

Working with engineers

What is a successful user onboarding flow and how to achieve it?

Onboarding new users

Conducting a cohort-based 'Laravel career path' course for 170+ participants to prepare them for the industry.

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.

Conducting 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.

- 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.

- 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%.

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.

- 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.

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.

- 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.

- 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.

- 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.

Ahmed Shamim🇧🇩