Arafat Islam
Senior Software Engineer at Freelance
Dhaka, Dhaka Division, Bangladesh
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Top SchoolArafat Islam is a founder and backend-focused senior software engineer with six years of experience building scalable SaaS platforms and leading engineering teams from Dhaka. He has deep expertise in PHP/Laravel and TypeScript/Node ecosystems, having architected and maintained microservice backends using Postgres, MongoDB, RabbitMQ and Docker while contributing to React/Next frontends. At weDevs he led development of Dokan Cloud and managed an eight-engineer team, balancing hands-on coding, PR reviews, technical direction, and client-facing problem discovery. He has startup leadership experience as CTO/CEO and now runs XeroWP, combining product instincts with executional rigor. Comfortable crossing backend, frontend and DevOps boundaries, he is especially strong at turning complex e-commerce requirements into reliable multi-tenant services. Academically grounded with an MS in CSE, he pairs formal training with practical, client-facing engineering.
6 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (Engineering) Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Science (Engineering) Computer Science and Engineering at Pabna University of Science and Technology, PabnaMaster of Science (Engineering) Computer Science and Engineering, Master of Science (Engineering) Computer Science and Engineering at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
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Github Skills (73)
string-validation10
permalinks10
expressjs10
sanitize10
javascript10
laravel10
validation10
database10
entity10
typescript-orm10
sqlite10
sql-server10
sanitization10
libsql10
unit-of-work10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
arafatkn/quizzy
Oct 2021 - Oct 2021
Quiz website built with Laravel.
Contributions:110 commits, 4 PRs, 6 pushes in 19 days
laravel
getdokan/dokan-ui
Jan 2025 - Sep 2025
Re-usable React UI components for Dokan Cloud and similar projects.
Contributions:11 releases, 7 reviews, 9 PRs in 8 months
dokanreactui-components
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