Summary
Eftakhairul Islam is a Senior Software Engineer based in Montreal with 15+ years of experience building high-availability, low-latency distributed systems across gaming, ad tech, and fintech. He has led architecture and delivery efforts at Unity and GoodRx, designing scalable backend services (Golang, Kafka, Redis) and automated observability pipelines that achieved six-nines uptime for multiplayer hosting. As a former co-founder and engineering lead, he combines product-minded entrepreneurship with hands-on implementation of BaaS and payout platforms, and has repeatedly driven CI/CD, telemetry, and legacy modernization initiatives. A tech blogger and open source enthusiast, he balances deep systems expertise with mentoring and process improvements that reduce operational risk. Notably, he has built orchestration and payload-store solutions optimized for bare-metal performance—an uncommon focus in cloud-first teams.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc), Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc), Electrical and Electronic Engineering at BRAC University
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Computer Software Engineering, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Computer Software Engineering at Concordia University
Certification Course, Rapid Design of eLearning Programs, Certification Course, Rapid Design of eLearning Programs at Global Distance Learning Network (GDLN)
English