Saddam Hossain
Senior Staff Engineer at Pathao
Dhaka, Dhaka Division, Bangladesh
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Top SchoolSaddam Hossain is a Senior Staff Engineer based in Dhaka with 11+ years of hands-on experience building distributed systems, microservices, and event-driven architectures primarily in Golang. He has led core platform and communication services at Pathao—owning authentication, notifications, payments-related systems, and cross-team technical strategy while mentoring engineering teams. An active open-source contributor, he maintains and enhances practical Go libraries and tools (docgen, govalidator, gojsonq) that emphasize developer ergonomics and real-world validation/querying needs. Saddam combines pragmatic code hygiene and long-term architecture thinking, routinely balancing feature velocity with reliability at scale. A less obvious strength is his full-stack fluency—having shipped both backend-critical systems and front-end integrations earlier in his career—which helps him bridge product, QA, and DevOps effectively.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) at Green University of BangladeshHigher Secondary School Certificate, Higher Secondary School Certificate at Amrita Lal Dey College, Barisal
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Github Skills (14)
unit-testing10
markdown10
json10
api-documentation10
postman-collection10
go10
request-validation10
markdown-it10
validation10
validations10
api8
apim8
api-design8
testing7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
thedevsaddam/gojsonq
May 2018 - Mar 2021
A simple Go package to Query over JSON/YAML/XML/CSV Data
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 releases, 100 commits, 36 PRs in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Saddam primarily contributed to the `gojsonq` library by fixing typos, adding "Fixme" comments, and refactoring code. Their work involved modifying the core logic of the library, including changes to sorting and aggregation functions. They also improved test cases and added new methods such as "Copy" and "Distinct", demonstrating a focus on enhancing the library's functionality and maintainability.
querygolangcsvgo-packagego-query
thedevsaddam/thedevsaddam
Jul 2020 - Apr 2022
Contributions:12 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
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