Tanzinul Islam
Quantitative Technology Director
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolTanzinul Islam is a Quantitative Technology Director with nine years of professional engineering experience and a long history of tackling low-level, performance-critical systems in C and C++. He spent 14 years at Bloomberg building resilient data transfer and CI tooling for enterprise trading clients and now leads quantitative tech at Qube Research & Technologies. A pragmatic systems programmer who prefers non-garbage-collected languages, he has contributed portability and build fixes to major cryptography and tooling projects such as OpenSSL and Crypto++ and improved cross-platform test behavior in GoogleTest. Comfortable moving between infrastructure, diagnostics, and automated testing, he combines deep build-system expertise with pragmatic operational instincts honed by hands-on incident work and mentoring. Based in Stony Stratford, his background in electronics and early IT administration gives him a practical edge when bridging hardware-adjacent constraints with high-performance software design.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
GCE O Level Physics Chemistry Pure Mathematics Computing Human Biology Mathematics B English Bengali, GCE O Level Physics Chemistry Pure Mathematics Computing Human Biology Mathematics B English Bengali at The Aga Khan SchoolBSc (Engineering) Electrical & Electronic Engineering, BSc (Engineering) Electrical & Electronic Engineering at Islamic University of TechnologyBEng Electronic Engineering, BEng Electronic Engineering at King's College LondonGCE A Level Physics Chemistry Mathematics, GCE A Level Physics Chemistry Mathematics at Scholastica
English, Bengali
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Github Skills (35)
crypto10
c-language10
system-programming10
testing10
windows10
test-framework10
build-system10
compatibility10
openssl10
cryptography10
compile10
compiler-optimization10
compiler10
cross-compiling10
cprogramming-language10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
openssl/openssl
Oct 2019 - Jul 2021
TLS/SSL and crypto library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / System Architect
Back-end Developer / System ArchitectContributions:23 reviews, 24 commits, 6 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Tanzinul's contributions primarily focused on adapting the OpenSSL library to function correctly on various Windows compilers and build environments, particularly those related to C++Builder (Embarcadero). Their work involved modifying build configurations, generating dependency information, and adjusting code to avoid MSVC-specific functions and inline function issues. The user also made significant changes to handle differences in linker behavior between MSVC and C++Builder, ensuring proper linking and symbol exports.
crypto-librarycryptographyssltlscrypto
google/googletest
Jun 2017 - Aug 2018
GoogleTest - Google Testing and Mocking Framework
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 13 commits, 13 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Tanzinul's contributions primarily involve modifying and extending Google Test, a testing framework. Their work includes fixing issues related to death tests, specifically addressing Windows and MinGW compatibility for WER suppression. They also contribute to build system files and add/modify tests, demonstrating a focus on ensuring the framework's reliability and functionality across different platforms and configurations. These changes focus on the internal workings and testing of Google Test itself.
googletestinggoogletestmockingmock
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