Summary
Toufiqul Islam is a Lead Software Engineer based in Dhaka with nine years of experience building high-throughput, cost-efficient backend systems for fast-growing SaaS and edtech products. He has a strong track record at 10 Minute School where he slashed p99 latency by 85%, led live video streaming for 30k concurrent students, and cut video processing costs by 75% through an in-house pipeline. Skilled in Node.js, Go, Docker, Kubernetes and event-driven architectures, he designs resilient microservices, implements observability with OpenTelemetry, and optimizes cloud spend at scale. As a hands-on leader he mentors engineers, owns end-to-end APIs and migration/refactoring efforts, and introduced reliable background processing using Redis/BullMQ and RabbitMQ. Currently leading backend engineering at RoBenDevs after senior roles modernizing F&B SaaS platforms and merchant services, he combines product-minded engineering with measurable operational impact. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic systems thinker who balances deep technical ownership with cost and performance discipline.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
HSC, HSC at Dhaka Imperial College
Engineer’s Degree Computer Science and Engineering, Engineer’s Degree Computer Science and Engineering at Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology
English, Bangla