Md Tariqul Islam — Abu Dhabi, UAE

Backend systems, engineered to scale.

6+ years shipping production systems. Currently building consumer-lending products on Botim — the UAE super-app serving 150M+ users (Astra Tech, a G42 affiliate).

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open to backend roles · fintech, trading, quant, or anything
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years of production backend
0M+
users on the platform my products ship on
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lending & payment products delivered · 2 launched 0→live
Top 0%
in a Codeforces round · ICPC Asia-West finalist
01 / Experience

Backend systems that move real money.

Aug 2024 – Present
Abu Dhabi
Astra Tech / Quantix · G42 affiliate — Botim
Backend Software Engineer, Fintech
  • Built and launched SplitPay — a credit-card / BNPL hybrid — from zero to live on Botim, the UAE super-app serving 150M+ users.
  • Designed the core lending engine — instalment scheduling & recalculation and real-time credit-limit management.
  • Built and operate a salary-advance lending product (WPS-based, live 8+ months) — identity-verified onboarding through to collections & recovery; also contributed to rent-financing and payment-gateway services.
Jul 2023 – Jul 2024
Abu Dhabi
promoted to lead
AZH Ltd
Software Development Lead ← Senior Quant Developer
  • Promoted to lead end-to-end delivery of a full trading platform — order management, price engine, trading terminal, market making.
  • Built real-time price-feed backends over raw sockets; cut API response time ~70% with Redis; shipped an ML-driven trade-suggestion engine.
Apr 2022 – Jul 2023
Dubai
Smarter AI
Microservice Developer
  • Spring Boot platform managing AI cameras, firmware, and models at scale; built a geo-fencing engine for location-aware device rules; raised webhook throughput ~10× via Redis; ELK monitoring stack.
Nov 2019 – Mar 2022
Dhaka
AnyConnect
Software Engineer
  • Backend + native camera libraries (Android, Raspberry Pi, Jetson Nano) for an AI-camera platform across REST and gRPC microservices; ~25% fewer bugs via automated API testing.
02 / Skills

The stack I build with.

Hover any chip for a proficiency read.

Languages
JavaPythonC / C++SQLGolangRustTypeScript
Backend
Spring BootRESTgRPCWebSocketEvent-DrivenApache Dubbo
Data
PostgreSQLMySQLRedisKafkaRabbitMQElasticsearch
Cloud / DevOps
LinuxDockerKubernetesAWSAzureGCPCI/CDPrometheus
Security
OAuth2Data encryptiondata-protection compliance
AI tooling
Claude CodeCursorGitHub CopilotAI-assisted dev (daily)
Tools & Editors
IntelliJ IDEAPyCharmCLionVS CodeGitPostman
Foundations
Data structures & algorithmsMathematics & statisticsProblem solvingSystem design
Domains
BNPL / consumer lendingCredit cardspayments & reconciliationtrading & market systemsAI-camera / computer-vision platformsIoT / edge (Jetson, Raspberry Pi)
03 / Achievements

A competitive-programming pedigree.

~/achievements — zsh
$ icpc --asia-west --final 2019
29th place # Team JU_Quanta
$ contests --champion
IEEE HACKLAB 1.0 (2018)
$ profile --solved
1500+ # problems solved
1915
Codeforces · top 0.5%
2409
CodeChef
29th
ICPC Asia-West Continent Final
Profiles
04 / Projects

Selected work — professional & academic.

Fintech · Production

SplitPay — Consumer-Lending Platform

Credit-card / BNPL hybrid built 0→live on Botim: lending engine, real-time credit-limit management, payments & reconciliation.

JavaSpring Bootpayments
Fintech · Production

Salary-Advance Lending Platform (WPS)

Salary-advance product live 8+ months on Botim: identity-verified onboarding (OTP / face), scheduled disbursement, repayment, and collections / capital-recovery.

JavaSpring Bootlending
Trading

Trading Platform (end-to-end)

Order management, price engine, trading terminal, and market making — with real-time price-feed backends over raw sockets.

Javareal-timesockets
Quant / ML

Market Prediction Application

ML forecasting across financial instruments that generates actionable, data-driven trade suggestions.

PythonMLdata
Data / NLP

News Aggregation & Topic Clustering

ELT pipeline + NLP clustering of multi-source news into evolving storylines.

ELTNLPclustering
IoT Backend

IoT Camera Management Backend

Spring Boot backend for camera fleets: OTA updates, live-feed monitoring, dynamic feature deployment.

Spring BootgRPCOTA
Academic

Algorithms — convex hull & order statistics

Proposed a linear-time 2D convex-hull algorithm (O(n) vs O(n log n)) with visualizer; order-statistics set via Fenwick tree.

C++algorithmspaper
05 / How I work
01

End-to-end ownership

Schema → APIs → reconciliation → deployment → production hotfixes, across dev / sim / UAT / prod.

02

AI-accelerated

Daily AI-assisted development (Claude Code) integrated into a real production workflow.

03

Performance & reliability

Cut API latency ~70% with Redis, scaled webhook throughput ~10×, and keep money-movement flows reconciled and auditable in production.

06 / Contact

Let’s talk.

A role, a project, or a hard problem — send it over and I’ll get back to you.

[email protected]

Abu Dhabi, UAE (GST, UTC+4)
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