Md Tariqul Islam Abu Dhabi, UAE

Backend systems, engineered to scale.

6+ years building backend that moves real money — currently shipping consumer-lending on Botim, the UAE super-app (150M+ users). Lately: GenAI / LLM apps on the side — RAG, agents, MCP.

open to any backend roles · fintech · trading · quant · GenAI · forward deployment
6+
years of production backend
150M+
users on the platform my products ship on
5
lending & payment products delivered · 4 launched 0→live
Top 0.5%
in a Codeforces round · ICPC Asia-West finalist
01 / Experience

6+ years building 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 BootFastAPIRESTgRPCWebSocketEvent-DrivenApache Dubbo
GenAI / LLM Apps
LLM apps (tool-calling)Prompt & context engineeringRAG (retrieval, citations)Vector DBs / embeddings (pgvector)Agents / LangGraphMCP serversEvals (LLM-as-judge)Guardrails (PII, output)Inference gateway / observabilityLocal LLM (llama.cpp/Vulkan)
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
Profiles
04 / Projects

Selected work — professional & academic.

Click any card for detail.

More work
05 / How I work
014 products 0→live

End-to-end ownership

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

02daily, in prod

AI-accelerated

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

03~70% ↓ · ~10× thru

Performance & reliability

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

04research → CVEs → prod

Always current

Continuously tracking new research, tools, and performance optimizations — plus the security advisories / CVEs that matter — and folding what’s useful into how I build.

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]