Md Tariqul Islam — Backend Software Engineer

01 / Experience

Seven 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: statements, instalment recalculation, late-fee + VAT computation, real-time credit-limit management.
Built and operate Salary Now (salary advance, live 8+ months): OTP / face-verified onboarding, disbursement, repayment, collections. 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

Software Engineer (Microservices)

Spring Boot platform managing AI cameras, firmware, and models at scale; 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, grouped — no proficiency bars.

Languages

JavaPythonC / C++SQLTypeScript

Backend

Spring BootRESTgRPCWebSocketEvent-DrivenApache Dubbo

Data

PostgreSQLMySQLRedisKafkaRabbitMQElasticsearch

Cloud / DevOps

DockerKubernetesAWSAzureGCPCI/CDPrometheus

Security

OAuth2AES-GCM encryptiondata-protection compliance

AI tooling

Claude CodeCursorAI-assisted dev (daily)

Domains

BNPL / consumer lendingpayments & 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

Samsung R&D Code Contest 2019

IEEE HACKLAB 1.0 (2018)

$ profile --solved

1500+ # problems solved

1915

Codeforces rating · top 0.45%

2409

CodeChef rating

29th

ICPC Asia-West Continent Final

04 / Projects

Selected work — professional & academic.

Trading

Market Trend Prediction & Trading Engine

ML forecasting across financial instruments generating actionable trade suggestions.

PythonMLreal-time

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 shipped a zero-downtime encryption migration on live data.

06 / Contact

Let’s talk.

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

tariq@tariqweb.com