Nuruzzaman Milon
Vancouver, BC, Canada
01 — Summary
Software engineer with over a decade of experience across healthcare, travel, ecommerce, and gaming. I lead backend teams shipping production systems that have to stay up — architecture, performance, fraud controls, and the operational work after deploy. Strongest in Laravel/PHP, with production experience in Java, TypeScript, React, and AWS.
02 — Experience
Punt
Vancouver, BC, CanadaEngineering Tech Lead
January 2026 – Present- Lead the engineering team for the sweepstakes casino: backend API suite and admin panel.
- Spearheaded platform expansion into new markets, including Canada and Europe.
- Drive code quality and architectural decisions, establishing technical standards across the organization.
Senior Software Engineer
January 2025 – January 2026- Rewrote the legacy admin panel for two sweepstakes casino platforms: chanced.com and punt.com.
- Optimized the backend API suite to handle 16k concurrent users.
- Migrated the backend API suite to current Laravel and PHP versions for performance, security, and maintainability.
- Built fraud detection for the user redemption workflow, cutting fraudulent activity by 38%.
- Implemented load-testing infrastructure simulating up to 25k concurrent users so new features stayed within performance budgets.
PHP, Laravel, PostgreSQL, Redis, React, Docker, AWS, k6
Amazon
Software Development Engineer II
December 2023 – December 2024 · Vancouver, BC- Gift Card Fulfillment and Delivery Charter team, focused on Amazon Gift Cards.
- Migrated the Gift Card Organization’s email suite to Amazon’s new templating system.
Software Development Engineer II
February 2023 – November 2023 · Toronto, ON- Amazon Connections, UX Tech team.
TypeScript, React, AWS
Flix
Berlin, GermanySenior Software Engineer
January 2020 – January 2023- Managed network inventory, ride generation, and vehicle circulation for FlixBus and FlixTrain across 38 countries on 4 continents.
- Built a proprietary navigation system for bus drivers in the FlixDriver app, removing external dependencies.
- Shipped lost-and-found reporting in FlixDriver, reducing lost-baggage claims by 44%.
PHP, Laravel, Symfony, Java, Kotlin, React Native, Kafka, SQS, MySQL, Docker, AWS, Kubernetes, GitLab CI, React, TypeScript
Urban Sports Club
Berlin, GermanySenior Software Engineer
July 2019 – December 2019- Built a multi-currency payment system and integrated new payment gateways to support faster growth.
- Led work across financing, payments, and GDPR compliance.
PHP, Laravel, Symfony, Phalcon, MySQL, RabbitMQ, Redis, AWS
Check24
Münster, NRW, GermanySenior Software Engineer
May 2018 – June 2019- Developed and maintained tires, car parts, and insurance portals for the Autoteile team, serving over 10 million customers.
PHP, Symfony, Laravel, MySQL, Doctrine, React, Elasticsearch
Telenor Health
Dhaka, BangladeshSenior Software Engineer
May 2016 – April 2018- Built digital healthcare products reaching over 5.5 million people (medications, information, insurance, and related services).
- Managed a team of 4 developers, 3 interns, 1 QA, and 1 DevOps specialist.
- Built a high-traffic SMS gateway handling 3k req/s and HTTP-based inter-app communication.
- Shipped a CMS distributing healthcare information to 10 million people, plus tooling for queue management, monitoring, and reporting.
PHP, Laravel, Lumen, Node.js, Express.js, PostgreSQL, Jenkins, Docker, AWS, Ansible, Angular, XMPP
WeDevs Ltd.
Dhaka, BangladeshSoftware Engineer
February 2015 – April 2016- Built the Rx71 health service: articles, symptom checker, doctor/hospital directory, booking, and diet plans.
- Managed 6 developers, 2 SQA, and 1 DevOps; served as interim CTO for 3 months.
PHP, Laravel, Lumen, WordPress, MySQL, Angular, IonicJS, socket.io
Brotecs Technologies Ltd.
Dhaka, BangladeshSoftware Engineer
September 2013 – January 2015- Built VoIP calling apps for native Android and iOS.
- Developed a web GUI for maintaining the Asterisk PABX server.
- Created an airplane entertainment module for SAP-212 hardware (call, email, browsing).
PHP, CodeIgniter, Android SDK, Objective-C, Angular, Asterisk
ITMedicus Bangladesh Ltd.
Dhaka, BangladeshProgrammer and System Analyst
February 2011 – August 2013- Owned codebase, database, and product design; handled direct client communication.
- Built telemedicine software supporting custom hardware for rural healthcare delivery.
PHP, MySQL, Redis, jQuery, Bootstrap
03 — Education
Mawlana Bhashani Science and Technology University
Tangail, BangladeshB.Sc. Engineering in Information and Communication Technology (ICT)
- President, Society of ICT
- Chief Organizer, 1st MBSTU ICT Fest
- Member, Rotary Club of MBSTU
04 — Books
Laravel After Deploy
August 2026- Production playbook for Laravel engineers: architecture, performance, correctness, observability, deployment, and operations at scale.
Laravel PHP Web Framework
May 2015- Both editions became bestsellers in Bangladesh and West Bengal, India.
05 — Skills
- Languages
- PHP, Java, Python, Node
- Frameworks
- Laravel, Symfony, React, Vue
- Data
- PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Kafka, RabbitMQ
- Cloud / Ops
- AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Ansible, Nginx
- Practices
- Microservices, REST, GraphQL, TDD, DDD, Agile / Scrum / Kanban
06 — Certifications
- Certified Laravel Developer — 2018
- Certified Scrum Professional — Developer — 2018
- Certified Scrum Professional — ScrumMaster — 2017
- Advanced Certified Scrum Developer — 2017
- Certified Scrum Developer — 2017
- Certified ScrumMaster — 2016
07 — More
- Languages
- English (C1), Bengali (native), German (A2)
- Community
- Open-source packages with over 15 million downloads Manages phpXperts (largest PHP community in Bangladesh) and Talk.js (largest JS community in Bangladesh) Conference speaker