# Curriculum Vitae

> Engineering Tech Lead · Vancouver, British Columbia.

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## Contact

- Email: contact@milon.im
- Phone: +1 (604) 735-7681
- Site: [milon.im](https://milon.im/)
- LinkedIn: [/linkedin](/linkedin)
- GitHub: [/github](/github)
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## Summary

Software engineer with over a decade of experience across healthcare, travel, ecommerce, and gaming. Leads backend teams shipping production systems that have to stay up — architecture, performance, fraud controls, and post-deploy operations. Strongest in Laravel/PHP, with production experience in Java, TypeScript, React, and AWS.

## Experience

### Punt — Vancouver, BC, Canada

**Engineering 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 across the organization.

**Senior Software Engineer** — January 2025 – January 2026

- Rewrote the legacy admin panel for 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.
- Built fraud detection for redemptions, cutting fraudulent activity by 38%.
- Implemented load-testing infrastructure simulating up to 25k concurrent users.
- Technologies: PHP, Laravel, PostgreSQL, Redis, React, Docker, AWS, k6

### Amazon — Canada

**Software Development Engineer II** — December 2023 – December 2024 · Vancouver, BC

- Gift Card Fulfillment and Delivery Charter team.
- Migrated the Gift Card Organization’s email suite to Amazon’s new templating system.
- Technologies: Java, TypeScript, React, AWS

**Software Development Engineer II** — February 2023 – November 2023 · Toronto, ON

- Amazon Connections, UX Tech team.

### Flix — Berlin, Germany

**Senior Software Engineer** — January 2020 – January 2023

- Network inventory, ride generation, and vehicle circulation for FlixBus and FlixTrain across 38 countries on 4 continents.
- Proprietary navigation for bus drivers in FlixDriver; lost-and-found reporting that reduced lost-baggage claims by 44%.
- Technologies: PHP, Laravel, Symfony, Java, Kotlin, React Native, Kafka, SQS, MySQL, Docker, AWS, Kubernetes, GitLab CI, React, TypeScript

### Urban Sports Club — Berlin, Germany

**Senior Software Engineer** — July 2019 – December 2019

- Multi-currency payment system and new payment gateways; financing, payments, and GDPR.
- Technologies: PHP, Laravel, Symfony, Phalcon, MySQL, RabbitMQ, Redis, AWS

### Check24 — Münster, NRW, Germany

**Senior Software Engineer** — May 2018 – June 2019

- Tires, car parts, and insurance portals for Autoteile, serving over 10 million customers.
- Technologies: PHP, Symfony, Laravel, MySQL, Doctrine, React, Elasticsearch

### Telenor Health — Dhaka, Bangladesh

**Senior Software Engineer** — May 2016 – April 2018

- Digital healthcare reaching over 5.5 million people; managed 4 developers, 3 interns, 1 QA, 1 DevOps.
- SMS gateway at 3k req/s; CMS reaching 10 million people.
- Technologies: PHP, Laravel, Lumen, Node.js, Express.js, PostgreSQL, Jenkins, Docker, AWS, Ansible, Angular, XMPP

### WeDevs Ltd. — Dhaka, Bangladesh

**Software Engineer** — February 2015 – April 2016

- Rx71 health service; managed 6 developers, 2 SQA, 1 DevOps; interim CTO for 3 months.
- Technologies: PHP, Laravel, Lumen, WordPress, MySQL, Angular, IonicJS, socket.io

### Brotecs Technologies Ltd. — Dhaka, Bangladesh

**Software Engineer** — September 2013 – January 2015

- Native Android/iOS VoIP apps; Asterisk PABX GUI; airplane entertainment module for SAP-212.
- Technologies: PHP, CodeIgniter, Android SDK, Objective-C, Angular, Asterisk

### ITMedicus Bangladesh Ltd. — Dhaka, Bangladesh

**Programmer and System Analyst** — February 2011 – August 2013

- Telemedicine software for custom hardware in rural healthcare; owned codebase, database, and client communication.
- Technologies: PHP, MySQL, Redis, jQuery, Bootstrap

## Education

**Mawlana Bhashani Science and Technology University** — Tangail, Bangladesh

B.Sc. Engineering in Information and Communication Technology (ICT)

- President, Society of ICT
- Chief Organizer, 1st MBSTU ICT Fest
- Member, Rotary Club of MBSTU

## Books

- [Laravel After Deploy](https://laravel-after-deploy.milon.im/) (August 2026, ISBN 979-8193747345) — production playbook for Laravel at scale.
- [Laravel PHP Web Framework](/book/laravel.md) (May 2015, ISBN 978-9843391902) — two bestselling editions in Bangladesh and West Bengal.

## 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

## 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

## More

- Languages spoken: English (C1), Bengali (native), German (A2)
- [Open-source packages](/open-source.md) with over 15 million downloads
- Manages phpXperts and Talk.js in Bangladesh
- Conference speaker