Director of Engineering at Authentic Brands Group · Dhaka, Bangladesh
I build commerce, AI and real-time products end to end, and lead the team that ships them. Currently responsible for consumer-facing and internal platforms across Authentic's portfolio of global brands.
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Authentic Membership — the subscription program that unifies Authentic's brand portfolio behind one membership, delivering benefits across participating storefronts through Shop Pay subscriptions.
Authentic Intelligence — an enterprise AI platform with agentic chat, document and contract workflows, creative generation and data analysis. Led its development from concept to company-wide adoption.
Reebok & Champion on Shopify — co-built the migration platform that moved order and customer data onto Shopify at enterprise scale with zero downtime.
Shopify Bill Pay — built for Shopify, powered by Melio. An embedded business payments product that saves merchants roughly 16 hours a month on paying bills.
PhotoRoom for Shopify — clean, professional product photography inside the Shopify admin.
| Project | What it is | Built with |
|---|---|---|
| wavechat | Real-time chat and communities, Discord-inspired | TypeScript, Next.js, GraphQL, Prisma, Redis |
| sttp | Simple Text Transfer Protocol, a decentralized protocol over TCP | Go |
| fleet | A Twitter-like social platform | TypeScript, Next.js, Prisma |
| redis-go | An implementation of the Redis CLI | Go |
| minicel | A headless spreadsheet engine for .csv files |
Go |
| go-url | A URL shortener | Go, Svelte |
| cliptale | Desktop clipboard history manager | TypeScript, Electron |
| sparked | Visual learning platform with 3D simulations | Svelte, Three.js |
| nord-dark-pro | A VS Code theme, Nord meets One Dark Pro | JSON |
Languages — TypeScript, Go, JavaScript, Python, Rust, SQL
Web — React, Next.js, Remix, Hydrogen, React Native, Svelte, Vue, Node.js, GraphQL, TailwindCSS
Commerce — Shopify Plus, Shop Pay, Shopify Markets, Shopify Functions
AI — OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Vertex AI, Perplexity, LangChain, RAG, agentic workflows
Infrastructure — Google Cloud, AWS, Cloudflare, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, PostgreSQL, Firestore, BigQuery, Redis



