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Python Developer
Toronto, ON, Canada
Toptal member since October 24, 2014
Bio
Over the past 12 years as a full-stack software engineer for various clients, Ibrahim has worked on multiple technologies to develop web and desktop solutions for startups and SMBs. Ibrahim has extensive experience in software design and development with the latest technology and standards and is familiar with modern deployment environments and server administration issues.
Portfolio
Wave Financial Inc
Python 3, Django, React, Payment APIs, Worldpay...
Toptal Client
Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Large Language Models (LLMs)
Flighty, LLC
Python, Adobe Photoshop, OpenCV, PSD, SciPy, JSX, REST APIs...
Experience
- Python - 8 years
- Flask - 6 years
- PostgreSQL - 6 years
- Amazon S3 (AWS S3) - 6 years
- Node.js - 5 years
- NGINX - 5 years
- GraphQL - 4 years
- WebRTC - 3 years
Work Experience
Senior Software Engineer
2022 - PRESENT
Wave Financial Inc
- Designed and developed the recurring invoice payment solution.
- Designed and developed a variable monetization scheme for invoice payment.
- Managed and extended various microservices related to payment processing and financial services.
- Pioneered AI-native engineering practices—integrating agentic MCP workflows across Jira, Slack, GitHub, Confluence, and Datadog to accelerate code generation, and dramatically reduce time-to-resolution for incidents and troubleshooting.
- Improved the monitoring and observability of services by implementing advanced tools for real-time insights and anomaly detection. Enhanced logging, tracing, and alerting to ensure proactive issue resolution and optimal performance.
Technologies: Python 3, Django, React, Payment APIs, Worldpay, AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), Docker, Kubernetes, RabbitMQ, Amazon Web Services (AWS), DevOps, Software Architecture, Front-end Development, Full-stack Development, Data Privacy, Data Security, User Management, Back-end, Microservices, TypeScript, Model Context Protocol (MCP), Django REST Framework, Django ORM, Back-end Architecture, Event-driven Architecture, OAuth, Webhooks, REST APIs, OpenAI API, Cron, Automated Testing, Refactoring, Technical Leadership, Testing, Network Protocols
Software Engineer
2026 - 2026
Toptal Client
- Designed contamination-free software engineering benchmark tasks to evaluate frontier AI coding agents, targeting tasks that leading models solve less than 50% of the time.
- Found latent, previously unreported concurrency and data-integrity defects in production open-source Python job-queue and task-processing libraries (Celery, RQ, arq) by reading the source code, not by mining issue trackers.
- Built a contamination-sweep process covering changelogs, issue and PR trackers, and git history to confirm that no defect had ever been disclosed publicly before it was turned into a task.
- Wrote reference fixes and reproduction tests that fail at the base commit and pass with the fix, alongside the existing test suites.
- Built reproducible, network-isolated Docker evaluation environments pinned to exact commits, with hidden grader tests kept out of the agent’s reach.
- Designed PR-review-style grading rubrics with weighted criteria, blocker checks, anti-cheat guards, and LLM-judge scoring, stress-tested against false-positive and false-negative solutions.
Technologies: Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Large Language Models (LLMs)
Photoshop Automation Engineer (Python and OpenCV)
2026 - 2026
Flighty, LLC
- Researched and developed a vector artwork placement process on a wide variety of airline liveries.
- Created an automated PSD layer extraction process for vector artwork generation.
- Developed a process for generating airline livery masks from a large set of PSD files.
Technologies: Python, Adobe Photoshop, OpenCV, PSD, SciPy, JSX, REST APIs, CSV File Processing, JSON, CI/CD Pipelines
Software Engineer
2020 - 2022
Granicus
- Designed and developed software solutions and performed on-call and triage duties.
- Created unit tests for various features to improve the stability of the system.
- Developed an optimized query to obtain data efficiently from an extensive PostgreSQL database.
- Designed and extended the existing host compliance product features like interactive voice response, letters, mobile permitting, and rental activity monitoring.
- Oversaw and managed web applications in AWS.
- Helped and conducted training sessions for new developers.
- Designed containerized architecture and deployed it on Amazon ECS.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), GIS, Flask, PostgreSQL, Python, API Integration, DevOps, Google Sheets, Google Sheets API, ChatGPT, Middleware, Software Architecture, Front-end Development, Full-stack Development, Google Analytics, Data Privacy, Data Security, User Management, Back-end, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), JSON Web Tokens (JWT), Back-end Architecture, Event-driven Architecture, OAuth, Webhooks, REST APIs, Cron, Automated Testing, Refactoring, Technical Leadership, Testing, Network Protocols
Solution Architect | Lead Developer
2021 - 2021
Manhattan Digital
- Designed a scalable custom media capture and delivery web platform.
- Led a team of five to deliver a custom web solution for Microsoft Inspire and Microsoft Ready events.
- Implemented the solution with Azure Cloud using Azure Functions and other components.
- Designed an on-the-fly custom video content generation solution.
- Managed the coordination between the computer vision, web, and DevOps teams.
- Worked with product owners and other stakeholders and converted ideas into solutions.
Technologies: Azure Functions, FFmpeg, Unscreen, Remove BG, Express.js, Docker, Nuxt.js, SendGrid, CI/CD Pipelines, MongoDB Atlas, Node.js, API Integration, DevOps, API Connectors, Software Architecture, Front-end Development, Full-stack Development, Data Privacy, Data Security, User Management, Microservices, Vue, TypeScript, JSON Web Tokens (JWT), Back-end Architecture, OAuth, Webhooks, REST APIs, Automated Testing, Refactoring, Technical Leadership, Network Protocols
Python Developer
2020 - 2021
Axiomatic Technology Ltd
- Contributed to Python3 custom library development for Async data processing for high-performance projects.
- Handled Windows Services Python integration and resolved critical issues.
- Contributed to the MQTT messaging protocol to communicate between services.
- Developed unit tests for various features that run in the Jenkins pipeline on each build.
Technologies: Python 3, Asyncio, Windows Services, MQTT, Sensor Data, MySQL, Jenkins, Software Architecture, Front-end Development, Full-stack Development, Data Security, User Management, Back-end, Back-end Architecture, Event-driven Architecture, Webhooks, Refactoring, Network Protocols, Network Engineering
Software Engineer
2017 - 2020
Host Compliance - Now a part of Granicus
- Developed a back-end FTP-based custom file upload solution.
- Developed automated bulk letter-sending architecture.
- Developed a custom interactive voice response solution for complaints reporting.
- Worked with ML model to group similar listings of short-term rental (STR).
- Implemented efficient API interfaces with GraphQL.
- Migrated Amazon EC2 web applications to Amazon Elastic Container Service.
Technologies: Python, SQL, SQLAlchemy, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Web Scraping, API Integration, DevOps, Middleware, Software Architecture, Front-end Development, Full-stack Development, Google Analytics, Data Privacy, Data Security, User Management, Back-end, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), JSON Web Tokens (JWT), Back-end Architecture, Event-driven Architecture, OAuth, Webhooks, REST APIs, Cron, Automated Testing, Refactoring, Technical Leadership, Testing, Network Protocols
Founder and Architect
2017 - 2019
Shikhai Live
- Created a peer-to-peer live interactive collaboration platform with audio/video chat, whiteboard, and media sharing.
- Implemented Docker-based automated deployment to VPS.
- Developed an interactive real-time whiteboard with various drawing tools using React-Redux.
- Developed virtual wallet and payment system to collect student fees and disburse automatically to educators after deducting platform service fee.
- Developed a REST API with an automated testing suite in Postman.
Technologies: Jitsi, WebRTC, Linode, Docker, PostgreSQL, React, Django, Node.js, API Integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS), DevOps, Containerization, Middleware, Software Architecture, Front-end Development, Full-stack Development, Google Analytics, User Management, Back-end, Firebase, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), TypeScript, Django REST Framework, JSON Web Tokens (JWT), Django ORM, Back-end Architecture, Event-driven Architecture, OAuth, REST APIs, Cron, Technical Leadership, Network Protocols, Network Engineering
Software Analyst
2015 - 2016
IPvision Soft Ltd
- Developed real-time chat, feed, and comments feature in the browser for a unified social networking platform.
- Provided extensive optimization of an AngularJS application.
- Collaborated with other engineers and managers to design and ship new features.
- Optimized the AngularJS framework for handling real-time data.
- Designed software architecture to ensure the software application quality, performance, and responsiveness.
Technologies: WebSockets, Java, AngularJS, JavaScript, Front-end Development, Full-stack Development, Back-end Architecture, Refactoring, Performance Optimization, Network Protocols, Network Engineering
Senior Software Engineer
2013 - 2014
ZS Solutions Ltd
- Developed a mobile health care portal using Python Django CMS. It includes patient registration, diagnosis and questionnaire submission, and role-based user management. The API was developed to support mobile apps.
- Designed and developed a business website for the company.
- Acted as team lead on a web development platform and trained junior developers.
- Consulted on the design phase of an SMS gateway development to develop the system.
Technologies: NGINX, HTML5, JavaScript, Flask, Tornado, Django, Python, API Integration, DevOps, Front-end Development, Full-stack Development, Google Analytics, User Management, Back-end, Django REST Framework, JSON Web Tokens (JWT), Django ORM, Back-end Architecture, REST APIs, Cron, Automated Testing, Refactoring, Technical Leadership, Testing
Software Engineer
2013 - 2013
ZS Solutions Ltd
- Developed a solution for SMS-based surveys. Multiple surveys can run instantly with multiple participants per survey. The system response via SMS is almost instantaneous. Optimized the full system by distributing tasks in processes.
- Learned an already-developed system for restaurant listings, reviews, and offers. Developed and extended the system for further needs.
- Deployed the system to a live server and configured the DNS.
- Trained a co-developer about good practices in web development.
- Developed a secure-batch SMS and email sending module using secure file transfer protocol and an SMS and email sending gateway.
Technologies: NGINX, JavaScript, CSS3, HTML5, Front-end Development, Full-stack Development, User Management, Django REST Framework, Back-end Architecture, Refactoring
Senior Developer and Researcher
2011 - 2012
ICodeBD
- Parsed Craigslist for developing a customized search engine called Leppie.com.
- Developed a business review portal. The portal's main features include business listing, profiles, reviews, ratings, and comments.
- Developed a video webcasting portal that can show seminar video presentations with slides synced with the video. (See http://www.rfwa.org.au/vidstream/).
Technologies: Apache, jQuery, JavaScript, CSS3, HTML5, Front-end Development, Full-stack Development, Back-end Architecture, Refactoring
Core Web Developer
2010 - 2011
ICodeBD
- Created a local business review site called Trafixs.
- Developed an online voucher solution module.
- Developed an API for a job site called Sunstuff.com.
- Developed a translator project that uses Google Translate to translate large documents in multiple formats. It translates documents in chunks and merges them together for a final document.
- Developed a WordPress plugin called Auto Tag Post which automatically tags posts after analyzing the post content.
- Developed a WordPress plugin that automatically adds a category to a post after analyzing the post content.
- Developed a WordPress plugin that reveals more info from a post after a user shares the post in social sites.
Technologies: Apache, CSS3, HTML5, Front-end Development, Full-stack Development
Project History
Host Compliance
https://granicus.com/solution/govservice/host-compliance/A platform that offers software solutions to help US state jurisdictions to enforce and monitor short-term rental compliance laws.
The features include periodic compliance letter sending, tax collection and monitoring, compliance monitoring, mobile permitting, etc.
The features include periodic compliance letter sending, tax collection and monitoring, compliance monitoring, mobile permitting, etc.
Virtual Event Experience
This project offers web solutions to record user media using a webcam and generate on-the-fly shareable video content with custom text and animation.
I scaled the solution using Azure Functions.
Features:
-Use of raw FFmpeg to generate videos on-the-fly.
-Custom admin dashboard for monitoring.
-Integration of Azure app insights for end-to-end monitoring.
-Continuous delivery with GitHub CI/CD.
I scaled the solution using Azure Functions.
Features:
-Use of raw FFmpeg to generate videos on-the-fly.
-Custom admin dashboard for monitoring.
-Integration of Azure app insights for end-to-end monitoring.
-Continuous delivery with GitHub CI/CD.
Instant Exporter
Export table data to third-party providers like Amazon S3 and Salesforce in a single click. Clients can view a dashboard for tracking uploads and provider authentication status.
Technologies Used: Flask, Core JavaScript, Circle CI, Amazon S3, Salesforce API, Dropbox API, Google Spreadsheets API, and AWS IAM API.
Technologies Used: Flask, Core JavaScript, Circle CI, Amazon S3, Salesforce API, Dropbox API, Google Spreadsheets API, and AWS IAM API.
RingID Social Networking Platform
An advanced social networking platform that supports combined features of Viber, Facebook, Skype, Snapchat, and others.
This project was developed using a custom communication protocol based on RUDP and has improved data and battery consumption benchmark on mobile calling.
Technologies Used: AngularJS 1.4, JavaScript-based raw byte packet processing, and web sockets.
This project was developed using a custom communication protocol based on RUDP and has improved data and battery consumption benchmark on mobile calling.
Technologies Used: AngularJS 1.4, JavaScript-based raw byte packet processing, and web sockets.
Mobile Health Care Solution Portal
A remote healthcare solution portal built with Django, jQuery, and Bootstrap and providing API support using Django REST framework.
Portal Features:
- Role-based user management
- Patient management
- Condition and disease management
- Scheduled alerts
- Messages and push notifications
- Customized questionnaire system
- Customized event notification
Technologies Used: Django, jQuery, Bootstrap, Dajax, Django REST Framework.
Portal Features:
- Role-based user management
- Patient management
- Condition and disease management
- Scheduled alerts
- Messages and push notifications
- Customized questionnaire system
- Customized event notification
Technologies Used: Django, jQuery, Bootstrap, Dajax, Django REST Framework.
Challeng.org
Challeng is the viral fundraising platform that's rewriting the rules of charity. The challenger (Admin) challenges celebrities to do something, and users give pledges to encourage them to do it as, if they do the task, all pledges will go to a specified charity.
Tech used: Flask, Postgre, SQLAlchemy, Sass, Stripe, Heroku, Amazon S3, Celery, RabbitMQ, and more.
Tech used: Flask, Postgre, SQLAlchemy, Sass, Stripe, Heroku, Amazon S3, Celery, RabbitMQ, and more.
SMS-based Survey System
An application for the creation and distribution of market research surveys.
Features:
• Easy survey creation with an unlimited number of questions.
• Various question-types (yes/no, scale, net promoter).
• Parallel participant processing.
• Interactive UI support.
• Report generation.
• Interactive results.
• User access limits for company moderation.
• Auto callback.
• Option to download results for offline processing.
• Free to end-user option.
Technologies Used: CodeIgniter, jQuery, Bootstrap, Linux, and cron job.
More details at http://anytimeir.wordpress.com/2013/06/22/sms-based-survey-system/
Features:
• Easy survey creation with an unlimited number of questions.
• Various question-types (yes/no, scale, net promoter).
• Parallel participant processing.
• Interactive UI support.
• Report generation.
• Interactive results.
• User access limits for company moderation.
• Auto callback.
• Option to download results for offline processing.
• Free to end-user option.
Technologies Used: CodeIgniter, jQuery, Bootstrap, Linux, and cron job.
More details at http://anytimeir.wordpress.com/2013/06/22/sms-based-survey-system/
PhD User Management Portal
A student management portal for Ph.D. candidates, featuring user accounts that read from the institution's LDAP DB, document uploads, prizes, employment management, progress tracking, and more. Implemented with Django, AngularJS, and Postgres.
Tornado SMS Gateway Application SOAP API
Developed a SOAP 1.1 API serving for Tornado Application. It's an SMS Gateway application. The API serves the following features:
• Listed, created, edited, and deleted the department, originating address, and templates
• Sent bulk and single SMS and email
Tech Used: Tornado, MySQL, Sybase, SOAP1.1, SOAP UI, Celery, RabbitMQ, and more.
• Listed, created, edited, and deleted the department, originating address, and templates
• Sent bulk and single SMS and email
Tech Used: Tornado, MySQL, Sybase, SOAP1.1, SOAP UI, Celery, RabbitMQ, and more.
Richmond Fellowship Webcasting Website
Video webcasting portal to show live presentations with slides synced to presenter talks.
The key features of the application are:
1. A simplified login and registration process: users can register with minimal information and log in with just an email address.
2. Seminar functions: users can create/edit/delete seminars, upload videos of seminars to Vimeo, upload presentation slides for a seminar, synchronize the slides with the video, browse seminar lists, and view seminar videos with automatic slide changes set to the video time frame.
Technologies Used: PHP, HTML5/CSS3, Flash/HTML5 video player, and Vimeo APIs.
The key features of the application are:
1. A simplified login and registration process: users can register with minimal information and log in with just an email address.
2. Seminar functions: users can create/edit/delete seminars, upload videos of seminars to Vimeo, upload presentation slides for a seminar, synchronize the slides with the video, browse seminar lists, and view seminar videos with automatic slide changes set to the video time frame.
Technologies Used: PHP, HTML5/CSS3, Flash/HTML5 video player, and Vimeo APIs.
Restaurant Listing Portal
- Reach out to thousands of potential and existing customers using mobile marketing.
- Distribute mobile vouchers, upload photos, menus and offers, and watch your bookings increase.
- APIs for iPhone and Android that let restaurateurs promote their restaurants to discerning diners, anywhere, anytime, whatever they're doing.
PHP, CodeIgniter, jQuery, Apache, Cron Jobs
- Distribute mobile vouchers, upload photos, menus and offers, and watch your bookings increase.
- APIs for iPhone and Android that let restaurateurs promote their restaurants to discerning diners, anywhere, anytime, whatever they're doing.
PHP, CodeIgniter, jQuery, Apache, Cron Jobs
Voucher Solution
Voucher-based online payment gateway. It is an authenticated system that allows the user to buy a voucher for the intended product/service price. The system gives a voucher code while securely hiding the credit card credentials. The voucher code can be used at the various sites which accept voucher codes as a payment system.
Email2SMS Sending Script
A Django module interacts with local mail servers, collects incoming emails, and sends them through an SMS gateway.
Features:
1. A single SMS send as number@domain.com.
2. A batch SMS send via attachments.
3. Email-based notification support.
4. Monitoring system.
Technologies Used: Django, cron job, Postfix mail server, Dovecot, and Roundcube.
Features:
1. A single SMS send as number@domain.com.
2. A batch SMS send via attachments.
3. Email-based notification support.
4. Monitoring system.
Technologies Used: Django, cron job, Postfix mail server, Dovecot, and Roundcube.
WordPress Plugin: Smart Notification
Adds Facebook-style notifications to your WordPress site. Authors are notified if someone comments on their posts. The commenter is notified if someone replies to his/her comment.
WordPress Plugin: Mark Unread Comments
Marks comments based on the viewer's last visit. It is a lightweight plugin to mark unread comments. Comments are marked based on cookies, so there is no server side overload. The unread comments marker is automatically removed after timeout.
WordPress Plugin: Keyword Optimizer
A WordPress plugin that helps you to automate the SEO process. It adds tags, categories and highlights words based on your post's keywords. It randomly styles your words so that it looks good to the readers. The plugin uses various keywords providers such as "tagthe.net" and "yahooapis" to get keywords for a post.
Timezones
A simple application built to list time zones with AngularJS and Django REST Framework.
Features:
- User registration and authentication
- Time zone management with filtering
- Bootstrap 3 Angular UI
- REST API
Features:
- User registration and authentication
- Time zone management with filtering
- Bootstrap 3 Angular UI
- REST API
Addico SMS Gateway Portal Demo
An SMS gateway demo application to send SMS, built with Flask, Facebook API, LinkedIn API, and Twitter API.
Bangladesh Railway Ticket Availability Status
- A Python scraper designed to crawl the status from railway authentication-enabled website http://esheba.cnsbd.com.
- The web portal is built with Flask, Bootstrap, and jQuery.
- The Flask API was developed for supporting web apps and mobile applications for Android & iOS.
Mobile Apps:
http://bit.ly/bdrailway_android
http://bit.ly/bdrailway_ios
- The web portal is built with Flask, Bootstrap, and jQuery.
- The Flask API was developed for supporting web apps and mobile applications for Android & iOS.
Mobile Apps:
http://bit.ly/bdrailway_android
http://bit.ly/bdrailway_ios
SFTP2SMS Solution
Send batch marketing emails/SMS to customers with this solution.
The key features of the application are:
- Send Batch Emails to customers
- Upload your emails to our SFTP server, and our application will send those emails to corresponding recipients.
- Communicate securely, as the application uses SFTP protocol to communicate.
Technologies: PHP, SFTP, SOAP
This solution has been developed for Appdragon.
The key features of the application are:
- Send Batch Emails to customers
- Upload your emails to our SFTP server, and our application will send those emails to corresponding recipients.
- Communicate securely, as the application uses SFTP protocol to communicate.
Technologies: PHP, SFTP, SOAP
This solution has been developed for Appdragon.
Education
2008 - 2013
Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science and Engineering
Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology - Dhaka, Bangladesh
Skills
Libraries/APIs
React, jQuery, Facebook API, Node.js, REST APIs, Django ORM, SQLAlchemy, React Redux, Dropbox API, Google Maps, jQuery Mobile, Vue, Google Sheets API, OpenAI API, WebRTC, Asyncio, Salesforce API, AMQP, X (formerly Twitter) API, LinkedIn API, FFmpeg, RQ, OpenCV, SciPy
Tools
Firebug, Google Sheets, Cron, Vim Text Editor, Shell, NPM, PyCharm, Bower, Sublime Text, NGINX, Chrome Developer Tools, WebStorm, Sublime Text 3, Apache, MySQL Workbench, SendGrid, Auth0, Google Analytics, GIS, MQTT, Jenkins, Adobe Photoshop, Unscreen, MongoDB Atlas, MATLAB, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), RabbitMQ, ChatGPT, Terraform, JSX
Languages
JavaScript, HTML5, Python, CSS, SQL, Java, C++, GraphQL, Python 3, Sass, CSS3, TypeScript
Frameworks
AngularJS, Flask, CodeIgniter, Django REST Framework, Django, Next.js, JSON Web Tokens (JWT), Angular, PhoneGap, Ionic, Redux, Flex, Express.js, Nuxt.js, Qt 5, Bootstrap 3
Paradigms
Refactoring, Agile Software Development, Pair Programming, Design Patterns, Automation, Microservices, Back-end Architecture, Event-driven Architecture, Automated Testing, Testing, Test-driven Development (TDD), Unit Testing, DevOps, Model Context Protocol (MCP)
Platforms
Linux, NetBeans, Android, Docker, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Celery eCommerce, Heroku, Linode, MacOS, Firebase, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Unix, Amazon EC2, Azure Functions, Azure, Kubernetes
Storage
Amazon S3 (AWS S3), PostgreSQL, MySQLi, MySQL, PostgreSQL 10, MongoDB, NoSQL, Oracle 11g, Google Cloud, JSON
Other
Unix Shell Scripting, Code Review, Source Code Review, Task Analysis, Full-stack, APIs, Back-end, Architecture, System Architecture, Web Development, Web App Development, API Integration, Software Architecture, Webhooks, Web Scraping, Vi, VPS/VDS, Technical Hiring, Interviewing, Team Management, Dashboards, Front-end Development, Full-stack Development, Data Privacy, Data Security, User Management, OAuth, Technical Leadership, Tornado, WebSockets, Jitsi, Windows Services, Sensor Data, Remove BG, CI/CD Pipelines, Machine Learning, Computer Science, Payment APIs, Worldpay, API Connectors, Containerization, Middleware, Large Language Models (LLMs), Embedded Systems, Amazon Redshift, Performance Optimization, Network Protocols, Network Engineering, PSD, CSV File Processing, Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence (AI)
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