Md Mahabubur Rahman
Senior Technology Leader – Telco, Digital Services & Software Engineering
Dhaka
Summary
Transformational technology leader with a growth mindset and a proven track record of scaling engineering teams, modernizing critical platforms, and driving impact across telecom, ecommerce, and fintech. Known for leading high-performing teams, embracing change, and delivering measurable business outcomes with speed, agility, and a collaborative spirit.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
2
2
Languages
Work History
Head of Software Engineering
Grameenphone
03.2024 - Current
- Led 200+ engineers across software, QA, DevOps, and agile roles, managing in-house and augmented team
- Increased delivery throughput by 70% via squad-based delivery model with only 15% CAPEX growth.
- Achieved zero story spillovers across multiple quarters by transforming delivery governance and rituals.
- Migrated MyGP platform to modern infrastructure with 99.99% uptime and 18% cost savings.
- Reduced platform vulnerabilities by 40% through secure migration and compliance alignment.
- Delivered GPFI platform, reducing onboarding time by 75% and removing manual interventions.
- Built and scaled Payment Orchestration Layer, increasing successful transactions by 22%.
- Automated POL (50%) and MyGP (20%), enabling 3x increase in release frequency.
- Deployed GitHub Copilot to engineering teams, targeting 20–25% developer productivity uplift.
- Improved release reliability and compliance by 30% through DevSecOps practices.
- Spearheaded RFQ processes for vendor onboarding, reducing partner acquisition time by 35%.
- Aligned MyGP roaming experience with business simplification goals, impacting 2.1M+ users.
- Collaborated with C-level executives to align software engineering roadmap with business KPIs.
VP, Regional Technology
Daraz (Alibaba)
03.2022 - 03.2024
- Led regional technology strategy across South Asia, aligning platforms with Alibaba Group’s global vision.
- Directed cross-functional engineering teams and managed multi-million-dollar tech budgets for high-traffic commerce platforms.
- Accelerated product delivery by 35% via Agile and DevOps transformation.
- Scaled high-performing engineering teams and onboarded strategic partners to support rapid growth.
- Collaborated with Alibaba’s global tech teams on data privacy, localization, and platform integration initiatives.
VP, Software Engineering
Portonics Ltd
05.2016 - 02.2022
- Architected one of Bangladesh’s most-used payment gateways, designed to handle millions of secure transactions.
- Delivered high-traffic telecom utility applications (MyGP, MyTM, dtac) across Asia, covering backend, iOS, and Android platforms.
- Led a 60+ member engineering team (Dev, QA, DevOps) to deliver telco, ecommerce, and loyalty platforms at scale.
- Built B2B and B2C ecommerce platform "Shoparu" for a top-tier telco operator, enabling digital commerce growth.
- Implemented CI/CD pipelines and blue-green deployments to enable zero-downtime releases.
- Migrated legacy applications to Docker-based infrastructure, improving scalability and deployment consistency.
- Established 24/7 monitoring and alerting systems, ensuring SLA/SLO adherence and real-time performance visibility.
- Enforced secure development through SonarQube integration, ensuring quality gates at every deployment.
- Played a key role in hiring, mentoring, and scaling Dev, QA, and DevOps teams under Agile methodology.
- Acted as chief architect and technical lead for mission-critical solutions with full ownership of project scope, delivery, and integration
Senior Software Engineer
Jaxara IT Ltd.
10.2011 - 04.2016
- Lead a team of 7 developers and 2 QA and completed 3 successful projects as a team lead.
- Converted a legacy ColdFusion awards site to a Drupal Site using Rest APIs.
- Developed multiple complex sites using Drupal and WordPress CMS.
- Contributed a user roles and capabilities WordPress plugin using by 10k+ users (https://wordpress.org/plugins/user-roles-and-capabilities/)
- Created custom python scripts to analyze Nginx/apache logs and supply metrics to management.
- Implemented guidelines to follow Drupal/WordPress best practices to make development easier.
- Worked extra time with operations team to learn the Operational issues, Client Tickets, software installation in Linux servers, deployment process, Jenkins.
- Activities and responsibilities: Responsible for planning, developing custom applications/ websites using CMS/Framework or Raw PHP script.
- Worked with client's day to day tickets on various projects developed by WordPress or Drupal.
- Design and developed custom Drupal modules and WordPress plugins to cater to complex business logic.
- Manage legacy ColdFusion sites.
- Use issue tracking solutions like Jira and Trello to create and update issues and communicate with internal and external team members.
- Communicate with dev teams of different parts of the world.
- Technologies used: PHP, Python, ColdFusion, MySQL, MSSQL, Drupal, WordPress, Symfony, Apache, Nginx, Angular 1.0, jQuery.
Software Developer
Soft Reklam
06.2009 - 09.2011
- Learn about different Facebook API and developed multiple popular Turkish Facebook applications.
- Create an email parser using IMAP and create a photo gallery website by parsing email.
- Optimized a video website to handle large number of users reduces the load time by 1 seconds.
- Activities and responsibilities: It was a remote work, communicate and collaboration with multiple teams in different country.
- Research and Development to complete assigned task.
- Requirement analysis and estimation.
- Break down requirement into task and security analysis.
- Optimize MySQL Queries.
- Technologies used: PHP, MySQL, Apache, JavaScript, jQuery, Facebook Application.
Software Developer
Wintel/TTBC Ltd
01.2007 - 05.2009
- Developed a WAP site and CMS using PHP/MySQL from scratch used by multiple Telco's in Bangladesh.
- Optimize push/pull based services to onboard clients without changing codes.
- Worked with SMPP protocol.
- Developed J2ME applications for old Symbian OS.
- Activities and responsibilities: It was a remote work, communicate and collaboration with multiple teams in different country.
- Research and Development to complete assigned task.
- Requirement analysis and estimation.
- Optimize MySQL Queries.
- Technologies used: PHP, MySQL, J2ME, HTML, CSS, .Net Framework.
Education
Master of Science - Information And Communication Engineering
Islamic University
Kushtia, Bangladesh 04.2001 -
MBA - Finance
Brac University
Dhaka, Bangladesh 04.2001 -
Timeline
Head of Software Engineering
Grameenphone
03.2024 - Current
VP, Regional Technology
Daraz (Alibaba)
03.2022 - 03.2024
VP, Software Engineering
Portonics Ltd
05.2016 - 02.2022
Senior Software Engineer
Jaxara IT Ltd.
10.2011 - 04.2016
Software Developer
Soft Reklam
06.2009 - 09.2011
Software Developer
Wintel/TTBC Ltd
01.2007 - 05.2009
Master of Science - Information And Communication Engineering
Islamic University
04.2001 -
MBA - Finance
Brac University
04.2001 -
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