Farhan Islam
@farhan.islam
Software · Dhaka, Bangladesh
Backend Engineer — Helping teams ship reliable, scalable software.
Packages
Fixed scope, fixed price — order an outcome, not hours.
Code & architecture review
$400A focused, fixed-scope engagement delivering a clear outcome. Includes a kickoff call, the work itself, and a walkthrough of results.
MVP build sprint
$4,900A focused, fixed-scope engagement delivering a clear outcome. Includes a kickoff call, the work itself, and a walkthrough of results.
Performance & scaling audit
$1,000A focused, fixed-scope engagement delivering a clear outcome. Includes a kickoff call, the work itself, and a walkthrough of results.
About
Farhan Islam is a Backend Engineer with 10+ years of experience helping teams ship reliable, scalable software. Recent engagements have focused on JavaScript, Kubernetes and Microservices. Based in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Farhan works with startups and scale-ups that need senior expertise without a full-time hire.
Problems I solve
• Scaling systems from thousands to millions of requests • Mentoring engineers and raising code quality • Cutting infrastructure cost while improving reliability
Selected work
Real outcomes — proof, not promises.
Re-architected a monolith into services
Cut deploy time 80%Broke a fragile monolith into cleanly-bounded services with CI/CD and automated tests, so the team could ship daily.
Scaled a platform for a traffic spike
5M requests/day, zero downtimeIntroduced caching, queues and horizontal scaling ahead of a major launch.
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