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Hi, I'm Meha Masum, I'm a seasoned software engineer.

I do my part in making the world a better place by making the web open, fun and more useful.

More about me

I'm a programmer and lifelong learner.
I love writing software, and solving real-world problems.
And I am grateful that I get to make a living doing what I love.

During college, I led my team to win five international software competitions.
Every year I still take some time out to participate in top software competitions around the world. Like everyone else, I too have to keep up with the latest trends, and I believe this helps me a lot with that.

Recently, I have been writing open source software to help nonprofit organizations. My collaborative mapping software written for the Jane Goodall Institute won the DocuSign Good Code award.

Professionally, I specialize in building highly scalable SaaS applications.
I consider myself a Jack of all trades and master of a few.
‘Roll up your sleeves and get the job done’ - is my motto.

Things I like
travelling running fish 'n' chips pop music crime thrillers fifa
My interests
devops artificial intelligence open source
I want to work with
web services software architecture site reliability
I prefer not to work with
mobile apps cryptocurrency privacy-invasive tech

Values I hold dear

  • Being kind

    To each other and to ourselves.
    We should not pass out an opportunity to help someone in need.

  • Being honest

    To be truthful and sincere in our words and actions.
    To be open to feedback and to give feedback.

  • Showing humility

    To know, accept, and be who we are while demonstrating modesty about our accomplishments and gifts, admitting mistakes, and valuing others.

  • Showing grit

    To advance despite adversity.
    No whining. No complaining. No excuses.

  • Passing on the knowledge

    To share what we learned with everyone else, free of cost.
    Because it costs a candle nothing to light another candle.

Technical skills

Language
python typescript php java c
Web
react angular django nodejs nextjs ruby-on-rails wordpress scss babel webpack
Database
mysql postgresql mongodb redis
Test
mocha.js chai sinon karma jest pytest phpunit cypress
Mobile
android-sdk react-native
DevOps
aws gcp azure docker kubernetes ansible jenkins elk nagios grafana sentry newrelic
Misc
git tensorflow linux jira
Other skills
agile development test-driven development system design team leadership project management

Projects

Here are some of the pet projects that I worked on over the years.

Version control and collaboration platform for GIS mapping with integrated e-signature workflow

esri arcgis docusign react django celery redis postgresql heroku

A Reddit like mobile utility for sharing road safety issues to draw local authority’s attention

java android php mysql azure

Work experience

Here are some of the companies I worked for.

  • Lead Engineer & Manager

    Worked as a tech lead and manager of seven software engineers that takes care of backend stuff (auth, orders, subscriptions, payments, taxes, invoicing, external integrations, and APIs) in Woo Marketplace.

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    • Took key architectural decisions in terms of system design; facilitated agile methodologies; oversaw team development through coaching, performance evaluations, career guidance.
    • Rewrote the backend to support flexible subscription cycles for marketplace products, transitioning the business from a hard-coded annual subscription model to diverse plans, including monthly and bi-yearly options, driving scalability and adaptability in revenue streams.
    • Integrated diverse payment methods including Card, Google/Apple Pay, PayPal, WooPay, Buy Now Pay Later (via Klarna). Lead the marketplace side of things in making our payment service processor-agnostic, enabling expansion into new geo-locations where our primary payment process is not supported, and establishing backup gateways to ensure business continuity in case of service disruptions.
    • Built several key tools for Woo Support team, including integrating an AI chatbot, automating WordPress.com SSO account creation for guest customers, Zendesk interaction tagging etc, streamlining support processes and improving customer service efficiency.
  • Senior Software Engineer

    Worked as a full-stack engineer in Woo Marketplace.

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    • Implemented multi-currency support with comprehensive price freezing strategies to stabilize product pricing against FX fluctuations.
    • Developed a Salesforce integration streamlining account setup, payment collection, and subscription activation, enabling our Sales team to focus on closing deals while eliminating manual processes.
    • Designed and implemented data validation rules for Hadoop, detecting anomalies in critical business data to enable early problem identification and proactive system reliability measures.
php react wordpress memcached mysql docker ELK newrelic grafana aws circleci

Newscred Inc.

Dhaka, Bangladesh
  • Software Engineer

    Worked as a full-stack engineer on NewsCred’s enterprise marketing management SaaS Welcome.

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    • Led the research, development and deployment of format-agnostic file annotation service that allows clients to mark up uploaded files and allows real-time collaboration. Deployed it in AWS ECS with autoscaling
    • Maintained and developed new features for NewsCred’s publishing integrations including OAuth integrations (i.e., Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, Instagram), RPC and Plugin-based integrations (i.e., WordPress, AEM, Sitecore), WOPI-based integrations (i.e., Microsoft Office for web) etc.
    • Rebuilt NewsCred’s content publishing and social scheduling experience (AngularJS to ReactJS). Identified and resolved server-side performance issues, added monitoring and proactive publishing failure prevention steps. Reduced client-reported bugs by more than 15% in two quarters
    • Built a trial version of the existing software, allowing public signup and metered resource utilizations. Designed the architecture of onboarding experience, implemented social login capabilities into existing SSO architecture which bumped up the number of weekly signups by more than 10%
    • Lead a team of 4 engineers to develop the "Settings as Code" project. It allows clients to easily sync workspace settings such as Workflows, Templates, Labels, etc between different workspaces (often between Staging and Production) and even automate this process via CI jobs.
    • Lead a team of 3 engineers in the "Workflow Simplification" project. The project converted the ever-complex Workflow setup experience to a bare minimum thanks to both UX engineering and backend architecture improvements.
    • Alongside technical contributions, I conducted interviews, trained fresh hires, and led other software engineers in different projects.
node.js react express.js python typescript socket.io oauth2 xml-rpc mocha.js mongodb redis elasticsearch docker AWS jenkins ansible nagios logstash kibana sentry

Codemarshal

Dhaka, Bangladesh
  • Software Engineer

    Worked as a full-stack engineer on numerous client projects.

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    • Developed a web-based gaming environment with ReactJS, Redux and PixiJS, implemented real-time messaging backend from scratch with Django Channels.
    • Led the CORE team in building a REST backend module using DRF in form of reusable Django apps to share across different products which allowed us to bootstrap new projects in a matter of minutes. Built CI pipeline to run tests and publish as a private Python package.
    • Created and maintained a shared ReactJS component library with Webpack, showcased by a style guide app. Added tests & documentation, built CI pipeline testing and publishing as private Node module.
django django-rest-framework django-channels react redux pixi postgresql celery redis elasticsearch gitlab-ci

Robotics Lab, CSE, DU

Dhaka, Bangladesh
  • Research & Development Intern

    Worked as an Intern for the "Robolab" in Dept. of CSE, Univ. of Dhaka during my undergrad years.

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    • Did Machine Learning based R&D for Rupai, a graphically programmable robotics kit (funded by Ministry of Education, Govt. of Bangladesh).
    • Led a team of six people in the same project for building a visual programming interface for robotics kits. Designed the system and was responsible for budget & resource management, documentation and reporting.
    • Worked on both front- and back-end; developed the programming editor, code transfer and transpilation modules.

Kudos

Some nice things my colleagues said about my work.

...I wanted to send a quick message to say thanks for this PR [URL].
It might seem minor, but the high test-to-code ratio was great and useful as a reference to other engineers about what good PRs can look like.
I applied the Cool PRs label to it for easy reference later.

Education

My educational background.

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    My answers on Stack Overflow reached 470k people (as of April 2025).