Backend developer · Regina, SK · Canada

Mofakh
Islam

I build backend services in C# and .NET on Azure at ShiftLab, an AI-powered workforce management startup.

Mostly a public notebook — my scratchpad thoughts, turned into organized notes. Everything I learn gets written up here so I can find it again, refresh it, and so someone else can skip the digging.

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Now

Software Developer, ShiftLab

.NET · Azure Service Bus · SQL Server

Experience

1+ year, full-time backend

plus internships and a TA term in C++

Languages

C#GolangPythonC++TypeScriptSQL

Writing about

.NET Inside C#.NET .NET Web API Docker SQL Networking System design

Platforms

Azure · AWS · Docker

Backend

ASP.NET · EF Core · FastAPI

Data

SQL Server · PostgreSQL

Frontend

React · Redux · React Native

Experience

May 2026 — ongoing

Regina, SK, Canada

ShiftLab

Software Developer · Permanent full-time

.NET · Azure · SQL Server

Developing AI-powered workforce management software for employee scheduling, time tracking and labor optimization.
Building scalable backend services and integrations with C#, .NET, Azure Service Bus, Azure Functions and SQL Server.
Building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions to automate application builds, testing, and deployments across development, staging and production environments.

May 2024 — May 2026

Regina, SK, Canada

SaskTel

Service Technician · Casual part-time

Wire-line · Internet · MAX TV

Received, analyzed, tested, repaired and escalated customer issues across wire-line, internet and TV services.

Jul 2022 — Feb 2023

Dhaka, Bangladesh

Enosis Solutions

Software Engineer · Permanent full-time

.NET · Angular · Azure · EF Core

Contributed to Matrix, a SaaS ad-sales CRM, on backend performance and multi-tenant data handling.
Tuned LINQ queries, SQL indexes and stored procedures for up to 30% faster query execution.
Built Azure Functions (timer, queue, blob, HTTP) automating data syncs, reporting and background work.

Dec 2021 — Feb 2022

Dhaka, Bangladesh

Sohopathi

Software Engineer Intern · Part-time

React Native · Redux · TypeScript

Implemented and optimized user-facing components for an EdTech platform.
Reworked Redux state management, cutting UI glitches and keeping data flow consistent across modules.

Sep 2024 — Dec 2024

Regina, SK, Canada

University of Regina

Laboratory Teaching Assistant · Part-time

C++

Delivered C++ lectures, ran weekly labs, guided programming tasks and graded in-lab assignments.

Projects

AI-Powered Job Matcher

GitHub ↗

Golang · Python · React · PostgreSQL · Docker

Modular monolith on DDD principles for ML-based resume-to-job matching, K-means clustering over job posts.
REST API integrating Python ML services for real-time TF-IDF vectorization and matching.
All services containerized, multi-container deployment managed with Docker Compose.

E-commerce Backend API

GitHub ↗

Golang · PostgreSQL · Docker

REST API with JWT auth, shopping cart and order management.
Concurrent validation with goroutines and a background job processor built on worker pools.
Clean architecture and DDD boundaries; full stack containerized with Compose.

Education & activities

Degrees

M.Sc. Computer Science — Data Science

University of Regina · Sep 2023 – Apr 2025

B.Sc. Computer Science & Engineering

CUET, Chattogram · Mar 2017 – Sep 2022

Also

Published “Friend Recommendation System Based on Heterogeneous Data from Social Network”.
Competitive programming on LeetCode, Codeforces, CodeChef, LightOJ and UVA.
Web Development Coordinator, CUET Computer Club; member of CUET Debating Society.