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Founder & CEO @ AZAI Labs · Technical Project Manager @ Platformz · Sr. Software Engineer @ Kintsugi · QA Consultant · Podcaster · AI Tech Instructor
The person who turns chaos into shipped products. I'm the TPM at Platformz running three client platforms, a Sr. Software Engineer & feature lead at Kintsugi, and I build companies — AZAI Labs ships AI products and augmented AI talent, while AZADEMY teaches engineers to land remote jobs and ace interviews.
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Every team has that person who sees the whole board — who knows which piece is blocked, which dependency is about to bite, and which conversation will unblock three engineers at once. That's the role I was built for.
Today I build companies and run delivery: founder & CEO of AZAI Labs, founder of AZADEMY and Listen2AZA, TPM at Platformz, Sr. Software Engineer at Kintsugi — and I run the Silent Sacrifice Abdus Sattar Foundation in honor of my father. The mission everywhere is the same: turn chaos into shipped products. Here's how the character leveled up:
Arifuzzaman “Antor”
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CLASS: Technical Project Manager · SPEC: Cross-functional team builder
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Run delivery for 3 client platforms at Platformz (FUR4, Rockerz, DMV Raw Feeders) — including a 3P hybrid EDI program across 5 enterprise partners that compressed a 12+ month timeline into ~60 days.
Lead a 30+ person team across engineering, DevOps, design, leads, and marketing — one daily delivery cadence spanning retail, EDI, integration, fulfillment, and internal engineering.
Run the delivery side of Platformz directly with the CEO — roadmap progress, risk register, client-facing status, and the honest version of 'are we on track?'
Risk registers, early warnings, and making the escalation call nobody else wants to make.
Mentored juniors at Mastercard; built and grew teams up to the 30+ person org at Platformz.
Turn customer signal and constraints into a sequenced roadmap — what to build, kill, and ship next.
Flow-based delivery: WIP limits, cycle-time tracking, and blocker triage that kept releases predictable without sprint theater.
Built the QA discipline from scratch — automation frameworks, release gates, and zero-surprise launch days.
SRE practice at Mastercard — chaos engineering sessions, Prometheus + Grafana observability, Terraform-provisioned AWS infrastructure, and incident-response playbooks for critical payment systems.
Postman, REST Assured, GraphQL — plus Magento ↔ QuickBooks/ShipBob/Mailchimp data-sync validation.
JMeter, k6, Locust, LoadRunner, Gatling — wired into nightly CI pipelines.
OWASP ZAP, Burp Suite, and Kali Linux scans baked into release gates.
iOS & Android on real devices — Appium, Xamarin Test Cloud, AWS Device Farm.
Risk-based test plans, coverage strategy, and release gates — manual, smoke, regression, UAT.
Behavior-driven specs that product, QA, and engineering all read the same way.
WCAG-aligned accessibility checks and visual-regression testing (Applitools).
Containerized test execution and pipelines — Jenkins, GitLab CI, Bitbucket, GitHub Actions, AWS.
TypeScript and JavaScript daily; Python and Java for automation and tooling.
Courses, workshops, technical talks, podcast hosting, and event MC — making complex things land.
Shaped roadmaps from customer signal: what to build, what to kill, and what to ship next quarter.
Founder & CEO of AZAI Labs — an AI agents lab shipping practical automation for quality, operations, and decision-making (build with agents, not headcount) — and founder of AZADEMY.
Founder of AZADEMY — 'learning meets earning': practical AI & tech courses, build videos, and real interview sessions engineered to get CS people hired.
Two YouTube channels (AZADEMY, Listen2AZA), podcasting, and developer-facing courses.
Run the SSAS Foundation — scholarships, mentorship, and 60+ Quran students in year one.
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notable builds
A few products I'm proud to have shipped quality into — from an AI Bangla spell checker to civil-registration infrastructure and 5G.
REVE Systems
2022 — Present
AI-powered Bengali grammar & spell checker — detects non-word and real-word errors and auto-suggests corrections. QA Lead.
REVE Systems
2022 — Present
Enterprise system for processing and monitoring customs-duty bond transactions. QA contributor.
Dynamic Solution Innovators
2022
A leader in 5G mmWave technology, founded by former Broadcom pioneers. QA & test planning.
Dynamic Solution Innovators
2022
Clean, affordable energy for DR Congo — quality and test design across the platform.
Grameenphone (via Miaki)
2024 — 2025
Built the complete backend automation framework for MyGP, the app of Bangladesh's largest mobile operator.
Shahjalal University of Science & Technology
2020
Intuitive attendance tracking for the university — real-time insights for a productive learning environment.
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What a week of my work actually looks like — rendered the way I think about it.
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Items shipped per week, last 12 weeks
Most before standup ended ☕
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Six years, eleven roles, seven industries — here's the shape of the journey.
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Freelance jobs · all ★5.0
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Role seniority, 2018 → today
Freelancer → Engineer → Lead → TPM → Founder
Relative depth across disciplines
founded worlds
Build with agents, not headcount.
An AI lab that ships real work — building AI products, delivering AI services, and placing augmented AI talent so teams move faster. Founded 2025 · San Francisco HQ, remote-first from Dhaka. Founder & CEO.
Visit world ↗Learning meets earning.
An academy that teaches CS, AI & technology, freelancing, and how to land remote jobs — plus real interviews with experts on how to give and take technical interviews. Founder.
Visit world ↗Real interviews. Real builds. On camera.
The content arm of AZADEMY on YouTube — AI and tech build videos, plus real interview sessions with engineers showing how technical interviews actually go.
Visit world ↗Stories you can press play on.
An audiobook channel on YouTube — narrated books and stories for people who'd rather listen than scroll. Founder.
Visit world ↗Every father's silent sacrifice. Every child's potential.
A foundation honoring my father, Sheikh Abdus Sattar — scholarships, free mentorship and internships, Quran education, support for struggling families and cancer patients, feeding the hungry, and tree plantation. 60+ Quran students in Ramadan 2025, 60 students mentored in year one.
Visit world ↗academics & community
Shahjalal University of Science and Technology
B.Sc. Engineering — Computer Science & Engineering
Shahid Syed Nazrul Islam College, Mymensingh
Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC), Science · GPA 5.00
2016
B.M. High School, Netrokona
Secondary School Certificate (SSC) · GPA 5.00
2014
B.M. High School, Netrokona
Junior School Certificate (JSC) · GPA 5.00 · Govt. Talent Pool Scholarship
2012
Kaitail Government Primary School, Netrokona
Primary School Certificate (PSC) · Govt. Talent Pool Scholarship
2009
Founder · Telescope Team
2017 — Present
Empowering rural communities through education — teacher training, digital literacy, infrastructure, and scholarships at the grassroots level.
Assistant IT Secretary · Shahjalal University Speakers' Club (SUSC)
University
Helped run the university's flagship public-speaking and debate community.
Academic Coordinator · SUST Science Arena
University
Coordinated academic programs and science outreach on campus.
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Real client reviews from Upwork — 23 jobs completed, every single one rated ★5.0, Top Rated status earned.
Arifuz is now our cooperant with whom we have been working for a long time. He is very reliable, proactive, helps us with his critical thinking and always delivers.
endorsed by clients
academy & podcast
My academy where learning meets earning — CS, AI & tech, freelancing, landing remote jobs, and real interviews with experts on how to give and take technical interviews. Watch on YouTube ↗
founded world · listen2aza
Listen2AZA — I narrate books worth hearing in Bangla, from marketing classics to productivity. Stories and ideas you can press play on. Subscribe on YouTube ↗
hire me
I turn roadmaps into shipped product.
ideal for · Startups scaling past 10 engineers who need execution, not more meetings.
Quality engineering, end to end.
ideal for · Products shipping without a safety net — or QA teams that need direction.
Build with agents, not headcount.
ideal for · Teams that want to automate real work and move faster with confidence.
I teach it, host it, and tell the story.
ideal for · Teams, communities, and events that want an engaging technical voice.
I find the engineers who can actually do the work.
ideal for · Founders and hiring managers who can't afford a bad senior hire.
Pick the channel that suits you — see my gigs and reviews, send a brief, or just say hi. I reply within 24 hours.
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Response time: usually < 24h.
Timezone: Dhaka, Bangladesh.