About
Hi, I'm Shanto.
A self-taught, passionate full-stack software engineer and developer from Nazipur, Patnitala, Naogaon, Rajshahi, Bangladesh. I got here the long way: a cheap laptop, endless curiosity, and a habit of taking things apart to understand how they work. Today I pick any tech the problem needs and build backends, data systems, and AI features for products people rely on every day.
- Based in
- Nazipur, Patnitala, Naogaon, Rajshahi, Bangladesh
- Studied
- Mathematics
- Works on
- Backend · Systems · AI
Shanto Islam
Full-Stack Software Engineer
Full-stack software engineer from Bangladesh
Story
I grew up in Nazipur, Patnitala, in Naogaon district, Rajshahi division, Bangladesh, and studied Mathematics. But the real start came earlier, around fifteen, building things, breaking them, and figuring out why. I never stopped, and most of what I know came from that loop.
I start with the problem, not the stack. If the work needs a tool I don't know, I learn it. What's lasted is quieter: reading before I write, questioning assumptions early, and leaving code the next person can actually follow.
Journey
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2026 Now
Where I am now
Building backend systems and AI features that have to hold up in daily use, and writing about the parts that are easy to get wrong. Still learning in public.
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2025
AI that has to hold up
Retrieval, agents, and MCP built for real use. The interesting work is chunking, permissions, and failure modes: making "sometimes wrong" safe enough to trust.
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2024
Building from zero
Whole products from the ground up: multi-tenant platforms, authentication, payments, and the unglamorous plumbing that keeps everything coherent.
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2023
Owning the hard parts
Leading backend work end to end: architecture, trade-offs, and shipping systems that people depend on every day rather than just on launch day.
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2022
Thinking in systems
Past single features, into how services fit together, where they fail, and how to design for load instead of hoping it holds. Go, queues, and a lot of reading.
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2021
Two educations at once
Mathematics at university, engineering on my own time. Picked up TypeScript and started caring about how code reads, not just whether it runs.
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2020
Pulled toward the backend
Databases, APIs, and how data really moves through a system. This is where the backend stopped being a mystery and started being the part I enjoyed most.
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2018 - 2019
Learning to build
Real programming. JavaScript, logic, and the first projects that actually ran. I broke a lot and fixed more, and that loop taught me faster than anything else.
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2017
Where it started
Fifteen, a secondhand laptop, and a slow connection. HTML and CSS first, then the quiet realization that I could build things, and take them apart to see why they worked.
Say hello
Building something interesting, or stuck on something that should be simpler than it is? I'd like to hear about it. Email me, call +8801745105352, or use the contact form. Prefer a PDF? Download my resume.