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Syed Mahfuzul Mazid

Senior Full Stack Developer · Team Leader · Author

Thirteen years, one company, seven production platforms shipped to clients in Germany, the USA and Switzerland. I build things in HealthTech, AI/NLP and E-commerce — and I lead the people who build them with me.

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Guwahati, AssamIndia · IST
13+ yearsSince Aug 2013
Team of 4Led & mentored

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0Years shipping software

0Production platforms

0Operating cost reduced

0Manual labour cut

Chapter I

Every expert was once a beginner. Every professional was once an amateur. Every master was once a disaster.

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"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."

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One company. Four titles. Thirteen years of climbing.

I joined Alegra Labs in August 2013 as a junior developer writing an SVG module for a Facebook app. I never left. Instead the work grew around me — and I grew into it.

2013

Junior Developer

SVG manipulation for Picletta, a Facebook app. Resize, rotate, merge, animate.

2014

Senior Developer

Kamwo Herbs, New York — E-commerce & ERP at scale, plus a Cordova shopping app on Google Play.

2019

Lead Developer

Image recognition, conversational AI, then Interscriber with ZHAW researchers in Switzerland.

2020

Team Leader

Dentapal, Berlin — a multi-portal HealthTech SaaS, and a team of four to build it.

Where the work went

One desk in Guwahati. Four countries downstream.

Chapter II

The code we ship outlives the nights we wrote it in. Somewhere, right now, a server is running something I built years ago — and someone I've never met is depending on it.

— The Author

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"First, solve the problem. Then, write the code."

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Seven platforms, three continents.

Selected case studies. Click any card to open the detail.

HealthTech · Berlin, Germany

Dentapal

Team Leader & Senior Full Stack Developer · Dec 2020 – Present

A multi-portal SaaS platform running dental clinic operations — admin, ZMV/employee and customer portals — with an automated HKP treatment-plan engine at its core.

Automated the HKP workflow with a hybrid rules-and-ML system, cutting dentist labour 40–50%.
Architected the stack: Next.js 15 + React + TypeScript front end, Laravel 12 + MySQL back end, Sanctum auth and role-based access.
Led four developers — architecture, coding standards, mentoring, and migration of legacy Python systems to Laravel/MySQL.
Built the appointment dispatch engine: calendar and list views, conflict-aware scheduling, bulk actions, ISO week/month filters, and an Antrag → Genehmigt vacation workflow.
Integrated Stripe billing, Pipedrive CRM, BuchhaltungsButler accounting, Pusher/Echo real-time, plus a Windows DS-Win desktop connector for Umsatzstatistik sync.
Shipped DentaBot, a FastAPI AI service for chat and proposal generation, with CI/CD, Docker deploys and KPI dashboards over scoped APIs and Server-Sent Events.

Next.js 15ReactTypeScriptLaravel 12 MySQLFastAPIDockerStripePusher

AI / NLP · ZHAW, Switzerland

Interscriber

Lead Developer · May 2020 – Dec 2020

An audio-to-text transcription platform built with researchers at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences, automating interview transcription end to end.

Reduced operating costs 30% by modernising the legacy codebase.
Cut manual labour 40% through pipeline automation.
Engineered Electron + Vue.js on the desktop, Python/Flask/Nginx/PostgreSQL behind REST APIs.
Coordinated a multi-national team, unifying mixed experience levels and aligning database timelines to project milestones.

PythonFlaskElectronVue.js PostgreSQLNginxNLP

Conversational AI

ML Chatbot Platform

Lead Developer · Dec 2019 – May 2020

Conversational agents with intent recognition and entity extraction, droppable into any client website with a snippet of JavaScript.

Designed the agents and backend services in Python, Flask and MySQL.
Delivered scalable REST APIs enabling drop-in integration via JavaScript.
Trained QA teams to build and refine intent models, improving response accuracy.
Authored reusable, cloud-ready code and contributed solutions to client proposals.

PythonFlaskMySQLNLPREST

Computer Vision · Germany

Poster Recognition

Lead Developer · Apr 2019 – Dec 2019

An ML system for nikolaus-spitzer.de that detects and verifies street posters from phone photos, under whatever lighting and angle the real world provides.

Eliminated thousands of hours of manual verification for the client.
Architected data engineering pipelines for ML performance and scale.
Created a product-health framework combining user satisfaction signals with technical fault statistics.

PythonFlaskjQueryImage Processing

CMS · Florida, USA

DigiPro Media CMS

Senior Developer · Apr 2018 – Apr 2019

A multi-module CMS for vacation rental properties, deployed across three production sites with heavy third-party booking integration.

Built the CMS in PHP 7, HTML5 and jQuery on the brisk-coder MVC framework — live on homeownerscollection.com, premierisland.com and portofinoisland.com.
Integrated SOAP and REST APIs (Escapia, IQware, Propay) for booking, payments and channel sync.
Collaborated remotely with 15+ engineers, owning CMS and API modules while leading large deployments.

PHP 7jQuerySOAPRESTMySQL

E-commerce & ERP · New York, USA

Kamwo Herbs

Senior Developer · Jan 2014 – Mar 2018

Four years on a large-scale E-commerce and ERP platform for a Chinese herbal medicine manufacturer — warehousing, shipping and logistics included.

Improved application performance 30% through code optimisation, and client satisfaction 20% through proactive project management.
Shipped a hybrid mobile shopping app (jQuery-mobile + Cordova) live on Google Play.
Launched the acudirect.com practitioner search portal and the online herb guide.

PHP 7MySQLFirebaseCordovajQuery Mobile

Where it started

Picletta

Junior Developer · Aug 2013 – Dec 2013

An SVG manipulation module for a Facebook application — the first thing I ever shipped to production.

Built resize, rotate, merge, animation, embedded YouTube playback and shape conversion in JavaScript and jQuery.
Worked the full SDLC — requirements, design, implementation, release — translating customer needs into use cases.

JavaScriptjQuerySVG

Chapter III

Tools don't make the craftsman — but they reveal him. Thirteen years of choosing, learning, and mastering the right instrument for each problem.

— The Author

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"A craftsman is only as good as his relationship with his tools."

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The toolkit, honestly labelled.

01 Languages

PythonPHPJavaScript ES6+TypeScriptSQLHTML5CSS3

02 Frameworks

LaravelVue.jsNext.js 15ReactFlaskFastAPIElectronCordovajQuery

03 Data

MySQLPostgreSQLFirebase

04 Backend & APIs

RESTSOAPMicroservicesNginxStripePusher / EchoSSESanctum

05 DevOps & Cloud

DockerCI/CDAWSGitSVNLinux

06 AI / ML

NLPChatbotsImage ProcessingML Pipelines

07 Leadership

Team LeadershipAgile / ScrumCode ReviewMentoringCross-Functional CollaborationStakeholder Management

08 Languages spoken

AssameseNative
HindiFull professional
EnglishProfessional
BengaliLimited

"If you want to master something, teach it."

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I also write the manual.

CodeVerse — a six-volume illustrated series that teaches software through a story. Two characters, Ava the curious learner and Max her mentor, travel from a first "Hello World" all the way to distributed systems. 149 chapters, every concept drawn before it is coded, and the whole thing free to read online.

Vol I

Code Quest

A Visual Journey into Programming

11 chapters · In print

Where it begins. Variables as treasure chests, conditions as crossroads — programming taught as an adventure, ending with LLMs and agentic AI.

Vol II

Code Craft

From Concepts to Creation

18 chapters

Real desktop applications with Python, Java and SQL. OOP, data structures, and the evolution from old IDEs to AI-enabled ones.

Vol III

Web Voyage

Sailing the Seas of HTML, CSS & JavaScript

25 chapters

The same feature built in PHP, Flask, Django, React, Vue, Next.js, Swift and Flutter — so the reader sees the pattern, not just one syntax.

Vol IV

AI Odyssey

A Deep Dive into the Minds of Machines

34 chapters

What a neural network actually does, in plain language — through to training and deploying your own model. Less syntax, more understanding.

Vol V

System Architect

Blueprint of the Digital World

25 chapters

One tiny server to planet scale. Load balancers, caches, queues — and how Netflix, WhatsApp and Stripe really do it.

Vol VI

Master's Path

The Complete Software Engineering Mastery

36 chapters · 10 capstones

Compilers, consensus, and the half of senior engineering nobody writes down — escalations, contracts, sprint planning. Ends in a job-ready portfolio.

Read the series ↗ Code Quest on Amazon↗ Paperback↗

"We are what others see reflected in us."

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What the people I worked with say.

Seven LinkedIn recommendations, unedited.

A highly skilled professional with expertise across all areas of software development, he stands out as an inspiring leader and a generous mentor. His willingness to share his knowledge has benefited many, including me. During my previous job, his guidance and support played a crucial role in helping me navigate my projects successfully.

Chinmoy TalukdarPhD Scholar, Gauhati University · NLP & MLDec 2024 · reported directly

He is a great leader, I never heard anything like NOT POSSIBLE. He is always passionate to learn new technologies and has the ability to learn and implement new technologies in a very short period of time. He is always there when he is needed, no matter it's 1 AM or 2 AM. Ability to handle clients. I have learned a lot of things from him, mostly the coding things and I do follow him. He is the most friendly senior in my life.

Santanu BiswasFullstack Developer · Ex-Infosys, LTIMindtreeJun 2018 · worked together

A techie excellent in handling all aspects of software development and above all a leader and a philanthropist who is always ready to share his knowledge with one and all. I learnt a lot from him in a very short span of time which enhanced my knowledge about the software industry drastically.

Gunjan KalitaTech Lead · AWS, MERN, Gen-AI · Ex-SwiggyJun 2018 · reported directly

Syed Mahfuzul Mazid is a great mentor to me. He has helped develop a problem solving mindset. On the technical side, he has helped me develop the front end and back end of websites. He has also helped me develop a chatbot.

Syed Zarif Yasin BasitSenior Information Systems Officer · Indian OilJul 2020 · reported directly

Syed Mahfuzul is one of the most valuable people I have ever met in my last company, very productive person and is a multi-skilled person with vast knowledge and very proactive, self-motivated, and both Experienced and deadline oriented. Highly recommended.

Sushma ShreeReal Estate Investment Accountant · BaringsMay 2022 · same team

I have known Syed more than two years and he has been a great leader with versatile technical abilities to tackle any problem. Good colleague, helpful in times of need and a person with genuine heart and true abilities.

Partha MoutSenior IT ConsultantJul 2023 · different teams

One of the talented PHP and PYTHON language coder that I know and have worked with for various projects. I highly recommend him for any type of mobile App and web development project, specially for e-commerce related project.

Moloy BorahGrowth & Sustainable Marketing · Inbound StrategistSep 2020 · was a client

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."

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Credentials, for the record.

2010 — 2013

MCA, Computer Science

St. Anthony's College, Shillong · CGPA 7.46 / 10

2007 — 2010

BCA, Computer Science

Dibrugarh University · 64%

Awards

Recognition

Anandaram Baruah Award — technology and education contribution · Jigyas Talent Search Examination — academic excellence

Epilogue

The next chapter hasn't been written yet. It starts with a conversation — and maybe, with you.

— The Author

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Let's build something.

Open to remote roles, relocation and visa sponsorship. Fastest way to reach me is email.

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